Jasmine ,'Power Play'
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My brother and I have gotten the same. Yerg.
What's funnier, though, is that people assume my brother & his wife are brother and sister, which freaks them out.
And then there was the time I was out with them and a cashier did the whole deal: assumed I was the wife (& mother to my nephew) and my SIL was his sister. The looks on everyones' faces were just....great.
When a friend of mine was about 16, she would sometimes take her one year old brother out - she got a lot of dirty looks from people who assumed he was her son.
mr. flea and I are occasionally taken for siblings by salespeople. It's a little weird - why would you assume the two people buying a room-sized rug are siblings, rather than a couple? Do siblings make major furniture purchases together that often?
We do look somewhat alike, in general ways (hight, build, coloring). Of course, I look nothing like his sister, and he doesn't look much like my brother.
Kat, hanging on by a thread.
Dude, I just completed something else on my to do list (email). Today is rocking.
she got a lot of dirty looks from people who assumed he was her son
Because that would make it okay to look at her like crap.
Some people.
The most annoying was the "lesbian relationship" between my sister and I. It's true between the cigars and the short hair in unnatural colours and the sitting astride chairs and swigging beer from the bottle some stereotypes might have been tripped in the Jamaican brain, but still. Why smile and nod knowingly when we identify ourselves as kin?
My Mom has been mistaken for my girlfriend or sister many a time.
Wrod. I've taken to sleeping in the tub or in the papasan. The tub is a little better because a) buoyancy and b) no cat, but I worry about sliding under the water. Which I shouldn't, because I'm pretty well wedged in there. But I do recommend at least a lukewarm soak to help with the sleeping.
I don't actually sleep in the tub, but I do like it for ache relief. Sadly, it's just deep enough that I can't really get out of it by myself, so I can't take baths when home alone.
Raquel, what's your due date? I can't recall.
When I was nannying (at 21/22) it was assumed a couple of times that I was mother to the kids. Including one 11 year old who looked...11. Really didn't know how to take that.
Go you! You totally rock, msbelle.
Me, I've got nuthin'. though I have stuff to do. But I am uninspired.
Fun and games with confused people....
1) I had someone yell "LESBOS!" out of a truck when I was kissing my mom good bye on the street, when I was in high school.
2) I've gotten what I call "sad face" from way too many strangers while babysitting when I was a teenager. Dude. You never heard of babysitting?
3) One time, out to dinner with a family friend (parents' age), I could totally tell that people at nearby tables were trying to figure out what the deal was. It made me laugh.