codeman38 wrote:
Have you ever responded to some random person, thinking they were talking to you, only to turn around and discover that they were holding a conversation on their phone? I've had that happen several times...quite embarrassing.
Yes and also including people who were talking to themselves, people who were talking to others, and people who were calling out to people who were behind me.
Embarrasing incident happened to me in school back in october 1992. While in the hallways between classes, I heard two girls talking about a student I knew I grade school. This student had asked out one of the girls and she was going to accept his offer.
That was in the morning. When afternoon came I saw this student coming down the hallway in my direction, so as he was about to pass me, I called out.
"Hey Jason, she said she would do it"
I got an odd look in return. It was then that I realized that the person I had just addressed was not jason, but someone who looked like him. I then scrutinized the situation even more, and realized that I had actually met this stranger back in July of that year at a monster truck pull/car burn.
Some daredevil who weighed like 350 pounds jumped a motorcycle 150 feet thru the air over cars. He needed to use the whole 1/2 mile of the race track we were at to get his motorcycle up to speed to make the jump.
I remembered him because my dad was his dad's boss at work and they both happened to be there that night.
Of course, as is usually the case with me, I don't pick up on these things until it's too late and I've put my foot in my mouth, so to speak.
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