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by Miss Awesome on March 16th, 2008
Ha, yes. Not only that, I've actually jumped on someone's back, who turned out not to be who I thought they were. Oops.
by Babycakes on March 16th, 2008
I can't count how many times I've done that...feel really stupid....some have even waved back:)
by buxtonite ..slowly losing my mind on March 16th, 2008
oh yeah and whistled and even walked up and slapped a couple of ladies pert bums thinking they were friends ...lol
by jamaine12 on March 17th, 2008
Not only wave.But I've talk to the person only to realized that I don't now her/him..It always happen to me when I'm in the supermarket.^_^
by TWA on March 25th, 2008
I've done that, and I've done much worse. Once, while walking home, I noticed my mom's car stop next to me (I thought she got off work early and decided to come pick me up.)
I get in the car, look to my left, and there sits a woman I've never seen before. I said "Oops, wrong car." and got out. Turns out she was just someone with an identical car stopping for the stop sign.
by Chezter is going to save the Redheads on March 25th, 2008
Yeah, and one further, I talked for about a half hour on the phone to this girl's sister (who sounds just like the girl I thought I was talking to)
Luckily she thought it was funny and we became pretty cool friends
by Tempter on March 21st, 2008
Worse than that I once gave a wet willy to someone I didn't know thinking it was a friend of mine!!!
by redcatt63 is around here somewhere...... on March 24th, 2008
Oh, plenty of times...and then I felt like an idiot.
by Skillet Rocks on March 21st, 2008
lol...Yes ALLWAYS..its soo imbarrising
by Tom 47 is back in his bear COAT on March 17th, 2008
Hasn't everyone? But, where I am, everybody waves back, anyway. They are probably wondering why they don't recognize you. Ha!
by trampp on September 21st, 2008
of course
by jeanie16 on March 17th, 2008
yes, embarrasingly so !
by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on March 16th, 2008
Yes lol I really have.
by Christie...is..crazy busy on March 16th, 2008
I do it all the time.... and when I see I'm wrong, I do one of two things... if its a guy I generally say... " Wow that was a really bad pick up hint ... or a great case for why I need glasses and try and laugh it off...." if its a girl I generally say " Oops.... you aren't "insert name here"... don't mind me..its one of those days and laugh it off.... I don't mind the strange looks i get and its kinda fun to watch other people laugh with you no AT you... at least they told me they were laughing with me.....hmmmmmmmm
by miRi hates social norms and regulations on March 16th, 2008
lol i have. and then the funny thing is that they thought i was somebody else too so they waved back =)
[we found this out the next day and then started talking.]
by Stillme FBB on March 16th, 2008
Yes!!!!!!!!! And they wave back, then I crack up!LOL
by pepe09 on December 30th, 2008
Yes, it just happened to me yesterday.
by Over and Out on November 6th, 2008
Yes, I have. If I realize that I don't know them fast enough, I just act like I'm scratching my head!!
by DwarfClown on August 21st, 2008
I've done that more times than I care to admit. To play it off, I pretend to be shooing something away. :-)
by Squirrel Face on June 20th, 2008
Yup, most of the time I just say, sorry, I thought you were someone else.
by mgl on June 20th, 2008
yes, its even when worst I realize it was for the person next to me! :)
by Kal-El on March 26th, 2008
Yes! VERY embarrassing!
by Firebrand on March 26th, 2008
Yes many times only to feel pretty silly when it is nothing like the person I thought it was.
by chelsea on March 26th, 2008
Yes, I have done it a few times, my friend just did it the other day. He was very embarrsed.
by Anonymous on March 26th, 2008
From time to time. Positive identification can be important.
by hey-lo on March 26th, 2008
My friend went up to someone, from behind, and gave her a BIG hug and put his face next to hers (like kind of in her neck) and then realized.. it wasn't me.
It was so funny!! Fortunately she was a wife of an aquaintence -- and not uptight/upset. He was so embarassed, because he didn't have "that kind of relationship" with her.
