Tell us about mistaken identity incidents. I once was getting picked up at a mall in Montreal by

[applegrove]

my twin brother. The car pulled up. I got in and put on my seat belt, then relaxed. When I turned to talk to my brother there was a young black guy sitting in the driver's seat laughing his head off. He laughed even harder when I told him I was expecting my twin brother. LOL!

[NYC_SKP]

1. At a Peter Gabriel Concert at the UC Berkeley Greek Theater...

And was sitting next to a very attractive youngster with a sort of Short and Sassy cut, (remember Dorothy Hamill?).

There was some knee play, but not conversation, and at the intermission I followed them to get a soda and made some small talk beginning with "Hi what's your name?."

The name was a giveaway, he wasn't the girl of my dreams after all.

The show on the other hand was great.

[applegrove]

2. LOL! I once walked up behind a friend of mine on the way to a party and put my arm around her.

Turned out it was some other girl from highschool. I was so embarrassed.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Actually, just yesterday at history Mission San Jose....

with my girlfriend and wandering around, thinking it was just her and me, I very nearly started to put my arm around a different woman who had slipped into the room where I was, but I noticed the sweater was wrong!

I was just reading about someone who left a store holding hands with the wrong child and didn't notice until they were out in the parking lot.

Scary!

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. After being gone for almost 10 years, I moved back to my hometown and got a job as...

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... night manager of a hot live rock bar/club. I was shutting everything down and my GF (one of the
waitresses) was waiting for me in her car. I had ridden my motorcycle to work and the lighting system
had gone out -- I was going to ride behind her to get it home. When I got it out of its shed, she said
the police had just driven through the parking lot and seemed to be checking her out. She was SURE
they were going to be back. I put the bike away, deciding to pick it up the next day.
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Sure enough, the car returned. It was one cop by herself and she asked what we were doing. I told
her (without the bike details) and she asked for some id. The only thing I could find in my pockets
and or wallet was a checkbook. She checked it out, thanked me and left.
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We got about 2 miles away and she lights 'em up behind us. I got out of the car (smalltown Michigan --
this was not a real no-no in those days) and 3 or 4 police cars slammed into the lot and the cops all
jumped out yelling with shotguns pointing directly at me.
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I can tell you that a shotgun pointed directly at you in anger/fear (let alone 3 or 4 of them) looks to
have the bore of an 8-inch naval gun. I was surprised (and kinda impressed) to find later that I had
not shit myself.
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I (very slowly and deliberately) checked my wallet again and found an old military ID that I had
missed the first time -- and it had my SS# (in those days used also as your military serial number).
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She thanked me and explained (as the others went away) that there was someone with my same
name (it's not a common one at all) who was wanted for armed bank robbery elsewhere in Michigan.
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I also have this generic biker/hippie face and I used to get mistaken for someone else all the time
(even getting passionately kissed twice -- and both times were enjoyable experiences). I was always
certain that sooner or later someone would mistake me for someone they hated and spin me around
on my barstool and deck me before making sure who I actually was. Never happened though.
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[applegrove]

5. I went to University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I had a clones everywhere in NS. People

kept telling me I looked exactly like someone they knew...and it made sense because my grandmothers and one grandfather were all from NS and I was from that familiar Scottish/German stock.

[Ikonoklast]

6. So....

...how much did you get in the bank haul?

[raccoon]

16. Ever think of seeing an image consultant? nt

[OriginalGeek]

7. Once my (then) girlfriend (now wife) and I cut classes

to rent a movie and watch it at her house. So we are standing next to each other in this little neighborhood video store staring at the wall of videos and I reach over start rubbing her bottom - for like a good 30 seconds before I hear behind me "Hey! Get your hand off her butt!" and I turn and see it was not my girl after all - mine had wandered off to a different section and this other lady slid into her spot while I must have been looking the other way.

I immediately started apologizing profusely and the other lady just giggled and aid "oh, it's all right..."...however I found out shortly thereafter that it was most certainly not all right to everyone.

but she forgave me and this weekend we will be celebrating our 26th anniversary.

