My eldest daughter called me today and left a phone message to tell me that she spied someone who looked just like me. The guy was wearing sandals so it was a give-away that it wasn't me. My darling wife reported seeing the spitting image of me recently somewhere in town complete with leather jacket and baseball cap. Her best friend reported seeing a guy on TV who looked exactly like me. I can only assume that I have the Generic Middle Age White Guy look. After all, the chances of seeing doppelgangers of me some 3,000 miles apart are pretty slim so instead it must be the GMAWGL syndrome. Unstylish grey hair, eyeglasses, a 70s mustache, rumpled clothes and dorky hiking boots - yep definitely a GMAWG.
I remember when I had my own MAWG moment with my dad when I was a kid. He used to take me on his Saturday morning shopping rounds which was always the treat of the week. We went to mysterious places and did unfathomable things and sometimes he'd buy me some little trinket or toy which made the experience even better. We were in a store and I stopped to look at something. When I looked up he was gone. I frantically ran down the isle to the next and to the next. No sign of him. I looked towards the front of the store and saw a guy with the brown fedora and leather jacket going out the door. It was my dad! (Yep, he had the style before Indiana Jones) I ran after him yelling for him to wait for me. I caught up to him and grabbed his hand. He turned to me and...oh, no, wrong guy! Another MAWG! I backed away and ran back into the store, smack into my dad. He demanded to know where I had been. When I told him what happened he thought it was the funniest thing he had heard all day. Sometimes he had a warped sense of humor.
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Maybe my sense of humor is warped too, but that story is pretty funny. Although I guess since it happened to someone else is what makes it funny!
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the guy who looked like you (not as handsome, by the way), I was so sad it wasn't you until I realized that I get to see you in less than a week. I'm so excited!
To clarify-he wasn't as handsome as you. Just so we're totally clear.
ReplyDeletePS. Laura is very happy about seeing you, and really hopes that you will try to tickle her, since you are "so silly".
You must have passed the GWGL to your son, because I keep seeing young men who look like Kurt. Maybe it is the YGWGL. He claims it is due to being a trend setter and these other posers are copying him. The look I see that I for a second think is Kurt is the dress shirt, aviator sunglasses and hair spiked into a point.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen anyone who looks like you, but maybe I haven't been looking.
I wonder what your dad was up to that you found so mysterious?
Hey- now I have two profiles?! This one is the one I have used once to purchase something on line. How did it get her and how do I get my real profile back?
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