Bizarre Happening
I was in church last Sunday when a lady I've said hi and bye to slipped me a piece of paper with her contact information and told me to call her sometime this week. It was quite bizarre as I hardly know her. But I said okay anyway. Perhaps she wanted to invite Cael to her son's party (they are about the same age) or something like that. That was the only reason I could think about. So anyways, I had forgotten all about it until yesterday when I was looking through my purse and saw this piece of paper. So I called her. Got voicemail. She called back later in the evening and we started this very odd conversation. I said "Hey, I'm Julie, you gave me your contact and told me to call you? What's up?" She starts telling me she had caught the flu and had been home. I was thinking, Wow! she is being real friendly like we have known each other awhile. It was really odd. She must have felt like something was not right because she suddenly asked me who I was again. I said I was Julie. Then she said, "Do I know you?" I said "Well yes, we are the couple who used to sit behind you in church with a toddler". She said, "ohhhh...I thought you were Wendy, I meant to give the contact to Wendy as I said I would." So okay we ended the conversation after a laugh over mistaken identity.
I am writing all this to say that for some very very odd reason, people here have a hard time recognizing Asian faces. I guess we must all look alike to them. There are basically 3 Chinese girls (that I know) in our church. And I have been mistaken for 2 of them. Once, someone came up to me and started congratulating me and asking me how the honeymoon was. As I did not know this person, I thought it was very bizarre that he would be asking me about my honeymoon that happened 4 years ago. I later found out he thought I was another girl who just got married!
Well, I guess I will take these happenings as a compliment since I think those 2 ladies look much slimmer than me. Haha!
Labels: mistaken identity
3 Comments:
hey but dont all the westerners look the same to us!!! well at least now you got someone's phone no. to kacau and to make friends :))
sharon
also cael is looking really good. his harecut...... nice :)
again, I have to disagree about westerners looking the same to us. I can DEFINITELY tell the difference between Brad Pitt and George Clooney! :D
And I see your English has gone down the drain...harecut.
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