"Hi Mommy"

[xeney]

I can top all of these stories. My husband has very long hair that he wears in a ponytail, so when my kid sees a skinny person in cycling gear, wearing a helmet with a long ponytail hanging out behind, she immediately points and says, "DaDa!"

Ninety percent of the time, it's a teenage girl.

[Pax]

I had a toddler come up to me in a department store and wrap himself around my leg sobbing "momeeeeee", I think he was lost and thought he'd found his mom. I stood there for a second and then reached down to comfort him, he made eye contact and started screaming. Fortunately mommy heard the screams and came running (he was still clutching my leg), she looked at him then looked at me and as she was prying him off said "you look terrified, you're not a mom right?".

[silver]

Another good mistaken identity story....

We have a friend who is a reproductive endocrinologist (he does in-vitro fertilization)....He complained that women were always greeting him in public and introducing him as "this is the man who got me pregnant!"