To think it would be obvious my DD and her friend aren't sisters?

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YABU.
People in the streets are idiots, its a well known fact. Hardly something to get annoyed about is it? Unless you are irritated by the implication......

I was out with my toddler and 4month old twins and got asked if they were triplets. I laughed so much the the pelvic floors got a work out.

Just laugh at other people ignorance and I'd have said yes the're twins they just have different parents then laughed some more.

Maybe she was colour blind?

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I got asked this while having a bridesmaid's dress fitting with my friend, the bride. She's 5'10, very slim and willowy and has gorgeous, straight red hair. I am 5'6, very curvy even when I'm not fat, and have very dark brown curly hair!

(Friend explained that in Ireland, what with people having big families, you often get one sister who got the red hair gene and another who got brown. Still seems barking to me...)

Maybe she thought they were half sisters or even adopted.
But twins, the mind boggles!

But you get girl and boy twins and they look nothing like each other. I can't see why you would even give it 10 seconds of thought.

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rofl at the tins comment...
but yeah people can be stupid...but does it matter....
it wasn't like that woman was horrible...

used to chilmind and had at the time a very curly perm, one of my mindees was a gorgeous little girl with very curly hair (naturally obviously)....and had a fair few people commenting on her obviously getting the curls from her mum....looking at me...

If you read the multicultural forum you will find that it is quite common for siblings of mixed parentage to look totally unlike each other.

We're not exactly mixed race (both parents European) but ds is blond and blue-eyed with very fair skin and dd is dark and Mediterranean looking.

my sister is a nursery nurse and pushes the kids round in a double buggy on outings, she has to wear a bright nursery tshirt with the name on etc, she said one day she was pushing a buggy with a black little girl who was a toddler and a white boy who was 6 months old and on old lady said how cute are they twins, some people dont think before they speak.

A similar thing happened to me when DS1 was at nursery. I picked my friends DD1 up as she had broken her ankle, (my friend not the DD). My DS2 is fair skinned, blonde hair, blue eyes, short and 'solid'. His friend, despite being 6 months younger, is a good 5 inches taller, mixed race, afro, chocolate eyes, generally very different looking. A lady commented on how gorgeous my twins were. I politely thanked her, and lauged all the way to my friends house!

I was also asked a couple of weeks ago if DS1 and DS2 are twins. There are 2 years between them, and they don't really look alike. DS2 is petite, with a face like a pixie and dark hair and eyes. Plus DS1 was in his school uniform, and DS2 was asleep in the buggy in jeans and t'shirt!

Some people are just odd!

My boys are very alike, but DS1 is obviously a foot taller, thinner, is wearing a school uniform when people normally comment etc , so I am mystified as to why people keep asking if my 5 and 3 yr old DS's are twins (both brunette/blue eyed).
So YANBU.

It would have bemused me more than anything. Are some people really that dim? Or was she having a laugh. As thick as two short planks more likely.

I have been asked on more than one occasion if my two are twins. I don't have a problem with that (there are 16mths between them). One of our nannies told me that people always assumed that ds was her son, despite the fact that both her and her son (who came to work with her as a toddler) were red heads and ds had curly brown hair. But then not all siblings look alike at all, and people tend to assume that an adult with children is the parent. As this is usually the case I don't think people should find this too annoying. Today I took ds and dd and three of their friends swimming and was asked if they were all mine (I would have had to have been very busy!). I thought it was funny

One set of twins I know are very dissimilar from each other - 1 of them is very pale skinned with blonde hair & blue-eyes and the other is darker skinned with dark hair & eyes.

People really do speak without thinking, just for the sake of saying something it seems.

My friend with identical twin girls once got asked:

"How sweet, are they twins?"
"yes"
"Are they both yours?"

Well if you looked at my mate and her sister together, you would NEVER believe they were related. My friend curvy, dark haired and lovely, her sister is blond, was thin(but is now pg) and a neurotic freak. In fact friend's next door neighbour thought I was her sister lol!!

My 2 stepsisters as well, look nothing like each other, one is the image of her tall, blond mother, the other is the image of her dark haired, dark complexioned father.

agree with StewieGriffin's last sentence actually.

thought people knew more these days

was she an old lady?

just daft.

remember though she did say awwwww arent they sweet.
she was just being nice, bless her, be grateful she wasnt being mean, complainign about their noise etc., etc.,

stewie, to be fair...I think it was the twin thing that through the op, not the sibling thing...

I have 3 boys, my es (who is nearly 13) and my ys (who is almost 5) are a spitting image of eachother, but my ms, who is 7 this year is so differnt to the other 2, bless....es/ys are sturdier build, blonder,blue eyed, rounder faced, etc...my ms is skinny , a bit darker blond haired, very large green eyes,a wider nose (differntly shaped to the otehr 2's) , very small face, but big mouth (in every respect, lol)....heightwise, my ys and ms are similarish, so, we get lots of "are they twins" comments...which now, I cold understand, but when ys was a small Baby and ms was Toddler (21 month between them)....it was simply odd....

but fairlady, surely everybody knows that non-identical twins don't necessarily look more like one another than any other sibling?