To be slightly unnerved that I have a Doppelganger that I have to see everyday?

[peggotty]

It's freaking me out!! I used to see her around at the odd toddler group but now her dc is at the same school as mine and I pass her/see her in the playground nearly every day. It is so bizarre to see someone who looks very very like you (her hair ins different but her face is very like mine), and the worst thing is she is a slightly older, slightly more haggard version of me or so I'd like to think anyway .

That made me laugh! Do you think she thinks the same thing? Do you give each other shifty eye contact and a half smile? I think you should say hello! Maybe she is a long lost rellie! You could end up on Jezza

And you're not related in anyway atall?

Agree it is quite freaky. Years ago, dh told me a rep from a recruitment company that was trying to get his buisness looked like me. I met her at a works function and we were so alike it was scary. Absolutly no family in commen that we could find.

Unfortunatly I was the slighly older, more haggard version

Lots of my friends have them! One of my closest friends who lives hundreds of miles away has, in a local pub, a regular "fat double" (as in the regular slot on TFI Friday a few years back).

At university I used to have an "ill double" who, like peggotty's, looked like me only in a parallel universe where I was slightly more scrawny and haggard...

I try to avoid eye contact with her, but stare open-mouthed (virtually ) when she's not looking. It would be impossible for us to be related as I'm Scottish, living in England. Well, not impossible but highly unlikely. SHe doesn't just look like me face on but also in profile!

It is so incredibly weird looking at someone who is your spitting image.

Someone in the local town used to look like me (I'm assuming she hasn't stacked on the weight like me!)
My friends used to complain that I'd ignored them in this particular night spot and I had to explain that I hadnt ever been there, let alone on the nights they said.

Euphemia - no!

Maybe I am a 'type' whose facial features are occasionally completely replicated . Like some kind of suburban Blade Runner-esque nightmare. Maybe she is the mother I should be - patient, jolly and always remembers to bring stuff in for the harvest festival . (Second year of shame).

Haha! Many years ago when I was at University I had a massive crush on a friend who I was too scared to make a move on because I didn't think I would be at all their type (short, plain, shy, dumpy, quite boring). Fast forward a year and my crush ends up with my fecking doppleganger with similar traits and the SAME NAME as me! Boy was I kicking myself. I never met doppleganger but according to Facebook they are still together to this day. And we still look freakily alike.

Happily, I am also still with my DP who I met around the same time. And looks nothing like ex-crush.

Excuse my bad spelling of doppelganger. I suppose technically it should be doppelgänger anyway.

I used to work at a firm of solicitors where my double worked in the property department downstairs. Clients referred to us as sisters and sometimes my friends/relatives used to wave at my downstairs clone through the window and accuse me later of not acknowledging them.

She thought she had joined a very friendly firm and town as she said people used to stare at her and wave through the windows.

We did once ask a client who thought we were sisters who was the best looking and to pick-he went really red!

has anyone else noticed peggotty?

I met the total double of my 1st dh (who had died a few months before) at one of my brother's gigs.

Not only did he look like 1st dh, he stood like him and danced like him. When he spoke to me I was too freaked out to respond and just went white.

My Mum had to take himn on one side and explain.

Most freakish.

I saw my double on the London Underground once. She didn't see me (too busy looking at a book) but I just gawped at her. It felt freaky and uncomfortable. I don't think I imagined that other people clocked us as doubles too - there was quite a lot of tennis match type head swivelling as people scrutinised us both.

Yes, Olderandwider, it does feel uncomfortable! I don't know why...maybe because it's normal to think of yourself as an individual in all respects, it's a shock when you see someone resembling you so closely!
HelloOutThere - no, noone has noticed as far as I know - that would make it even more embarassing iykwim. I am actually dreading the day when someone does comment, as I think it is bound to happen.

Riddo that must have been really upsetting for you to say the least...

I think I must have had a doppelganger when I was living in Berlin, and she must have had a winter coat like mine. People used to wave at me and yell hello from across the street, it mostly happened when I was wearing my winter coat but happened a few times in the summer.

Just after I'd moved back to London I watched a short film online that had a tracking shot through Berlin. As it went down the Ku'damm there was a woman who looked just like me, in a winter coat very like mine. I genuinely though it was me, but decided in the end that it couldn't be as I didn't have shoes like hers.

A girl at my school was my double. The teachers could not tell us apart, when we moved up to secondary school we had to explain again that we weren't twins, we weren't related, we had different surnames etc.

I looked her up on facebook recently. Her profile picture is of her and her dd. She is still my spitting image. Her dd is the image of my dd.

Somebody, somewhere, has been up to no good hoodoo nonsense.

If you have my soul, I want it back.