Edgar Wright’s story of mistaken identity prompted people to share their own cringeworthy moments
Here’s Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead (and much else besides) director Edgar Wright sharing a brilliant moment of mistaken identity at the National Portrait Gallery a while back.
Years ago, I was at the National Portrait Gallery with my gf at the time. We passed a painting of Alan Rickman that she didn't see. To draw her attention, I whispered dramatically 'It's Snape!' in her ear. It was then I realised she'd walked off & I was talking to a random woman.
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) March 7, 2019
And it got people sharing similar tales of their own. We’ve all been there, it turns out …
1.
At the National Space Centre I once picked up my son so he could get a better look at a rocket. I was halfway through enthusiastically explaining how engines worked when my wife quietly whispered in my ear "that's not our son."
I put the child down. I walked away. Quickly.
— Dave Holloway (@DaveMedlo) March 7, 2019
2.
I walked up behind my girlfriend in HMV Covent Garden and said 'They've got South Park condoms'. It wasn't my girlfriend
— Sion Lane (@sionlane) March 7, 2019
3.
On a tour of Lancaster Castle with my family. Part of the tour involved getting locked in an old prison cell. When they shut the cell door it plunged the 20 or so guests into complete darkness. I punched my brothers arm as hard as I could, doors open, mortified Chinese tourist.
— a bit of shit (@amightystaff) March 7, 2019
4.
In 77 I was on Blackfriars Bridge with a group of mates watching the Jubilee fireworks & smoking a large spliff. After a particularly big explosion I tapped the person next to me & offered the joint. "No thanks" said a polite voice. My mates had moved & i was surrounded by nuns.
— Nick Tesco (@TheNickTesco) March 7, 2019
5.
This reminds me of the time I caught my bf asking a random woman with a similar coat in a supermarket "Why are you buying peanut-butter??"
— Myra (@invisiblemonkey) March 7, 2019
6.
I farted in the grocery and started laughing until I realized my wife had wandered off and another woman follwed me down different ailse..I later saw her talking to manager..i think she was reporting me.
— anthony mick (@anthonymick3) March 7, 2019
7.
Went to the grocerie store with my friend a couple of years ago, as she was searching for cheese, I screamed crack is wack, refering to her but crack showing, only to realise that this was not my friend, the anger in that womans eyes I will never forget…
— stop it, I like it… (@guyfromtwitta) March 7, 2019
8.
When I was a kid I was at the Drumheller Museum in Alberta & my little brother was reading the display descriptions out loud, & I was correcting his mistakes until my dad pointed out my brother had walked away & I was loudly correcting some stranger's kid
— Anathema Defence (@TheMelaniac) March 7, 2019
9.
At Glasgow airport the non Hackney cabs are all white. Coming home from trip to London I once got in a complete stranger’s white car & asked driver to take me home. One perplexed & scared stranger 😂.
— nking (@smudgesbird) March 7, 2019
And Edgar Wright added a PS to his own story.
A better end to the story would be if the random woman were @jk_rowling.
— edgarwright (@edgarwright) March 7, 2019
