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frogmarch

(12,146 posts)
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 10:02 AM Jul 2021

Do you have an unrelated-to-you lookalike?

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.

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Do you have an unrelated-to-you lookalike? (Original Post) frogmarch Jul 2021 OP
Pretty sure I've got one Rorey Jul 2021 #1
Seen a few of friends, relatives over the years-found mine on a motor rebuild video. Boxerfan Jul 2021 #2
My brother claims I had a look a like when we were both at UCLA mnhtnbb Jul 2021 #3
I did Glamrock Jul 2021 #4
wow Skittles Jul 2021 #22
You're telling me! Glamrock Jul 2021 #24
I was sitting in Cathedral Square Christchurch NZ 1970. rickford66 Jul 2021 #5
My dad looked like John Wayne. Often people would come up and ask for autographs or stare. Hoyt Jul 2021 #6
Mary Tyler Moore... secondwind Jul 2021 #7
Me too. Also Karen valentine, both in profile, and Mary in 3/4.Also sometimes Sally Fields GPV Jul 2021 #9
No, I am one of a kind. Sneederbunk Jul 2021 #8
Apparently mine lives just out of town and fixes cars and works at a printing plant. Midnight Writer Jul 2021 #10
Yes! When I was in my 20s I lived in Denver. I was walking on a downtown street when a Nay Jul 2021 #11
He's 40 years younger, but... Ponietz Jul 2021 #12
Snow White... Raven Jul 2021 #13
Willie Nelson, BarbaRosa Jul 2021 #14
There was a girl visiting her grandparents once summer and used to walk to the store with kimbutgar Jul 2021 #15
Very, very occasionally, a patient or parent would remark that... 3catwoman3 Jul 2021 #16
Wow! I love all of your doppleganger stories! frogmarch Jul 2021 #17
I once saw a police sketch that looked just like me! Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2021 #18
Indeed I do. But it gets even stranger... malthaussen Jul 2021 #19
I'm a dead ringer for a royal who has suffered from bad press lately ironflange Jul 2021 #20
I've been told a number of times that I look like Jon Favreau. Aristus Jul 2021 #21
When I was younger, I was told that I did Mr. Scorpio Jul 2021 #23
If I do, I pity the poor guy liberaltrucker Jul 2021 #25
I met him in 1965 in SoCal. More interesting, I knew a guy whose dad was a dead ringer for Floyd R. Turbo Jul 2021 #26

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
1. Pretty sure I've got one
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 10:08 AM
Jul 2021

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)
2. Seen a few of friends, relatives over the years-found mine on a motor rebuild video.
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 10:10 AM
Jul 2021

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)
3. My brother claims I had a look a like when we were both at UCLA
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 10:12 AM
Jul 2021

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)
4. I did
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 10:13 AM
Jul 2021

Me:



My Doppleganger:




He just died recently. He was in a Finnish Death Metal Band called Children of Odom. RIP

rickford66

(5,498 posts)
5. I was sitting in Cathedral Square Christchurch NZ 1970.
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 10:14 AM
Jul 2021

Several different cars going by had people calling "Hey Rolf". Apparently at that time I resembled Rolf Harris.

Midnight Writer

(21,552 posts)
10. Apparently mine lives just out of town and fixes cars and works at a printing plant.
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 10:54 AM
Jul 2021

Never ran into him, but a lot of people insist we are the same guy.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
11. Yes! When I was in my 20s I lived in Denver. I was walking on a downtown street when a
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 11:17 AM
Jul 2021

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)
12. He's 40 years younger, but...
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 11:32 AM
Jul 2021

The first time I watched Mikkel Damsgaard play for Denmark I thought, “My God, that’s 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)
13. Snow White...
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 11:39 AM
Jul 2021

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)
14. Willie Nelson,
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 11:39 AM
Jul 2021

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)
15. There was a girl visiting her grandparents once summer and used to walk to the store with
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 11:41 AM
Jul 2021

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)
16. Very, very occasionally, a patient or parent would remark that...
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 11:45 AM
Jul 2021

…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.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,848 posts)
18. I once saw a police sketch that looked just like me!
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 12:18 PM
Jul 2021

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)
19. Indeed I do. But it gets even stranger...
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 02:30 PM
Jul 2021

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)
20. I'm a dead ringer for a royal who has suffered from bad press lately
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 03:57 PM
Jul 2021

Let's leave it at that. I also resemble Mark O'Meara.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,232 posts)
26. I met him in 1965 in SoCal. More interesting, I knew a guy whose dad was a dead ringer for
Wed Jul 21, 2021, 09:31 PM
Jul 2021

Walt Disney. He died of a massive coronary 15 minutes after Disney.

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