About two months ago, I was at a Seattle Sounders game. We had won in thrilling fashion, and I was proceeding to leave the stadium with friends. Out of the sea of people that were filing out, I heard a shout, "Erwin?!" An old friend who I haven't seen in a while spotted me. Naturally I was caught off guard. We did our customary hello how are you doings, introduced our wives to each other, then parted ways. Carol made a comment to me after it happened, "I think you're easily recognizable." Really? I'm I that recognizable?
Fast-forward a month later, walking near Pike Place Market with Carol. "Erwin?!" someone blurts out in front of me. Caught off guard again, it takes me a good 10 seconds to register that the person in front of me is a friend from all the way back to high school. She just happened to be visiting Seattle. We greeted each other quickly as she was in a hurry, then parted ways.
Come to think of it here have been countless times this has happened to me. These are just the two recent times that come to memory. It makes me wonder though. Am I really that recognizable that people would stop and greet me? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to recognizing people on the the street. 80% of the time if you walked by me, I wouldn't realize it was you walking by, and you would be offended. It could be that I'm preoccupied in my head 80% of the time...
Anyhow, I've also wondered-- I'm sure I have a doppleganger or two out there. Side note: if you are not familiar with the term doppleganger, it is a German term for "double walker," and it's my favorite word to use for someone out there who has a similar likeness to me. I only came to know this term from reading comic books. As I was saying, there must be a doppleganger of me. I've been told several times by people that they met or saw someone that looks just like me. Well, maybe you really did see me, but I just didn't acknowledge you. I doubt that because most people would let me know if I dissed them. Anyway, my point is what if you mistook one of my dopplegangers as me and you yelled out "ERWIN!" It must've happened already right? Has anyone mistakenly called out to someone, only to realize that it wasn't the person you thought? And have any of you done this to any of my dopplegangers? I'm sure it happens because it happened to me! But that will have to be another story for later...
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