We all have a twin somewhere else in the world
And in my father’s case, there is apparently more than one. When we went to WRC Corona Rally Mexico a few years ago, we learned that my father is apparently the mayor of Guanajuanto because the mayor’s picture was in the Rally program, and he looks just like my dad. In addition to that gentleman, there is another one who is a microscope representative and he’s been coming through the lab for the past several months trying to give a demonstration of his company’s new (very cool) scope. Every time I’ve seen him, I had to do a double take, so today while he was setting up for the demo, I just told him about the resemblance. I loaded a picture of my dad and I from the wedding, and after taking a look, he actually agreed that he could see it too. We got into a cool discussion of family history, and realized we both had family from Germany (my dad’s side is German, hence my maiden name). I got my lab manager to come over to take a look too, and she asked me, “How did you do that?” because she thought I had photoshoped the picture! I had to explain that it was just such a close resemblance between the rep, and yes, that really was my dad with my on my wedding day. It was hilarious when she called a whole bunch of other people from my lab over to check it out.
