Strangest 'false memory' someone has of you?

[Eastie77]

I created a similar thread to this years ago and found it fascinating so thought I'd restart a new one:)

The strangest one for me is still the one I wrote about last time: I bumped into a former colleague who I worked with many years ago. When I told him I had two children he said ah yes, I remember when you were pregnant in the office. Except I fell pregnant years after I left the place where we worked together. However he distinctly remembered my pregnancy, the baby gifts colleagues got for me and the 'baby shower' lunch I had. He rememberd signing a congratulations card for me.

He remained absolutely convinced even when I pointed out my eldest's childs age didn't match up with the time I worked there and seemed to think I simply forgot when I left There was no-one else in our office who looked remotely like me and no other pregancies he could have confused me with as it was a male dominated office.

Still puzzles me to this day!

I had a strong Australian accent when I came back to the UK. My dh swears blind that he first saw me in a specific shop in a suburb of our home town before we met. He remembered my accent.(he said he wanted to speak to me but was too shy) I’d never been to that part of town much less to that shop actually until I started going out with him.

A relative of mine has several instances of when our family has done/ not done something. I think it suits her narrative that we're a bunch of twats.
So, she'll tell people that we all completely ignored her son's significant birthday, never sent him so much as a card. I've actually got the photos out to prove we were there, look there we are with the huge present we all clubbed together to buy. No, we must have photoshopped ourselves in to the party.

I've heard so much bullshit from her false memories that basically I don't believe a single thing that comes out of her mouth.

When I was a student I worked behind the bar of a union nightclub which had a weekly rotation of nights. On one night of the week a guy would often come and stare at me and started following me around while I was collecting glasses, which was creepy. After a few weeks of this he cornered me one night and started yelling at me asking why I was ignoring him, because I was his girlfriend. I had never seen him before in my life! He went on about it for some time. I was flabbergasted. I asked the bouncers to remove him. He came back on that night of the week lots of times, sometimes staring at me from a distance, sometimes following me around. Every time he spoke to me he kept up the same story, and he would be thrown out by the bouncers, who would have to carry him out kicking and screaming about what a bitch I was and he didn't deserve the way I was treating him. It was all very weird and I was quite frightened that he would follow me home one night and I'd be found dead in a bush somewhere!

When I was 18-20ish and home from uni I would often go to the same masive nightclub near home with frienfs.

One night a guy came up to me and asked why I stood him up a few days befoe. I hadn't I hadn't ever seen him before and told him. He had the wrong first name too but assumed I was pretending to grt out of the situation, he said I had a red car I didn't even have one etc.

Next time I was at the club a girl came up to me started chatting about something. I had never seen her before either and she thought it was hilarious thwt I was messing around pretending to be someone else.

Next time I was home and went to the club the original guy came up and said he had just been talking to me and I was wearing a different dress.

Turned out there was a girl who also went to the same club who people were confusing me with. The guy worked it out and went to find her, reappeared with her and it was the weirdest thing, she was the same height, same size clothes and even we both thought we looked like each other. When does thst ever happen! She told me she had also been having random chats with people asking why I wasn't at uni et

Several different work colleagues think they remember my pregnancy. We don't see each other often, maybe every few months at a conference, and I've repeated had different people ask me about my DD and then reminisce about my pregnancy.

The only thing is, my DP is the one who was pregnant! I'd think it was just people making politely fictional small talk, but some of them have been quite adamant about details of it.

@Marchitectmummy - a similar thing happened to my younger son when he was at Uni.

He also eventually met his 'double' out in a club one night, and they had a good laugh about how similar they were. To be honest, well built blokes in their late teens with short hair, glasses and a bit of a beard all look very alike!

A friend of mine often has very different versions of some events to me. I have to be a little careful sometimes as it led to a massive fallout in our wider friendship group when she told someone that I'd arranged a night out . This person was absolutely offended that I hadn't invited them (I found out years later that this was the initial reason for the fallout). Except I didn't arrange it, my friend did. Little things like that have happened a few times so I never delete messages between us now!