All You People Look Alike
I have a doppelganger. I've never seen him/her/it, but it occasionally happens that people I don't know think they know me. Today, for example, at the farmer's market, a woman smiled, waved and hurried over to Gentleman Caller and me, then passed us right by. I turned around, and no one was behind us. She had stopped and was looking at us intently. Then we walked over to the pork guy and a woman offered us another pamphlet. I was confused because we hadn't picked up a pamphlet, and GC said he thought we probably had one at home. She answered "That's why I said another. I know you already have one." We don't have one of their pamphlets; if we ever had one, we would have picked it up last summer. While we do make an attractive couple, there's no way she would have remembered us. Weird, but that's not the end of it. In the grocery store later in the day, a kid latched onto my shopping cart and stared up at me, his mother calling and coaxing him to leave me alone. Then, in the produce aisle, a woman passing me stopped and waved in my face, smiling at me. I looked at her blankly. Either she was a very friendly stranger or she was enthusiastically greeting the sliced mushrooms behind me.
This has happened to me before, but it was at college and the doppelganger was eventually identified. It seems she has followed me to MO, or there's a new one. Either that, or I got really drunk last night and made lots of new friends. I'm pretty sure that's not it.
Dinner last night: We ate at Classy’s. I had spaghetti carbonara with eggs, peas, bacon and cheese; Gentleman Caller had coconut cod with some sort of rice and veggies. Mine was better.