There was free food at work yesterday, and it was the rare kind of free food that didn't come with a lecture. We actually got a chance to sit around and shoot the breeze. Somehow, we got to the topic of people being mistaken for one another, and everyone commented on how much Sean looked like summer intern Austin. Everyone at the table, it seemed, had a story of doing a double take or thinking one of them was the other and other hilarity. Everyone, that is, except for me.
It wasn't until that conversation that I realized that Austin and Sean were two separate people.
Sometimes, one can be so face blind not as even to realize when people look like other people. Sometimes, one can block out an entire person's existence due to a lack of awareness. It wasn't until Rachel mentioned where Austin's desk was that I realized that that person wasn't Sean (I guess I assumed he moved his desk after the summer ended).
