Same Name

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

This afternoon as I was reading some ads, I stumbled across an escort whose name is the same as one of my college roommates. I immediately thought, "I could never hire 'Joe Smith' as that would be weird." Then I wondered, what he was advertising as "Sam Fitzpatrick" - could I hire him? I might, just to meet another Sam Fitzpatrick.

 

Would you be able to hire someone with the same name as you?

[gallahadesquire]

I met a lawyer in Boston who shared my name. His middle initial was "P" instead of "J", but otherwise, the same. We're about the same age.

He makes a shitload more money than I ever did. But it was a weird experience.

[+ Gar1eth]

What is weirder is meeting someone who looks incredibly like you know you aren't a twin. At a previous place I worked, one of the secretary's husband came by one day. He asked me if I had been at the gym the night before. Well since the word 'gym' only leads to white noise in my brain, I told him 'no'. Then I ran into this guy. He looked almost exactly like me. I always wanted a picture of the two of us together, but it was before he days of cameras in cell phones, and I never did. But I was constantly confused for him. A person who worked in his department was looking at me strangely in a hall once because I had a certain work badge the other guy wouldn't have been wearing. I said, ''Im not so and so. I'm supposed to have this badge on." Another time I was at the airport. This guy I had seen at work but relent know at all started talking to me as if I should know him.

 

My 'twin' looked almost exactly like me. The main differences being his voice was deeper, what little hair he had was wavy where mine was mostly straight, and he was married and wore a wedding ring. This guy looked so much like me that if we were standing together from 30 feet away I doubt my parents or my siblings could have told us apart for sure.

 

Gman

[tom1980]

If the guy had the exact same name, that might be weird. There was a guy a year behind me in my college with the same first and last name as me, but I never actually met him. I always wondered what he looked like.

 

When I was growing up, my brother and I had a really good friend who was also named Thomas. My brother gave us other nicknames so that we wouldn't both answer every time he said "Tom" or "Tommy." By high school, our friend Tom had grown quite attractive, and I did fantasize about him regularly. Since we were all in the same grade, I saw him in the showers after PE and had lots of good masturbation material.

[gp0560]

"The word 'gym' only leads to white noise in my brain."

 

Thanks, Gman, I loved this so much! As for me, the nearest I get to a "gym" is the dictionary.

[+ Charlie]

One time my friend S. was giving a recital, and his brother G. and I went to the performance. At the intermission, a woman walked up to G. and me and said, "S. told me his brother is in the audience tonight, and that must be you, because you look just like him," and turned to me instead of G. And she was right about the second part: I do look enough like S. to be his brother, and G. does not.

 

I have a very uncommon name, so I was surprised when I tried to google myself and discovered that almost all the links were to a handsome young Swiss computer guy, whom no one would ever mistake for me. We are so unalike, that it probably wouldn't feel weird to me to have sex with him.

[marylander1940]

What is weirder is meeting someone who looks incredibly like you know you aren't a twin. At a previous place I worked, one of the secretary's husband came by one day. He asked me if I had been at the gym the night before. Well since the word 'gym' only leads to white noise in my brain, I told him 'no'. Then I ran into this guy. He looked almost exactly like me. I always wanted a picture of the two of us together, but it was before he days of cameras in cell phones, and I never did. But I was constantly confused for him. A person who worked in his department was looking at me strangely in a hall once because I had a certain work badge the other guy wouldn't have been wearing. I said, ''Im not so and so. I'm supposed to have this badge on." Another time I was at the airport. This guy I had seen at work but relent know at all started talking to me as if I should know him.

 

My 'twin' looked almost exactly like me. The main differences being his voice was deeper, what little hair he had was wavy where mine was mostly straight, and he was married and wore a wedding ring. This guy looked so much like me that if we were standing together from 30 feet away I doubt my parents or my siblings could have told us apart for sure.

 

Gman

 

So?

 

What happened?

 

Did you ever talked to him at all? Did you talk to your parents about him?

 

Did he had a similar body type?

[+ deej]

I have a very common name.

 

When I was working for a university library there were four of us on campus. Me, non-academic staff, a prof in Architecture, a grad student in music school, and an undergrad. The undergrad developed the habit of writing bounced checks so none of us could write checks anywhere in town. (That should tell you how long ago it was.) Campus mail was constantly confusing us, and it got even worse when the grad student started corresponding with European music libraries. I was doing work on the music collection and sending things back and forth with OUR music library. We never did meet.

 

I've had several doppelgänger experiences. One was when meeting a popular escort for the first time. When he opened his hotel room door he blurted "what are you doing here?" I stammered that we had an appointment and he then told me I was a dead ringer for his father. (!) In another, I went into the local liquor store and they said "hey you left your driver's license" but I looked and it was in my wallet. Then they showed me the one that someone left and the photo did in fact look exactly like me. (Of course, a DL photo that looks exactly like me couldn't possibly be MINE.)

[+ friendofsheila]

This afternoon as I was reading some ads, I stumbled across an escort whose name is the same as one of my college roommates. I immediately thought, "I could never hire 'Joe Smith' as that would be weird." Then I wondered, what he was advertising as "Sam Fitzpatrick" - could I hire him? I might, just to meet another Sam Fitzpatrick.

 

Would you be able to hire someone with the same name as you?

 

We've gotten way-far away from the original topic here. So I'll try to re-rail us.

 

I think it would be a tiny bit odd, but not enough to make me feel put off, especially since I know already that many, many escorts use false names (at least the ones I knew).

 

What would be odd-enough about it for you, Sam, that would make you question the idea?

[Mark Gordon]

It is extremely unlikely that an escort would be using both his first and last legal names in his profession. I have met several dozen over the years and not one has done this that I know of. And for good reason.

[+ Gar1eth]

It is extremely unlikely that an escort would be using both his first and last legal names in his profession. I have met several dozen over the years and not one has done this that I know of. And for good reason.

 

I met one guy years ago who 1st worked for Dave at Man to Man and then went solo who used his real name (I had to make airplane reservations- so I know that was his name). I can't put down what his name is here because that would then be revealing his personal information when he no longer escorts. Last I heard, he moved to London.

 

Gman

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

What would be odd-enough about it for you, Sam, that would make you question the idea?

 

I'm not sure - - I think it just caught me off-guard. A day after my original post, I realize it might be unusual for a moment, but it would likely pass and I'd be fine.

[Irtwo]

I've had several doppelgänger experiences. One was when meeting a popular escort for the first time. When he opened his hotel room door he blurted "what are you doing here?" I stammered that we had an appointment and he then told me I was a dead ringer for his father. (!)

 

Wow! Now that would definitely freak me out. And I would think the escort, especially, would be too freaked out to go on with the session.

[Daverwr]

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Thanks, Gman, I loved this so much! As for me, the nearest I get to a "gym" is the dictionary.

 

This has got to be the GREATEST line in the history of the world! I have a new one for my repertoire. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

[TruHart1]

It is extremely unlikely that an escort would be using both his first and last legal names in his profession. I have met several dozen over the years and not one has done this that I know of. And for good reason.

 

I have actually met and hired a very well reviewed escort a number of times who used his legal name and not a stage name. Although he shortened the first (hard to pronounce) name to initials for simplicity's sake, he said he was actually quite proud of his name and heritage! He was one of my favorite guys but has now retired and settled down quite happily with his lover in a small Midwest town.

 

TruHart1