Ever meet someone and felt like you have seen them or met them before?
Was it me?
It doesn’t matter where I go people ask me where they’ve seen me before (I’d love to say it’s because of my highly popular and respected social media presence, but alas…)
It happens so often I’ve got a stock standard reply at the read “No, but you aren’t the first to be mistaken. I must just have a familiar face.”
What on earth is it about that seems so familiar?
Perhaps it’s my eyes? But they are just a nondescript baby shit brown (formula fed). Surely those unkempt eyebrows would be recognisable anywhere?
Nose? I think it’s a rather cute nose but I’m slightly bias, it being mine and all.
Or my mouth? Usually smiling, perhaps showing slightly crooked front teeth. Sometimes scowling (if I’m in the presence of the menagerie). Often hidden by a takeaway coffee cup.
It certainly can’t be my hair as that has been every style and colour imaginable!
Or maybe it’s just ME!
My social dysfunction lends itself to overfamiliarity when I’m nervous or in an awkward situation. My lack of filter means I will say whatever pops into my head.
“Love those shoes!”
“How’s your day? Mine’s been crap”
“Can I leave my child/children/husband here with you?”
Or worse still, I’ll make a bad and totally inappropriate joke.
What can I say, it’s a gift.
Whatever it is that makes me so familiar, all in all it’s not a bad thing. It’s a great icebreaker. However, sometimes I feel like I’m in that movie “Sliding Doors” where Gwenyth Paltrow has an alternate self in a parallel reality.
I just hope alternate Née is living it up and giving good face. It is mine, after all!
Do you ever get mistaken for someone else? What do you think people find so familiar about me?
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Great post! You must have a warmness that people recognise. I wish I had baby shit coloured eyes. Mine are sort of bland khaki. Have a great day. Rachel x
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Thanks Rach! BTW khaki is much more fashionable than baby shit – trust me ;P
Classic! I totally did this when me met!! But I have the problem of remembering every person I have ever met or seen, (or walked past on the street) in my whole life, so if someone looks familiar I’m fairly sure I’ve seen them somewhere!
In any case, having such a familiar face is a great way to break the ice when meeting new people!!
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I totally thought of you when I wrote this post Gill!! You were actually the last person who said this to me
Oh no Nee! You have slipped from the first #IBOT post linker to third! What’s going on?
I used to get the old don’t I know you from somewhere in my younger days. Being the hermit that I am now though it doesn’t much.
Fairy wishes and butterfly kisses #teamIBOT
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I know Rhi! I was devastated!! I blame the kids being sick – I was certainly up early enough to get in first!! x
You have a warm smile and a classically pretty face… maybe that’s what makes people think they recognise you? It’s a good ice-breaker in any case. People feel like they already know you!
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Thanks Misha! I didn’t write this post to get compliments but golly gosh it’s turned out to be good for the ole ego! xx
I think you look like an actress!! Can’t pinpoint the name though but the “well-known” face is there! And of course you have a beautiful smile… So that’s what draws people towards you perhaps?
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You are an absolute sweetheart! Way to make a girl feel spesh xx
Umm Nee, are you sure you aren’t me? Ok, you don’t look anything like me (luckily for you
) and I prefer chocolate brown for my eye colour… But those lines you use on others? I’m positive I’ve used them all…more than once. Oops! x
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ooh I probably could get away with chocolate brown – especially if we were talking Lindt balls
I’m happy to be you if I get your Doc Martin collection!
I don’t get it often, but I have had a couple of times where people have told me I’m the “spitting image” of someone, which 1. is gross. what does spitting have to do with it? and 2. I know how they feel, I have seen people who are “spitting images” too, and you can’t help but think of them as THAT person, not who they really are….IYKWIM…
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Yes, know what you mean! An old boss used to think I looked like Corrine Grant and so then used to laugh OTT at any jokes I made. Apparently looking like someone makes you BE them
I don’t get the “spitting image” thing either!
