My school recently hired a couple of new staff for the reception desk. I interviewed them both and then spoke to them during their first day of work; very amiable girls, the sort you want as the face of any organization. On the second day one of them asked my name again (not surprising really: I forget names a lot-- especially Chinese ones-- so expect the Chinese to forget foreign names just the same).
But she knew my name; just couldn't associate with my face. She said I looked like one of the foreign teachers and she couldn't remember who was who. Well, if that foreign teacher had been Lou Diamond Phillips or an Aztec priest I could forgive her mental lapse but the guy she confused me with was much taller with short, dirty blond hair (very physically similar to my friend Matt A. AKA Hippie AKA Didgeridoo). I didn't know what to say...
"These foreigners, they all look the same," she must have thought. SL
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