My friend Chloe and I love instagram reels, we don’t see each other that often as she’s got a busy career, lifts weights a lot, is an extrovert with a busy social life – and I have kids and am super busy with all that, and am also an introvert.
But we love nothing more than a running joke on instagram reels, if either of us come across the “yeet yeet skrrrt” reel with Pete Davidson, that’s being sent, or “turning the freaking frogs gay” by whoever that loony is. Duck videos, cute little dawgs and weird existential cartoons.
Anyway, I was driving in town and saw her walking – she is tall, with many many tattoos, piercings and always in gym gear. I’m delighted!! This is my time to shine. I roll down the windows and as I approach, shout “THEYRE TURNING THE FREAKING FROGS GAY!”
She looks up, we lock eyes, and I realise too late that even though Chloe has a really specific look, it appears there is another woman in my small town who looks the same as Chloe from the back.
I pause briefly. The woman looks scared. I know that nothing I can say will explain or excuse me just screaming at her about gay frogs 🐸. I cannot reassure her without further fucking up. I smile awkwardly and drive off. Chloe thought it was hilarious when I told her, but I was MORTIFIED. I’m so sorry, Chloe doppelgänger. I hope you’re doing ok.
Tl;dr – I yelled “they’re turning the freaking frogs gay” at an innocent woman who resembled my friend Chloe, as it’s a running insta reel we send each other. Mortification ensued.
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>I know that nothing I can say will explain or excuse me just screaming at her about gay frogs
Your fuck up was not understanding this is just completely not true.
Literally anyone else would have said “oh my God, I’m sorry, I thought you were someone else, that was an inside joke we had, my bad”
And then you would have both laughed about it and moved on.
At no point did I know where this was going 😭 maybe invest in an eye test
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I’ve done this. It’s pretty funny when you get over the embarrasment.
A kind of similar thing happened to me. I had this friend Matto who had, shall we say, a twisted sense of humour. He addressed male friends as, “you poof”, the first time he saw goatse, he thought it was the funniest thing he’d ever seen and burst out laughing, etc. He also had an identical twin brother who didn’t share his sense of humour.
One day, I saw what I thought was Matto from behind, so I walked up, hugged him from behind, and greeted him, “Matto, ya poof!” Of course, it actually his twin brother, who turned around looking confused. I awkwardly apologised for the mistake.
I later found out the another one of my friends had previously done exactly the same thing. The poor guy must have had a regular stream of people mistaking him for his twisted brother.
At least you weren’t on foot and physically grabbed her while yelling an inside joke in her ear? Could have been worse!
I would have killed to be there to see. Sounds hilarious.
Years ago, we went into the shop my ex husband’s sister worked at – a luxury chocolate shop chain in the UK – and he snuck up behind her, whispering directly in her ear in a creepy voice ‘does this shop sell chocolate?’.
Of course it wasn’t his sister, it was a colleague with very similar hair. She took it well to be fair but he nearly died of embarrassment and I nearly died laughing!
Yeah, that loony who’s totally loony, turns out they are putting chemocals in the water that turned frogs gay. It seems the world is loony, not just one guy.
This is so embarrassing😭😭😭
the art of 3D printing, creating monsters and conspiracy theories one layer at a time. 😆
Always remember, folks: Think before you speak, double check before you shout.
The phrase is from Alex Jones of Info Wars. If you want some extra gay frog amusement, the Alex Jones folk song is hilarious.
I’m not sure if this is the one you found on Insta, but this is what comes to mind for me, and now it’ll be stuck in my head for weeks.
“I’m tired of them puttimg chemicals in the water! Do you understand that?!”
“sorry, I thought you were someone else” is pretty universally acceptable from a stranger