[Denninmi]

8. I always get asked in stores to assist customers.

WTF? Yes, I used to work in retail, years ago, so I'm no stranger to it. But I am minding my own business, shopping, pushing a cart, etc., and people walk up to me and want assistance. Sometimes it dawns on them I'm not an employee of the store. Sometimes I have to say "I don't work here." I have to confess, more than once, I said it with some attitude, because it pisses me off.

The only reason I can think of is that, in the fall and winter, I rarely wear a coat unless it's bitterly cold, sub-arctic temperatures, because they bother me when I drive, and I think people see me without a coat, unlike the rest of the shoppers, so assume I must be an employee.

But I've even had some dumb-ass bother me when I was wearing a dress shirt and tie -- at Home Depot -- don't all of the Home Depot employees wear a shirt and tie while stocking the PVC pipes?

[applegrove]

9. I once rode an elevator with a manager of a department store who looked me up and down

in judgement of me and then asked me if I wanted a job. I've worked retail too. I guess she was desperate.

[mentalsolstice]

19. I've learned to never wear a red shirt to shop @ Target! nt

[marzipanni]

21. Several years ago my teenage son and I laughed at the idea

of a large group of people descending on Target wearing red shirts and khaki pants. I see, on YouTube,
some teenagers did that, but someone commented they needed more than 35 pranksters, and suggested that they
watch this Improv Everywhere prank at Best Buy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_217640&feature=iv&src_vid=utkkXCF8ZVc&v=KgUIbPfhSuo

[Generic Brad]

10. A young girl thought I was a mannequin at Forever 21 last month

I am a chuncky middle aged male. I have a face, hair, and fingers like most other people. I do not in any way resemble the pencil thin dressing dolls in that store - their's are faceless and all shiny gray; their hands look like mittens.

I was waiting for my daughter while she tried on clothes in the dressing room. I was standing still, simply waiting because there is nothing in that store that appeals to my demographic. This young woman came up to me and said "Why are you here? You don't belong here. That is just so wrong". At which point I looked down at her and asked, "Are you talking to me?" "Oh, my God!" she shouted in embarrassment. "I thought you were a dummy. I am so sorry. I'm....God," she stammered and abruptly left the store.

That was one of the best laughs I have had this summer.

[applegrove]

11. LOL

[Kaleva]

12. I was in my military uniform at an airport when one elderly lady wanted me to carry her bags

Back then, the dress uniform for enlisted looked like the one in the photo below:

[frogmarch]

13. Mr. froggy and I

went together to a hardware store, and after I’d bought what I’d come for, I stepped outside the store to wait for him. I'd seen him walk toward the register as I was leaving the store, so I figured he be the next person to exit. Presently I heard the door open behind me, and without looking behind me to make sure it was Mr. froggy, I said, “Feel how firm my butt is! All those uphill walks have done me good.” No response. “No one’s watching, C’mon, feel my butt!” I heard the door open again and turned around. This time it was Mr. froggy. The other guy broke into laughter, and he never did feel my butt.

[applegrove]

14. LOL!

[Shankapotomus]

15. Once got in an unlocked car that

wasn't mine in a Best Buy parking lot in Manalapan, N.J. People need to lock their cars.

[cliffordu]

17. Last night at a Trivia contest the MC

stopped mid sentence while staring at me and said

"Is your fucking name Henry Rollins???"

[rustydog]

18. I once was knocked down in a city park and the guy straddled me,

was about to beat the shit out of me for assaulting his kid borther.
his brother came up, looked at me and said "It looks like him, but he is skinnier, it is not him!"

Lucky me.

[fizzgig]

20. i was walking through the grocery store one night when a woman ran up and hugged me

she'd thought i was a good friend of hers and was rather embarrassed. i wasn't too bothered, i got a bit of a laugh out of it.

a friend of mine told me she saw my doppleganger at the grocery store one night. same black leather jacket, black chuck taylors, blue knit cap. my friend said she didn't think it was me, but couldn't be sure until she saw that the woman had hair down to the middle of her back rather than very short hair like mine.