Conference hydra::dejavu

    
    	She might ask her dad if he ever visited that town on "business".
    Out of earshot of her mom, that is! ;>)!
    BillM

    
    Cut that out, Bill.  (;^)
    
    About 20 years ago or so, I worked as a waitress while going to school,
    and many of my customers would come in and say they saw me driving in
    such-and-such a place in the town, however given the times and
    locations, it definitely wasn't me.  Not only did she look like me, 
    but she was driving the exact same car.  I never did meet up with her 
    myself though.
    
    Another time I met a girl who looked like the exact double of one of 
    my younger sisters.  
    
    Cindy

    About the same time frame that Cindy was waitressing, I was pumping gas
    and mechanicing for a living. I was told on more then one occasion that
    I was spoted at a local par 3 gold course that was also a popular
    imbibing joint. (It's now the T. J. Maxx plaza in Tyngsboro, Ma.) It
    seems this fellow was a bit of a Hell raiser and rowdy drinker. he kept
    getting thrown out of the joint for fighting. People swore that it was
    me and I almost got fired for it, when a couple of service station
    customers didn't trust me to wait on them. I had to alibi myself to my
    boss for my whereabouts the night before. The only time I was ever in
    the Par 3 was about 8 or 9 years after this event for a company outing.
    (Not Digital). This was in the daytime and I had nothing to drink. The
    people working the bar must have been different, because no one
    approached me to leave. Still haven't met this fellow and don't really
    want to. I have a cousin who looks a lot like me, but he's a paraplegic
    and couldn't have been this guy.
    
    Doubles or Evil Twins (or Good Twins), I believe that we all have them
    and some of us get to meet them. 
    
    Bright Blessings,
    
    PJ(who is not really the Evil Twin of the pair. nonono I'm not :-) )

    Shame on you Bill  8^)
    
    Yeah, Hazel says she has been accused of ignoring friends in the street
    and driving different cars in places she couldn't possibly have been
    in. It's a real weird situation. Don't know what I would do if I came
    across my double.  Pretty scary to think there is another one of me
    walking about. One is bad enough. ;^)
    
    Gav.........
    

    
    	Hmmmm, this double business might work to my advantage.
    Whenever confronted with allegations of dallying with friends'
    wives......
    			...I'll just say it's my evil double!!
    BillM

    
    	I have often had the experience where people who know me have seen
    me in places I wasn't in. And on occasion complete strangers telling
    me how glad they were to see me again and having to explain to them
    I'm NOT that person. 
    
    	Part of my theory is that some of us have more generic faces or
    body types than others. I've known other folks that are mistaken for
    other people all the time and they're sort of generic looking like
    me. 
    
    	But only on one occasion did I meet somesone that REALLY looked
    like me. 
    

    
    About 15 years ago I was working my way through school driving a
    delivery route. While stopped outside one of the stores I was delivery
    to, a woman exited the store and begin to stare at me. I kept an eye on
    her as she looked at me with a baffled expression on her face. She then
    approached my truck and got up to the door. With the still baffled look
    on her face she told me that I looked just like her son and had been
    curious as to what her son was doing sitting outside this store in a
    huge truck. She said I could pass as his twin.
    
    Another time i was in a bar just up the street from my house and a man
    came up to the table where my friend and I were seated. He looked at me
    and started talking to me as if we were aquainted and proceeds to ask
    if I can get him more of that white stuff some people put up their
    nose. I politely told him that I had'nt a clue as to what he was
    talking about and tried to excuse myself. He did'nt believe me and kept
    badgering me about the dope. I finally lost my tolerance for this and
    rather unpolitely told him to get the f*** out of my face and leave me
    alone. 
    
    There have also been other minor occurences where someone thought I was 
    someone they knew. I sometimes wonder if I go to sleep and night only
    to wake up moments later and lead an alternative life. Maybe thats why
    I feel so sleepy all the time?!...
    
    CERASO
    
    
    

    	We all have a double....and that double has what we don't...no one
    is made fully complete(mentally) and so the double has the other half
    of what you don't...and when a meeting has occured.....ESP.....the
    psychic power is unavoidable.  It's actyally amazing, some might be
    just as sceptical as in UFO's,,, but hey......something beyond words is
    always out there....:-)
    				K.T.

