Day of the Doppelgangers

[abracanabra]

So, I have some trouble telling people apart. It's a standing joke at our house that I think "all white people look alike" (I have this problem slightly less with people whose skin tone has a wider range). I frequently confuse those around me when I try to identify which movies I've seen actors in--almost always I agglomerate a couple of actors.

However! Today it's not just me. It really is the Day of the Doppelgangers.

This morning at Spyhouse, I saw what I first thought was a good friend. fayde assured me that it was not. I am still not wholly convinced.







And then in the skyway doing a courier run, I saw my mother-in-law. Ten years younger, 30 pounds lighter, but the resemblance was uncanny. I stopped and stared. It rather disconcerted her, I'm afraid.

...I wonder what they're here for?

Comments

[gunn.livejournal.com]

That's actively upsetting. She has my nose, my concerned/focused brow, my weak chin, and my hoop earrings.

[chadvalentine.livejournal.com]

Odd--I don't think she looks anything like Gunn. She does look somewhat familiar however.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I'm at the age when almost everyone looks a little familiar to me, because I have encountered soooo many people in all these years.

When our kids were in the lower grades, J and I often had trouble telling apart the white kids in their classes; they really did all look alike to us.

[scathach.livejournal.com]

That's just eerie.