Posted on 12/11/2021 2:43:33 PM PST by workerbee
My mom and dad confused me with my sister a lot and we don’t look alike.
When my dad got angry he mixed us all up, boys and girls.
Finally, he would yell, “you, get over here.” I learned it was just best to answer to the first name he called if he was looking at me.
Ouch!
I had at least 3 different co-workers and immediate supervisors call me Larry on multiple occasions. We had worked the same hours, but mostly on opposite days.
My response was usually “My name is Fred, but I can see why you are confused, we look so much alike.”
Larry was black, I’m white.
Then we both started having fun with it.
The only thing we could conclude was that we had similar sounding voices, an easy going attitude, and a “you can leave us alone” work ethic.
If I worked at that college, I would have been fired too.
I’m terrible with names. I can work with someone for weeks and still forget their name or call them someone else’s name.
The irony of being late and CPT. Sometimes they right themselves
When I taught in university, I never called the students by name (except when handing back tests) because I didn’t spend time to learn the names. So no chance for an error like this.
Reminds of that scene in the movie "Forrest Gump", when Lieutenant Dan says "You guys must be twins.", and the black guy and white guy stare at each other for a while and then say "No...". That's some funny stuff. People often call me by the wrong name, I just let it go; some never got my name right over 30 years, I don't care.
The Loving Spoonful had a song which dealt with exactly this situation.
A man had two horses and could never tell them apart.
He cut the tail off one of them but it grew back.
He cut the mane off one of them but it grew back.
Finally, he decided to measure them. That's when he realized that the black horse was three inches taller than the white horse.
I can sympathize ... I couldn’t tell the Smollett attackers (employees) apart.
Did you ever have to make up your mind?
Oh my Gosh... Fired for mixing up two blacks? Was one a Hard leftist and the other a Marxist? 🤓
I had a professor call me by the wrong name all the time because I looked similar to another student. I was never offended.
If you want to find out who holds power over you find out who you are not allowed to offend.
Well he found out who has the power but tough way to learn.
Why apologize at all? People make that kind of mistake all the time. BFD.
Pretty funny. In a disturbing way.
But that is a real race-bait headline given how the story reads, if you read it to the end.
I did that once. Solution- I dated her! Identical redheaded twin.
Old Chinese saying: Doubt your pleasure, double your fun, take out two women instead of one!
Vito Corleone
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