Mistaken identity
A now-familiar scenario when you get to eat dinner at a fast food resto or in a mall’s food court:
a) some teenaged guy/girl approaches, gives you a card, asking if you could buy his/her supply of dried mangoes so that he could support his studies; or
b) some teenaged guy/girl approaches, gives you a card, asking you for money so that he could buy himself and his family something to eat (which most of the time isn’t true, because the next minute, you’ll see him/her in the nearest arcade).
Now, here’s a not-so-likely-to-happen-to-us scenario, which my SO and I actually experienced last night while eating dinner:
SO and I enjoy our hot plate meal. In the middle of eating while conversing (and vice versa), a geeky dude (complete with eyeglasses and a textbook at hand) approaches us. Of course, yours truly will think of those oh-so-familiar scenarios mentioned above.
To my surprise (and to my SO’s too), he asked my SO if he was the guy he saw in a certain episode of the Probe Team where they featured some Pinoy artists.
"Kayo ba yung nagdo-drawing, yung taga-Fine Arts…?" he goes.
Well, he got two out of three right. My SO draws (and oh so well, mind you), he graduated from Fine Arts, but he never appeared in an episode of the Probe Team.
After about three seconds of staring at each other my SO looked at the dude, just laughed it off and told the guy he wasn’t whom he thought he was. The guy then apologized and went off. We continued to eat dinner.
It was one of the oddest things that could happen… someone mistaking you for someone more famous than you. Ibig bang sabihin, mukhang artistahin ang SO ko? Now I’m curious about the Probe Team episode the dude was talking about.
Hmm, here’s something that doesn’t happen everyday.
