Preparedness for when

moneyistooshorttomention

I can top that - jko - if not on a personal level. There was an article in the papers this week re a young mum who had an unfortunate accident whilst she was driving along in her car, complete with baby strapped into her little carseat. This mothers car ended up in the water and she died.

The baby, however, was still alive and a group of 4 men all heard a womans voice calling for help from the car and hence investigated it. They duly rescued the baby and she is now alive and well and living with grandparents - BUT the mother had died some time beforehand and couldn't possibly have called those men to assist her baby. She did though....

That mum wasn't going anywhere until she had made sure her baby was safe, even though she herself was dead.

EDIT: I have seen a doppelganger though - and spoken to them. It was thoroughly confusing...as I was all set-up to greet someone I was friendly with by her name when she walked into where I was. Same face/same hair/same way of dressing/similar type of career even/same voice - but she wasn't my friend! It was totally uncanny and I have often wished I had asked the woman I was friendly with if she thought she might have an identical twin. It quite definitely WASNT her though - as not only did this woman clearly not know me, though she was speaking to me, she had no option in those circumstances but to provide her name/contact details/etc (so it was quite clear it wasn't her). Now that was weird...

GreyQueen

I have a live doppleganger. I even know her first name and I did have a photo of her;she appeared in a cast-of-dozens photo from an organisation I used to work with. Dead-ringer for me, so much so that I had to do a double-take when I saw that photie. Never saw her in the flesh myself but one of my oldest friends saw 'me' in WH Smiths one day, went up to greet 'me' and 'I' turned around and it was Waitaminute, GQ never wears makeup, that isn't her.

Brambleberry

Ooh good question, just have to bounce in with this!

I have had people who know me by sight, but not really well, claim they have seen me in a neighbouring town of an evening. Thought it was a joke at first but then several folk from different strands of my life have asked the same thing!
She has also appeared in a promo leaflet for an event in my town, so I was accused of being a closet market-stall-holder!
I still have no idea who she is, but she does look like me and it's weird!

GreyQueen

Could be worse, Brambleberry.

A woman known to me personally was once arrested and questioned for many hours, very aggressively, by the Police, over an armed robbery. Several witnesses insisted the female accompanying the armed robber was herself. What had happened was that the armed robber was an ex-bf. He had replaced her as gf with another woman who looked very like her and who had chosen to imitate her personal styling, and it was she who had been his partner in crime.

The Police only backed down as she had 100+ alibis in the form of people she was with at a venue at the same time she was allegedly armed robbing. The whole experience left her very shaken.:(

I was surprised at having such a deadringer as I'm a bit unusual-looking. Not in an attractively-unusual way, but I don't normally get taken for other people.

Still, if you look at it realistically, there are only so many ways of arranging eyes, a nose and a mouth.:rotfl:

charlies-aunt

I definitely have a doppelganger - I have been reproached many times on a Monday morning for not speaking to a colleague or friend when they had seen me out and about at the weekend - although I had never been anywhere near where I'd been "seen".
Got confronted by a group of people in a restaurant not so long back and asked why I was acting so distant...as soon as I spoke, they realised their mistake and assured me that they all worked with my identical twin.
I'd love to meet her!

Softstuff

My husband evidently has a local doppelganger. He went into a chippy and was asked "back so soon??". They were thinking at first he was a bit nuts when he had no idea what they were talking about, but the doppelganger had just purchased our order about 10 minutes prior...

I don't think adults are just behaving as though they are children, because many children are willing to give something a go, some adults are behaving as though they are mentally incapacitated. Simple practical things that anyone can do after watching a youtube video are greeting with amazement and disbelief by many. The proliferation of services to do everything barring wiping your bum is I feel a bit to blame.

mardatha

iI don't have any experience of doubles but I have seen a fair few ghosts.

daz378

the other day a colleague at work said he was messing about on his downloaded a banking app and borrowed 10k for a new car in about 5 min.....what i thought....we are about to be privatized ... very brave to take on new debt.... but i thought that was too easy

moneyistooshorttomention

Daz,

Personally I think its very very difficult to know where to draw the line somewhere in between Positive Thinking and Unrealistic Thinking. That colleague of yours erred on the side of Unrealistic Thinking in all probability.

I would say a heck of a lot of people go in for Unrealistic Thinking/aka blind optimism.

On the other hand there is Positive Thinking and figuring out what you can manage to achieve in a given situation, when a lot of people are nay-saying, because they personally couldn't manage to get whatever-it-is in the given circumstances.

It is sometimes very much a judgement call as to whether "other people couldn't manage it...but that doesn't mean you personally cant do so".

I do think most people come down on the side of Unrealistic Thinking, but that doesn't mean there are no grounds for anyone anywhere achieving something that looks unachievable if they do some Positive Thinking.

Very very difficult balance to achieve sometimes...and boils down to people having a very very realistic assessment of themselves personally (which doesn't seem to be a common trait:cool:).

GreyQueen

A feller I worked with, back in the day, told me how he'd appeared on the early evening news, or rather a photofit of him and a description of his vehicle. The Police were looking for him.

He rang them immediately and was interviewed; he'd been at the scene of what would be a crime about 2 minutes after he'd driven off after completing an entirely blameless and routine errand on his way home from work. He was rapidly 'eliminated from the enquiry'.

The woman with the armed robbery issue was left so traumatised by the Police questioning that to this day she scrupulously notes in her diary where she was, and who she was with, times arriving and leaving, in case she has to provide a future alibi. It was pure chance that she was irrefutably with so many people at the time of the crime.

I've often thought about that one myself. As someone who lives alone, there is usually no one who can say exactly what I'm doing at any hour of the evening or weekend. Be hard to prove that you were lying on your sofa reading a book if someone was absolutely insistant that you were elsewhere.

daz, it absoloutely horrifies me how easy it is to take on hefty debts. I don't think your workmate is being brave, in your present workplace situation, I think he's being incredibly foolish. Really hope that doesn't turn around and bite him on the b*m.