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Failp0 t1_j52va0i wrote

Lol back in the early 2000s when cell phones weren't a thing, I called my best friend (memorized her number). A woman answered and I said hey gram blah blah is my friends name home? Yep,calls her over, tell her its me and we start talking. Took us 3 minutes to figure out we had no idea who each other was and we both had the names of our respective friends and apparently sounded extremely similar with a similar family set up. We all thought we knew each other. I don't know how that happened or how it took so long to figure out.

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Lone-flamingo t1_j5430sx wrote

I once made a habit of eating at the same fast food restaurant once a week. The cleaner working that same shift was a very friendly and pretty unique-looking girl. I think she had like half an arm or something like that, walked with a limp, and was pale with red hair which is not that common here.

One day she walked up to me, and basically went "hey, are you [name]?" and used my actual first name. So I replied yes and for a moment I was desperately trying to remember if I did know this girl or not. Like I said, she had a pretty unique appearance but I can be extremely unobservant at times so I suppose it was possible I just never noticed that I knew someone who was missing a part of their arm? I have missed similar details before. I have definitely known some people with naturally red hair.

But no, we didn't know each other. She just happened to go to school with someone who looked like me and had the same name as me but I had never even heard of that school so it couldn't have been me.

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