It’s because you look like Justine Clarke of Play School fame. I always thought you looked like someone I knew and I’ve been meaning to tell you for ages. Just don’t break out in song at the local shopping centre or you’ll have all the kids swarming around you! LOL
Anne xx
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Oh gawd! Definitely don’t need more kids around me but I’m quite comfortable in the knowledge that my singing will have the opposite effect
The lady at the Coles deli addresses me weekly as one of the teachers at her child’s primary school. Every time, I go to correct her just as she realises she’s mistaken me! I must find this teacher. Maybe my doppelganger lives just around the corner?
I think your profile pic looks like Renee Zellweger, myself!
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That is exactly what I thought the first time I saw the profile pic as well MsMandie
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Renee Zellweger I can certainly live with! Although I think I’m more in the league of Bridget Jones
You have that warm friendly and comforting face (like the nice teacher at school) that every trusts and feels they have known for years in an instant. It’s not a bad thing I dont think even though I’m sure it does get annoying
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aww thanks Kell! Definitely not a bad thing at all!!
Yes Justine Clarke! I can see that!
Also the Renee Zellweger similarity is spot on.
I think it’s funny how you see someone and it really bugs you cause you know them from somewhere, but can’t think where, then it turns out they work at Kmart or somewhere.
Jim Oin has a really familiar face. He also looks like Rhys from play school and a guy I went to school with.
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lol well I can 100% guarantee you haven’t seen me working in K-Mart! I might be in the next Bridget Jones movie though
nope! nope I haven’t seen you before.. and you don’t look like someone I would know.. but then over the interweb is a bit different from real life!!
I have one of those faces too.. people look at me as if they know me and i have no idea who they are..
When I was 7 my dad was in hospital and a doctor mistook me for his girlfriend’s daughter. (was a bit awkward when my mum came down the hall looking for me).
When I was 17 my eye doctor said I was the splitting image of his daughter.
When I was 20 some random girl in the pub sweared that I was the checkout chick at some supermarket (I was not.) She was adement that I was.. (she was also a lil drunk).
I say ride with it and say you were on some big tv show like Friends or Melrose Place!
get them thinking!! haha
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Perhaps you are right – maybe I should be capitalising on my familiar face ;P
I think it’s because your face is so warm and friendly
People not so much mistake me for someone else, but they tell me I remind them of someone they know. That always gets me a little worried at first because well, I don’t know if they actually like that person !
I’d much rather have it your way
hahaha I’d feel apprehensive as well! There’s my self-inflated ego at work – didn’t occur to me that having met me before could be a bad thing! I might change my line to include something like “Yes, we have met before, as long as your impression of me was favourable!!”
Sorry, but it’s totally Justine Clarke!!! I have never been mistaken for anyone, but people often don’t remember they have met me, so I must have the opposite type of face – forgettable
Wow, this Justine Clarke comparison is a new one! Having a forgettable face could be a good thing if you were to do something bad – easy to blame someone else
Oh yes, totally Justine. Sing us a song?
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Sing first! haha.
In around 1995 I got told I looked like “the ugly girl off Strictly Ballroom” – and no, not when she turned into the beautiful swan either!
Some people are just bloody charming aren’t they??
Having red hair I always seem to be mistaken for somebody’s cousin’s wife…who also has red hair….
Or Nicole Kidman….(I wish!!!)
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oooh! Now being called a Nicole Kidman look-alike would be nice!
How cool that so many people recognise you – or think they recognise you ! Clearly you have a very memorable face – be proud of it !!!
Hope you have had a great weekend.
Me
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I guess I should be huh? I just figured it was because I was a plain Jane ;P x
You actually look like Justine Clark in one of those photos. Regardless you look like you and a very gorgeous you at that. happy Mothers Day lovely xxx
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Ok I am trying for the third time to leave a comment now stupid frigging reader. I think you look like Justine Clark in one of those photos above. Whoever you look like, you look like a gorgeous woman called Née
Happy Mothers Day Hun xxx
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I think you happen to look like a pretty gorgeous chick called Nee – thought I can see a little Justine Clark in one of those photos.
I just found out none of my comments for at least a month have been showing up on any wordpress blog. I just wanted you too know I have been visitng hun and I hope I have fixed the problem now.
Hope you had a wonderful Mothers Day lovely xxx
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You are the sweetest thing. I read every single one of your posts but hardly ever get the chance to comment so I guess I have no choice but to forgive you
xxxx