Do you have a "twin" out there?

[NewWaveChick1981]

:P I'm not talking about a genetic twin---I'm talking about someone who looks just like you, and people mistake you for that other person (or vice versa) frequently. When I lived in Chapel Hill, LOTS of people would come up to me and call me "Becky", and when I told them I wasn't Becky, they couldn't believe it. Apparently Becks and I looked exactly alike, although I never saw her in the eight years I lived there (and it's not that big a place). I always wondered if ol' Becks had the same thing happen to her... :P

It's happened off and on over the past few years too, and just recently it's been happening a lot. The opthamologist I go to has a nurse who swears her best friend and I could be twins. :) And a woman stopped me at Target thinking I was "Susie".

I'm flattered, but until I meet one or more of these "twins", I'm just gonna go about my business as usual... :rofl:

[LeftyMom]

1. I hope not.

I'd feel bad for the poor girl. :(

[ThomCat]

7. Hoey!

You may not think you're attractive, but you are. So there!

[LeftyMom]

11. Hi hon!

Did you get your pictures yet? I didn't. I say this calls for Synchronized Pouting (tm).

[ThomCat]

14. I haven't seen anything yet either. Synchronized Pouting it is!

:P

Shall we do this on a public thread to get others to join in, or shall we do this through PMs. :7

[LeftyMom]

18. Publicly.

For that matter, I say we increase our demands. :D

[ThomCat]

23. I'll post a thread!

:P

[LeftyMom]

24. I beat you to it.

:D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5672128

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. Shuddup, youse!

:eyes: I won't have you trashing yourself in THIS thread... :P

And there is NOTHING wrong with you having a "twin" if you do... :D

[MissMillie]

2. I have a genetic twin

I imagine that there is a non-genetic twin out there somewhere too

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. I've always heard that everyone has a twin somewhere...

...so I'd say you probably do. :)

[southpaw]

3. I do...

We even have the same first name (Jeff)

Many times I've had strangers start talking to me as if they knew me, only to learn that they thought I was the 'other' Jeff. One guy wouldn't take my word that I was not who he thought I was. I literally had to show him my driver's license.

One time, me and the other Jeff walked into a room full of people who knew me. Shocked silence.

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. That's wild!

:hi: And to even have the same first name... :) I'll bet you DID freak them out being in the same room! :rofl:

[azmouse]

4. I have one!

She shops at the same grocery store I do. I've been mistaken for her many times. Once when I went in the cashier asked me why I wasn't at school. I asked why I should be at school. She said... well, aren't you a teacher? Shouldn't you be teaching today? When I told her she had me confused with someone else, she actually walked up to me and looked right in my face to be sure I wasn't who she thought I was. It just cracked me up.
Another time a cashier asked where my daughters were. I don't have children so I knew she had me confused with my 'twin' again.
I hope my 'twin' doesn't ever commit a crime. I might be blamed!! LOL

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. I know how you feel...

:) I'm glad ol' Becky never did anything bad (at least that I know of!)... :rofl:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. three...two of whom i dated

yup i am narcissistic

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. LOL...

:rofl: :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

44. Hey, was one of them named Ash?

Because my ex-gf had an ex-gf named Ash who looked like you and moved to NYC.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

49. nope...they were both hispanic

and the third one whom i did not sleep with is in india

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

50. Okay, well now you know you have a 4th twin out there.

She's Indian, bisexual and she presumably still lives in Manhattan.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

51. hmmm.....

ohh dear....

trouble could be had!

[ThomCat]

13. I have been told several times

that there is a PBS announcer on the air up in Buffalo who is my identical twin. We apparently look the same, dress in the same style, and even sound similar. He doesn't walk with a cane or crutches though.

I rarely watch TV, and I don't live in Buffalo anymore, so I have never seen him. But my friends in Buffalo assure me that it's freaky to watch him.

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. Geez, I bet that is weird for them...

:P :hi: Just keep an eye on that guy and make sure he doesn't do something bad you'll get blamed for... :P

[billyskank]

15. I saw one in a newspaper photograph once

but I don't know who he is.

[NewWaveChick1981]

28. Hiya, billy!

:* :hi:

[billyskank]

38. Hiya Chicka!

:*

:loveya:

:hug:

:D

:hi:

[ohiosmith]

17. Yes. Yes I do. And I am fed up with him getting all the attention and

action that is rightfully mine.

