Woman Nearly Pepper Sprays Man Over Twin Misunderstanding

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mattstaff
May 29, 2021 6:00 PM EDT

Anyone who has a twin knows that having a family member who looks exactly like you can result in some hilarious, if not panic-inducing situations. It sounds like the dude on the other end of this interaction had no idea just how close he was to taking some pepper spray to the face. For some more humorous, twin-inspired content check out this AskReddit thread about the best switcharoos that twins were able to pull off. 

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    Font - r/tifu + Join u/exteriordesigner · 1d 1 2 12 24 3 32 19 TIFU when I forgot I had a Twin Sister M So my twin sister and I live in the same city and have very similar jobs. She's a UX Researcher and I'm a UX/ Ul designer. One day (before the pandemic) I was out shopping at a grocery store and I noticed that a man I had never met before, looking at me and smiling. I started to get creeped out, returned his gaze with a glare, and hurried through my shopping. When got to the checkout line, he
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    Font - With absolute horror and fear on his face he said "woah! I just wanted to say hi! It's been a while and I was wondering how work was going!" Confused and freaked out, all I could muster was a "what?" "I wanted to ask how the UX Research Education Program is going! I really enjoyed that presentation you gave to my team and I just wanted to say that we're starting to do unmoderated A/B tests!" I had given research presentations to engineering teams at my company before so I started to think
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    Organism - Then it dawned on me. I would have been embarrassed if it weren't for the immediate sense of relief I felt when I realized this man wasn't trying to wear my skin. I lowered my pepper-spray-armed hand and said "oh my god I am so sorry. You must know my twin sister [name]. I am SO sorry!!!" "[name] has a twin???" He looked shocked and relieved.
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    Font - We both ended up laughing and he apologized for his aggressive behavior. I apologized on behalf of my twin, who failed to mention I existed! Though in her defense, and my own, it's really hard to work into a professional conversation "btw, I have a twin sister that looks just like me and doesn't work far from here. If you think you see me out and about, be cautious. It may be my twin sister and she will pepper spray you."
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    Font - TL;DR I nearly pepper sprayed a man because he thought I was my twin sister and was being aggressively friendly, which I mistook as predatory behavior. EDIT: thank you for all of the love! Especially the hilarious twin stories. I smiled and laughed so much reading the comments. Always amazing finding people with similar experiences.
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    Font - AccountWasFound • 1d There was a group of triplets that went to the same summer camp I did growing up (it was a 2 week day camp at the beginning of the summer, so we didn't see each other much), when we were younger there were like 5 groups for our age and it wasn't an issue because I would only interact with like 1 of them in a given summer, but as we got older (like 9-13, not like high school) there were only like 2 groups in our age group, and the 2 groups did a lot of stuff together.
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    Font - StrangerHopeful • 1d 1 Award I've experienced something like this. I used to lifeguard at a Waterpark and there was this other lifeguard that seemed to work every shift and he always had a baseball cap. I didn't know him very well, and I always forgot his name...it was either Kevin or Michael. Anyway, one day we were picking up after our shift and one person was handing me life jackets and I was passing them to someone else to hang up on a rack. My brain almost broke when I suddenly becam
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    Font - QuixoticDame • 1d 2 3 8 Awards My twin and I each had two jobs in high school. At the end of the day, a guy came into the restaurant where I worked and was like, "How many jobs do you have?!?!" He's seen each of us at both of our jobs that day. 6 Reply 1 8.9k 3 ...
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