We’re all twins apparently
So to preface this, I’m a red head. Normally this would make me stick out, but I worked in a restaurant with my brother and sister who’re also gingers and at the same time worked there, another set of 2 ginger sisters worked there. So at the same time there were 4 ginger girls working at the same restaurant and we all had long hair and were around the same height (5’2-5’5) and there was almost always at least 2 of us working at the same time.
I cannot even count how many times we got mistaken for each other but the funniest was probably the time I was hosting (14 at the time) and my sister (18 at the time) was serving. To be clear, drinking age is 18 here.
So I seat a table and tell them the specials for the night then say “your server will be with you soon” then turn to leave but a man in the group says “no we’re going to order drinks now. Which wine do you recommend” and it’s busy rn okay? I don’t have time for this and it’s literally illegal for me to take alcohol orders. So I explain “sorry sir, I’m the host not your server and I can’t make any recommendations on or serve alcohol since I’m underage” (I always did my best to not tell customers my actual age cause some people are creepy) but dude wasn’t having it and starts going off on how if I work in a restaurant I need to be able to give recommendations on everything and blah blah blah all while somehow trying to flirt with me. Eventually I just give up and say “look I get that you’re frustrated and I’m sorry for that. I’m 14 though and if I take your drink order on anything stronger than a pop, we could lose our liquor license and I could lose my job. All I can tell you is the wine that’s featured tonight but I haven’t tried it or any of our other wines since it would be illegal for restaurant to serve me them. As I said your server will be with you shortly” he started stuttering over himself at this point cause he just realized that the girl he was trying to flirt with is barely a teenager and he’s mad so I walk away.
Idk why I didn’t connect in my head that I sat him in my sisters section but I didn’t. A while later my sister comes up to me VERY confused and says “idk what’s going on with Man at Table. He’s acting like I’m crazy but Idk what I did” then it hit me that we were wearing the exact same outfit cause we shopped together and I did both of our hair the same. We don’t look much alike from the neck up but our bodies are nearly identical and customers, especially men, tend to have us blurred together. And that man had spent more time staring at my chest than my face. He thought my sister was me and that I’d just straight lied to his face.
So I’m like “I know what’s going on, follow me” so I grabbed a couple cookies from the sample tray and put them on a plate and had my sister comes with me to the table. When we get to the table I say “I wanted to apologize about the confusion earlier so I brought some complimentary cookies. I hope my sister here was able to give you some good drink recommendations” the look of pure shock on the man’s face when his eyes actually travelled past my chest and to our faces was priceless. Apparently he was mostly normal the rest of the night