I’m always chewing on my tongue. Nobody could fake that.
If, for instance, I was to catch on fire, if my head tried to separate from my body, grow spider legs and try and crawl away on its own, that might be an imposter.
Can they touch the tip of their nose with their tongue? It’s not definitive, because 10% of people can, but if they can’t, it’s definitely not me.
Also – I have this one little pattern of freckles on my forearm which…
Gaaah! I just checked, and it’s no longer there! Apparently I am an imposter!
Say “Hey, Uke, give us some Yeats!” NO imposter could memorize as much Yeats as I have within a short period of time.
If he did, go on to Lear and Carroll. He’s sure to slip up on “The Pobble Who Has No Toes.” Or somewhere in the Fifth Fit of “The Hunting of the Snark.”
If my podperson auto-salts her food and auto-splendas her beverages without tasting them first. If my podperson doesn’t wake up and turn off her alarm on the phone, then do the glucometer followed by taking the pills and injectables before going in to pee at 5 am. [And I frequently enough wake up 5 minutes before the alarm that letting it wake me up is almost noteworthy.]
Not sure of anything else, though I am admittedly very mildly OCD, so I do tend to sort and stack stuff like coins or cooking ingredients by size or color or location in mise en place…
There are probably only a couple dozen people in the world who would know me by name if they saw me. Maybe only five, at the most, that would be able to distinguish an impostor, and I doubt if any would be motivated to try.
If the imposter took a beverage out to the car when she left, and actually brought the container back into the house upon her return, my husband would be surprised. If upon being asked if she wanted to order pizza for dinner instead of whatever else was planned she answered “no, I don’t really feel like having pizza”, that would be a dead giveaway.
Buy me a bottled beer with a stick-on label. If I don’t try to peel it off intact, draw your weapon.
He smiles and engages strangers in friendly conversation.
How much research would this imposter do? If it watched your every move for weeks, I suspect it would figure out most people’s quirks, leaving only past memories as a way to trip up the imposter. Surely it couldn’t watch you your entire life and learn about everything you’ve experienced.
Of course any dog will immediately know it’s an imposter because it smells different. No way to fake that.
Finely chop some parsley on one plate and some cilantro on another. Put the plates on opposite sides of a large room and ask me to tell you which is which from the middle. I seriously doubt that they could find anyone who has as strong a reaction to the hideous reek of cilantro as me.
Have the impostor have sex with my husband. HE would know immediately.
Ask him how Ayn Rand reacted when I beat her at Scrabble.
Have him get in and out of the car. If he can mimic all my specific physical ailments, he’s not an impostor.
And, of course, have him create some of my art work, start to finish.
I have a longstanding agreement with my friends, preferring they err on the side of caution. Decapitate me if there is any question.
I read newspapers the same way - entertainment section first, front page last.
No one would know. Not even me. I may be an impostor replacing one of a long line of impostors. It’s possible there was no original me and I’ve been nothing but impostors all along.
This isn’t on topic, but I very much want to hear this story
All the impostor would have to do is smile sweetly at everyone he meets and say “Good morning!” and they’d know right away it wasn’t me.
That’s pretty cool.
It would have worked, too - if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
Peace out,
Shodan
Did she just kind of shrug?