    Is that the same kind of thing as where you have identical twins? I
    think that there is always something a bit weird about identical twins;
    they are always very close and sometimes they don't even have to
    physically speak to each other if they want to say something. It's like
    they have vey close telepathic links or something. I have known several
    pairs of twins over the years and more notably they have all been
    female and they have always struck me as being a bit to weird. It can
    be quite strange talking to one of them thinking all the time if it's
    the right one you are talking to.
    

    This happened to me several Fridays ago up in the LKG cafe.
    An oriental woman kept saying "Hi" and smiling while I was
    building a salad.  Then an oriental man (her husband?) came
    over and asked me if I was Justin's mother [Justin is my
    nephew].  (I had to show him my badge with my name on it.)
    
    Oops, forgot I am an identical twin.  BUT NOT AT WORK (since
    we are never together at work).  By this I mean, when we
    shop together (whatever) and we're walking together, my mind
    knows (from people's reaction/faces), "Oh, this is a twin-thing."
    But I don't think that way at work.
    
    And, YES, people have come up to me and asked me if I am so-and-so,
    BUT THEY AREN'T USING MY TWIN'S NAME.  I tell them I'd like to
    meet this person, especially since my twin and my younger sister could
    pass for triplets.
    
    Summing up being a twin:
    Your best friend lasts your whole life, vacations with you when you
    are a kid, your child-hood memories are full with her, you go to the
    same school, you move together, maybe even gets a job in the
    same company after school.  And when she has a baby, you are "more
    than an Auntie", because genetically we are identical, this child
    could have been yours (exactly/identically) had you met her spouse.
    And without an eye-blink I would and could donate an organ that
    would not be rejected by her or her children.  At family gatherings
    our babies could be picked up by their twin-aunt and be coddled
    and soothed by their look-alike-mommies (we look alike, we sound
    alike, we nuture and enjoy).  As toddlers they would grab their
    twin-aunt leg when returning to "Mom" after exploring a room or new
    situation.  We pat and rub the child without them ever realizing
    they've made a mistake.  My parents and siblings still make 
    mistakes.  I answer to "Karen" as easily as I answer to "Kathy".
    
    A twin is your best friend for your whole life.

    Kathy (Karen?)
    
    Thank you for that fascinating explanation!

    
    There is this gas station down the street and I have
    been going there on and off for years. Well, one day
    this attendant asked me how my dog was. I never had
    a dog. He told me there was this other woman who 
    looked exactly like me, driving exactly the same car,
    who pumped her own gas, but had a dog! Now, I have never
    seen another car like mine, driven by any woman who looked 
    anything like me, who would consider pumping her own gas 
    (I do it myself because I can't stand sloppy fillup jobs). 
    My theory, in my case, is that people like to generalize to 
    help their memory. The reason behind my theory - I am oriental 
    and whenever there is another oriental woman in the group, people 
    will get us mixed up, even if there is hardly any resemblance 
    except for the generic dark hair and dark eyes. It is not easy
    for someone to find (forget meet randomly) an oriental woman 
    as tall as I am (I had trouble finding clothes that fit
    in Asia), in a countryside town in New England, driving
    a performance sports sedan. In my last 15 years or so, I 
    have never met another oriental woman anywhere near I live 
    or work who would drive in such an agressive (maniac) manner to enjoy 
    the car I have, never mind paying money for it! So, it just does 
    not make sense - yes, I know I am generalize also, but I know
    what an oddball I am, thus I think I can half-safely generalize. 
    Of course, if I ever have a chance to meet this other woman ...
                                                        
    
    Eva 

    re:11..............eventually a child will tell the difference between
    who's mom and who's auntie. I don;t agree with letting child be fooled
    by who is who, You should make sure they are made aware of mistaking
    you for mom, you for auntie.  They need to "practice" figuring out who
    is who. If the child comes to you and calls you mom, don't go on as if
    you were mom, immediatley tell the child you are auntie. And tell
    him/her where mom is. They need a choice.
    	$.02

    
    Re.15
    
    Debbie,
    
    Given that you were born so close in time to your 'twin', not only do
    you share Sun signs in the western astrological system (Gemini), but
    you also almost certainly share Ascendants in the Vedic system of
    astrology as well.  
    
    Ascendants in that system happen in two hour windows every day, and 
    Ascendants - not the Sun signs - are the critical factor in that system.  
    So you're even more alike astrologically in that system than people born 
    on the same day. 
    
    Cindy