[NewWaveChick1981]

29. Tell him to stop that...

:rofl: :hi: Yeah, right... :P

[Road Scholar]

19. People kept asking me if I were this certain person so I looked

him up. Wow! I don't think they were complimenting me.
:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
Not really. lol He looked normal to me.

[NewWaveChick1981]

32. ...

:hi: :*

[ZombieNixon]

20. Not as far I as know...

:shrug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. Don't be surprised if it happens one day...

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. When I was in the I.C.U. last year my respiratory therapist told

me I looked just like her best friend. So much so that she made it her mission to save me. Uhh...don't they normally make that their mission? :scared:

[NewWaveChick1981]

34. I thought that's what they were there for...

:P :rofl:

[ScreamingMeemie]

48. Me too...

:scared: Apparently, not so much. ;)

[graywarrior]

22. This is what I get..."you look just like......" and then they can't

remember who it is I look like. Everyone knows me, but no one knows how they know me.

[NewWaveChick1981]

35. Strange...

:yoiks:

[LiberalHeart]

25. Yes, but...

I was stopped by people several times who thought I was another woman. All called me by the same first name; finally I asked someone for the last name -- then years later I met the owner of that name and found out she'd been mistaken for me, too. Neither of us could see the resemblance.

She died years after we met, then one night I was in line at a restaurant waiting for a table. The woman in front of us turned to speak to the man I was with -- an old pal of hers -- and when she saw me, her face went pale. She stopped mid-sentence. We were introduced at the point and I recognized the name as belonging to the dead woman's mother. I told her I knew what she was thinking; she had tears in her eyes and nodded. No explanations needed.

[Jokerman]

26. It appears that I do...and he's famous.

I started getting my hair cut a slightly different way a couple of months ago and I had two strangers in the span of a week come up and tell me I look just like some guy named Simon on American Idol. I rarely watch TV and I avoid "reality" programs like the plague so I had no idea who they were talking about.

One woman actually got mad at me because she couldn't accept the fact that I didn't know this guy.

[datasuspect]

27. i always get "don't i know you?"

"i know you from somewhere." or "you look like a cop."

[reyd reid reed]

30. I hope not

for their sake.

:eyes:

[ThomCat]

37. Oh, not you too?

What is it with gorgeous women being a self deprecating?

:hug:

[buddhamama]

31. i have heard of people having 'twins'

but i haven't seen or experienced this phenomenon myself.

[ghostsofgiants]

36. A friend of mine who lives in Halifax said she saw my twin a few days ago.

He even had dreads. Don't think he had glasses though.

[Rambis]

39. someone stopped me the other day

In our local ice cream shop (yes I long to be jabba the huts twin) and said excuse me...
I thought you were my brother from Arizona and I couldn't figure out why you hadn't called me if you were in Iowa etc etc. His wife said it was unreal. I told him if his brother ever came to town I would like to meet him. He knew which house I live in and he said he would have to bring his brother over the next time he visited. Poor bastard!

[Roon]

40. It used to happen to me all the time

Hasn't happened in 15 years or so. But I would have people come up to me and start talking to me like they know me. Makes me want to meet the person they mistook me for. That would be really cool.

[sakabatou]

41. Yes

He lives in Canada and was born 5 min after me. He looks like my best friend. And he has the same name as me!

[Fox Mulder]

42. I have an identical twin brother...but as far as a "twin"...

No, not that I know of.

[hfojvt]

43. I am often mistaken for

Quasimodo. I keep telling people I am Ken the Monster.

My SiL was saying that I look like Steve Nash, not exactly like, but like. Which figures because I think he is very ugly.

[Guy Fawkes]

45. I passed some dude on the street (a few weeks ago)...

who looked a lot like me. It was surprising- we could've been brothers. He didn't stop, and neither did I.

[RevolutionaryActs]

46. I've never had anything like that happen to me.

My mom has though. Some good friends of ours thought their bartender in Hawaii could have been my moms twin, and not that long ago someone at the grocery store thought my mom was someone else. :shrug:

[Mutley]

47. I'm told I look like someone

quite frequently. Almost everyone I meet tells me I look like someone they know. :eyes:


:P