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Back in the mid-eighties I was walking from my car to enter a grocery store one afternoon, when I saw a few young women in a parked car who appeared to be waving at me. Not knowing for sure, I gave them a little nod and kept walking. Then one of them jumped out of the car and ran up to me and took hold of my arm. "Well, stuckup!" she said, grinning. "Aren't you even going to say hi?" I was taken aback, but I stopped and said "Hi, but do I know you?" She let go of my arm and leaned forward and studied my eyes for a bit. Then she said, "Oh my god, you're not her!" She turned around and said, "Her eyes are green! She's not her!" to her friends in the car. Then she apologized and returned to the car, and they drove off.
That evening, my three kids, then in high school, individually asked me why I was driving around in a different car that afternoon, and why I didn't acknowledge them when they waved at me from their cars.
When I told them of my experience at the store, they conferred with each other and then walked up to me together and said, in all seriousness, "Mom, you have a doppleganger!" Then my younger son whispered to his sister and brother, "Maybe she's the doppleganger!" Then they all laughed, the little brats.
I wish I'd asked the woman who'd approached me at the store who my lookalike was. Who knows, maybe my lookalike wishes she knew who hers was too.
What an odd thing to happen in a town of fewer than 7,000 people.
I know she wasn't a secret twin sister of mine because I was born in India of Anglo-Indian parentage and ended up living in a small town in South Dakota only by chance.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)People used to tell me they'd seen me driving, when I hadn't been where they said they'd seen me. Then one day I saw a woman with the same hair color as mine driving the same kind of vehicle.
I used to occasionally see someone who looks just like my husband who had died years earlier. That gave me a very weird feeling.
Boxerfan
(2,531 posts)And it is the same type 4 engine I now have in my VW bus. I was reviewing any video I could find.
This one was not a how to just a stream of him working. I could not tell it wasn't me from his movements, bald pattern whatever. If I didn't know I would have sworn it was a video of me. But of course it wasn't.
I had been building motors for years but this was my 1st type 4.
mnhtnbb
(31,320 posts)at the same time in the early '70's. He told me he was walking down in Westwood one day and spotted me coming towards him. He said he was all prepared to make a wise ass remark to his little sister when he suddenly realized just as he was going to pass this other girl on the sidewalk that it wasn't me. Ha. Too bad he didn't embarrass himself. Or, maybe he did and changed his story?
Glamrock
(11,781 posts)Me:
My Doppleganger:
He just died recently. He was in a Finnish Death Metal Band called Children of Odom. RIP
that is uncanny
Glamrock
(11,781 posts)I was looking for an old bands pics online and came across that dude.
rickford66
(5,498 posts)Several different cars going by had people calling "Hey Rolf". Apparently at that time I resembled Rolf Harris.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)GPV
(72,377 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,552 posts)Never ran into him, but a lot of people insist we are the same guy.
Nay
(12,051 posts)man came up to me and said, "Marie! What on earth are you doing here? It's so good to see you!" Me: "uh, I'm not Marie." He jumped back in surprise and said, "Oh, my God, you don't SOUND like Marie....but you look EXACTLY like her. I've known Marie for many years."
So, yes, she's out there.
Ponietz
(2,905 posts)The first time I watched Mikkel Damsgaard play for Denmark I thought, My God, thats me when I was 21!
95% of all modern Europeans descend from seven mitochondrial haplogroups (The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/18/bryan-sykes-obituary).
Raven
(13,872 posts)I was asked to play her in every school/camp play because, when I was young, I had the black hair, blue eyes and white skin. Those days are long gone...except the blue eyes!
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)in my younger years apparently I bore a resemblance to Willie to the extent that people would comment about it quite often.
Years ago we went to a Melissa Etheridge concert in Popejoy Theater in Albuquerque, during the time before the show as we wandered around the lobby we stopped at a beverage kiosk, the server mentioned that group of people swore Willie Nelson was in the house.
I got to the point where I would play along occasionally and start quietly singing "On the road again", of course the lies the difference, Willie can sing.
kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Her grandma. I was outside playing and saw her and we both froze as she looked so much like me. I never see anyone that looks like me. I wish I had taken a picture. I was about 12 years old at the time.
3catwoman3
(23,820 posts)
I looked rather like an aunt or sister, but I have never had anyone come up to me personally because they thought I was someone else.
Pictures of my younger son at 2-3 show much the same face as mine at the same age. He was strikingly blond when he was little (I was not), which was the most noticeable thing about him, so none of us really noticed the carbon copy faces until he was in high school, and only then when I was looking thru a photo album my mother had made of me when I was very young.
My own mother looked so much like her 15 months younger sister that people thought they were twins. She once said hello to herself in a faraway large mirror because she thought it was her sister. Oddly enough, even tho they looked so much alike, she always thought her sister was much prettier.
frogmarch
(12,146 posts)Thanks for posting them!
Now I don't feel so alone.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,848 posts)No, I didn't commit the crime -- a robbery.
It was like I was a model for the police sketch artist! It was a high quality drawing by whomever did it, but it was probably inaccurate of the actual culprit nonetheless.
I used to have random people approach me, saying that I looked exactly like Kenneth Branagh for about a year after "Henry V" was released in theaters in the late-80's. (They were wrong, but there was some resemblance back then.)
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)One night, as I was making the rounds at the plant (I was a security guard), I came across a guy who was the spitting image of my friend Joe. Well, maybe he looked a little less stocky. So I greet him with "Joe?" and he replies "Eric?"
We both looked like friends of ours, and had the same names as them, but we didn't know each other.
-- Mal
ironflange
(7,781 posts)Let's leave it at that. I also resemble Mark O'Meara.
Aristus
(66,097 posts)Mr. Scorpio
(73,626 posts)But that hasnt happened in decades
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,232 posts)Walt Disney. He died of a massive coronary 15 minutes after Disney.