Here are the reasons why I think I would be a good candidate for the Witness Protection Program.
- A new identity would not be a problem. I can’t remember my own name half the time.
- I remember all faces. (In case you want to kill me, I will remember your face….)
- I can keep a secret... whatever you tell me. (Actually I forget it right after your admission.)
- I can barely find my way home, hence the help of Agnes (GPS). So a new location is fine.
- I like to travel.
- I am suspicious of everyone and every circumstance.
- A new career might be nice.
- Every day is a new day for me. (Actually, every blink is a new day.)
- I love mysteries.
- I might, just maybe or perhaps make a good witness. The jury is still out on that one.
There are many people out there that believe they know me and recognize me. I guess it's my fairly common looking plain kind of face... because everyone (yes everyone in the whole wide world) "thinks" I am familiar to them.
- I look like their niece.
- I look like their daughter.
- I look like their best friend.
“No, my name is Teresa.” I pointed to my little name plaque.
“Well you look like a Tracy I know.” He said.
I just nodded politely.
He called me Tracy for the next year every time he visited the bank. Not only that, he wouldn't let anyone take care of his banking needs except me...Tracy.
When my sweet beautiful Mama was in the hospital almost two years ago, a woman walked up to me while I was there...at the hospital.
“How are you?” she sang with excitement.
My brain scanned her face like a good computer for recognition. I cleared all checkpoints of her face in my mind. No recognition. So, I just nodded.
She continued to talk.
I listened. I don’t remember what she said, though. I was stressed trying to place her in my mind.
Then at some point she realized I wasn’t who she thought. She said, “I thought you were someone I use to know, but you're not. You REALLY look like her.”
I smiled and shrugged and said, “Sorry.”
She was clearly embarrassed and left.
She looked like a nice person, maybe I should have tried harder to be her friend.
Am I the only one? Are you ever mistaken for another person?
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