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(Bill Nye FTW!)

But seriously.

I was sitting here, surfing through the GD and I came across a topic about resembling your parents either now or when you were younger. Someone that responded mentioned sounding like their mother on the phone, and often they found that when they DID answer the phone, people would just start talking to her like her mother.

THIS stirred a thought in my mind.

There are times when I call my boyfriend. Every time that his mother picks up the phone I ask to speak to her son and she goes, "Oh yeah, I'll go get him...is this Jacob?"

FIRST OF ALL! Jacob is a our friend...who is male.
SECOND! I am definitely not Jacob nor bear any resemblence to Jacob in any way shape or form...
THIRD! (although it goes along with point number 2...) I rather think (and I know this for a fact) that I sound five years younger on the phone. So...
THEREFORE! Even if one has never heard my voice before or Jacob's...I would have reason to believe that one could distinguish one voice from the other. If anything, as being completely different...and possibly mistaking mine for an elevn year old girl...which Jacob definitely does not sound like. At all.

Anyway, every single time my boyfriend's mother answer's the phone and asks if I'm Jacob, I politely respond, "No, this is Kelsey."

And then she proceeds to laugh at her stupidity and apologizes to me profusely.


Here's what I want you to consider:

Is the fact that I'm repeatedly mistaken for Jacob over the phone more of an insult to me? Or Jacob?


I'm certainly having a very hard time figuring this out for myself. Although, I particularly don't care...(the mother in question can be quite...questional at best)...although it gets annoying after almost seven months...you'd think hearing my voice at least once in a while would make it a little easier...but I suppose not.