Gotta Laugh

[TOXIC]

Out fishing on the Rappahonock river here in Virginia and a guy pulls up in a Ranger.  He asks “Is your name Scott”?  I answer “Yes it is”.  I’m looking at the guy because a lot of people know me through the guide service and the fact that I moderate a few Facebook pages and because I never forget a face.  He didn’t look familiar so I ask “Do I know you”?  He then says “Are you Scott Jenkins”?  And I say no.  The guy starts laughing and says what are the odds I know a guy that looks just like you, has the same name as you and runs the exact same boat as you?  We both laughed it off.  
 

The only other time I had some mistaken identity, I was on my buddies 26 foot SeaRay Sundancer on Lake Mendota in Wisconsin and I had a Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits T-shirt on when he stopped for fuel at the marina.  When he came out after going inside to pay, he was laughing and had a marked up paper map in his hands and told me the guys in the marina thought I was Gary Yamamoto and marked out some fishing spots.  ??

[Way2slow]

I was in Home Depot in San Antonio TX, when I lived out there and a guy walks up and says some name and asked how I had been doing since it had been a while since he had seem me.  I just told him " sorry mister but I don't know you and my name is not the one you just said".  He started accusing me of trying to prank him, said he had know me too many years for me to pull that one over on him.  He had known me long enough to know who I am.   Again, I said sorry, but I'm not the guy you know.  Then he started getting upset with me.  I finally had to just walk off and telling him I was not the guy he's thinking I am.  He never did believe me.

 

Another strange happening was when I was living in Italy and the wife and I had gone to Venice for the day so she could do some shopping.   A guy walks over and ask if I was Keith.  It was a guy I had worked with in Georgia before joining the Air Force.  He and his wife was on one of those European tours they had booked and Venice was one of the sites they were visiting.   7,000 miles and billions of people and you meet a guy from your home town.   

[desmobob]

They say everyone has a twin somewhere...

 

One year when I was fishing at Cape Cod, I was mistaken for a noted Cape Cod guide twice in one day.  I was ready to mess with someone and have some fun if it happened again, but it didn't.  ?

 

One summer here in NY, someone approached me in the supermarket and asked me if I was Armenian.  "No..."    The guy told me he know someone back in the old country who looked exactly like me.  About a year later, down in Maryland, another guy asked me the same thing!

 

And one time I pulled into a local park for a friend's birthday party and a bunch of buddies told me someone had just pulled up in a car and looked so much like me that they went over and started talking to him.  They didn't realize it wasn't me until he said something.

 

I wonder if he was Armenian?  ?

[Koz]

A long, long time ago back in college the ladies confused me with Michael J. Fox. One of my buddies caught wind of that and started telling them he was my half brother.

 

Needless to say, there were certain fringe benefits that came along with that story.

[E-rude dude]

I’ve never been mistaken for a professional ??

[Jig Man]

Twice I walked into a bank wearing a hat, trench coat, and sunglasses and was mistaken for a bank robber.  It wasn’t funny at the time.

[Skunkmaster-k]

On 4/30/2021 at 10:51 AM, TOXIC said:

he was laughing and had a marked up paper map in his hands and told me the guys in the marina thought I was Gary Yamamoto and marked out some fishing spots.  ??

Did you fish those spots?

[slonezp]

Met my doppelganger when I was a teenager. I was in a class or a meeting or something and when I walked in people started talking to me like they knew me. About 10 minutes later this guy who could have been my twin walks in.

 

25 years ago when I was thin and had hair, I did well with the women. Being compared to Matt Dillon and Ethan Hawke. Now that I'm fat grey and balding....not so much.

[Deephaven]

In a stocking cap I get mistaken for Aaron Rodgers somewhat regularly.

[TnRiver46]

People always think I’m somebody, I guess I have a standard appearance haha. It’s always something like “oh hey (person x), how ya been?.......... oh I’m so sorry I thought you were somebody else”

 

maybe this means I could lead a life of crime and no one would be able to pick me out of a lineup? Or does it mean everyone would mistakenly pick me out of a lineup?  I have accidentally burned several of my finger prints off while messing with campfires........

[TOXIC]

13 hours ago, Skunkmaster-k said:

Did you fish those spots?

I tried but in a 26 foot sea ray it was a bit difficult.?