Just a few minutes ago I was pedalling back to my apartment on my bicycle when I passed a local taqueria. There was an old Volvo sedan (maybe a hatchback) pulling out of the parking lot. I noticed that the driver looked very similar to the aformentioned President of Russia. Well, at least he did for the second or two I had a chance to look at him in the fading light.
So what about y’all, have you seen anyone who looks like somebody else?
At Lutz’s Bakery on Montrose Avenue in Chicago. In the 1980s there was a guy who looked just like Adolph Hitler, right down to the cropped mustache, who would arrive at about 7:30 pm and have dessert and coffee in the cafe portion of this wonderful bakery.
He’d be dressed in a 1940’s style suit, often in a medium brown tone. He was always at a table alone.
To say that he turned heads is . . . uh, an understatement. We probably saw him at least six times.
God, I’d give anything to hear the denouement of this story . . .
Dude, which taqueria? I’d like to think he hangs out at at Taqueria Cancun…or at least Jalapenos. Imagine what a let down it’d be if he spent all his time at the Eastside Costa Brava! Or maybe it’s that new place on mission…hmmmm…
I bet it’s at that High Tech Burrito place. God, that place sucks. You gotta get your burritos at a greasy little hole in the wall! And calling them “wraps”? WTF is that? I bet Russian presidents don’t know their burritos well enough to go someplace good.
Hey my cousin and I used to play this game!
Bruce Springsteen was the produce manager at the grocery store in my college town in Idaho in the '80’s. I use to go buy lots of vegetables just to get a look at him. He still lives there and I saw him not too long ago. Still looks somewhat Bosslike.
One time I saw a guy at the airport (also early '80’s) that looked just like David Soul and guess what, it really was David Soul!
My mother-in-law looks just like granny from the Beverly Hillbillies but with short hair. She even sounds a little like her. Whenever I happen upon the show I want to comment on it but it’s something I just keep to myself.
One of my thesis committee members looked exactly like Stalin (at least in profile). Oddly enough, he was a political scientist specializing in domestic Russian politics, and he had an amazing knack for being in Russia whenever there was a coup. Once, he was even inside the Duma building. Hmmmmm…well, he’s dead now, so we’ll probably never know for sure…
Once I was on a business trip to a prison, the one where Mike Tyson was being held on his rape conviction (long story). As we were going through security early in the morning, I looked behind me, and saw a guy at the pay phone with really goofy-lookiing hair, sticking straight up. I thought to myself, “Geez, that guy looks like Don King!” Then I realized it was Don King.