Poor guy.
hehe!!
by Pumby umby umpkin Est. 1989 on March 26th, 2008
Yes, its so embarrassing! I hate it when someone in their car honks the horn and waves, and you wave back, but they were waving at the person behind you! And you wave just in case you know them because you can't really see them from behind the windscreen!! I hate it XD
by Olero on March 25th, 2008
Oh my god YES! I actually walked up and apologized.
by Kricket on March 25th, 2008
Yes, I have and so I happened to remember the time that it happened to me, something my Mother had told me in a simular situation. Just finish the wave and then go on about your own business. Acting like you hadn't even done it. Sometimes you have to be a good actor.
by -_You Can Leave Your Hat On....- on March 25th, 2008
Oh my gosh - yes - its SOoo embarassing!
by csimme01 and Ninja Cooper UNMASKED on March 17th, 2008
I do it all the time, my "Office" is a 2 mile by 3 mile complex with more than 5000 people. Driving around work I see friends all the time and honk and/or wave. Get it wrong sometimes.
by eric on March 16th, 2008
All the time. I have poor eyesight.
by Possum on March 16th, 2008
weren't the right person or were the wrong person?
in my part of the world we routinely wave at strangers.
by Meg is exhausted on March 16th, 2008
at least once a week.
But then again, I'm Meg - Idiot Girl
by Blackope-Knowledge is Power on March 16th, 2008
Yea and the funny thing about it is that they wave back like they know me :)
by Empress of Everything Ever on March 16th, 2008
Used to wave to this bloke because I thought the car he was driving was someone else's car, well they were the same model and colour but the ladders and stuff on top were different??? Anyway I thought I was waving to one persona and it turns out I was waving to someone I didn't know - I still wave and they still wave back...still don't know who they are and we have never spoken but we still wave.
by Brian on March 16th, 2008
IIRC I saw a women at a Whole Foods market that looked sooo much like my wife that I walked up to her and stopped just short of...
.....:0
...tapping her on her shoulder. ;)
I think that's about the closest I've come to doing that.
by Egico is now Egioz on March 16th, 2008
Many times. It happens most often when I see a car that I think is one of my friends. I wave and then realize it's not them. The funny thing is that most people wave back!
by Darryl61 on March 16th, 2008
Yep, all the time. There are several vehicles in my town that look similar. No biggie. All that means is that I made a friendly gesture to somebody I haven't met yet. I'm very sure neither of us will have a problem with that.
by FaerieWhings on March 16th, 2008
Quite a few times.
by Miss Anubis loves this season on March 16th, 2008
I've gone running up to them like an idiot saying hello to realize that I've mistaken them for someone else. Oops. Boy, was my face red!
by Normal guy on March 10th, 2009
It freaks some people out to be waved at. I had a neighbor that would freak out if someone waved that she didn't know. "who is that? why are they waving at me? they don't know me. i don't know them. why are they waving at me? I would say relax, did it hurt? Some people wave at everybody.
by Peterpantheinspired on February 20th, 2009
Twice or thrice
by geckodude on January 10th, 2009
hell yah i was a little kid at the supermarket and i waves at some lady with her back to me and said "over here mom"
by thewhitetulip on January 10th, 2009
yes-I thought I was waving to my friend and her husband. Except the woman he was with was not my friend
by Angie on January 7th, 2009
oH yEAH! And when I realized that it wasn't the person I thought it was I said "Sooo sorry, you are not the person I thought you were.. BUT, you are way better looking!
by sumsum on January 7th, 2009
yea a lot of times sometiimes i feel embarass then after I lied I told them that I thought it was somebodyelse,, they look the same then I apologize,,,,
by Avril on January 3rd, 2009
Oh yes! Plus I talked to someone one time. I was so embarresed.
by Mario--leaving AB for a while on January 1st, 2009
i have mixed a few people up before, how embassaring.
by stuart on December 30th, 2008
I was at the front of a full cinema when a girl at the back started shouting my name and waving (b4 the film started.) I looked around but didnt know her so i ignored it
She continued shouting and waving until i felt sorry for her cos she was clearly getting embarrased. So i thought that she must know me so i stood up, turned round and shouted 'hey babe, how are you doing'
She looked puzzled, then shouted back 'who the hell are you'
I still get all hot when i think about it
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lol :)
by Cyndi Ninja on March 16th, 2008
ROFLMAO...priceless!
by Redhawk on May 1st, 2008
hehehehehe.
by R.I.P. Gerald Malone on June 4th, 2008
LOL, coolest thing ive ever heard.
by Kookie25 on January 25th, 2009
someone jumped on my back, thank god it was a girl with big boobs because i felt them on my back
by Anonymous on May 11th, 2009
Yep, I've done the same thing!
by Lady A on November 7th, 2009