Do I know you?

Yesterday I received a phone call from someone I didn’t recognize asking for Jack. I told the guy on the phone he wasn’t here but I could take a message. He gave me his name then asked how I was doing. I told him I was fine. He then asked how the weather was and informed me he was in Colorado now. I just said, “oh”. I had no idea who he was. It turns out I sorta do know who he is after I told Jack he called. I only met him a few times… It was Jack’s old neighbor before we lived together.

The call reminded me of the Taco Bell dude. One night we went through the drive through for dinner and when we approached the window to pay and pick up our food, the cashier saw Jack and exclaimed, “Oh it’s you! How are you? Did you see the game? How about them Mariners?!” Jack replied that he was fine, no he didn’t see the game and hasn’t watched the Mariners in a while. Taco Bell dude said that was a bummer and gave us a free drink. As we pulled away I asked Jack if he knew the guy and he said he had no idea who he was.

A few weeks later we went through Taco Bell again and Taco Bell dude was working. Once again when he saw Jack he said, “Hi man! How’s it going? Good to see you! DUDE did you watch the game??” Jack said no. Smiled. The guy gave us another free something-or-other and we drove away baffled. I kept asking Jack, “are you SURE you don’t know him??” He insisted he didn’t.

The third time it happened Jack just played along. He was all DUDE right back at him, smiling, saying the game was awesome (he’s not into sports) while I tried to keep a straight face. We drove away laughing hysterically. We haven’t seen him again, which isn’t surprising. Taco Bell workers last about a month max. To this day it’s a mystery to us who he was. He would just be so excited to see Jack and we’d just be so clueless.

Has this happened to you? Should we have asked him how we knew him? Or if he was mistaken? We think he was mistaken. Jack doesn’t watch sports at all (unless you count the TV’s at our favorite pizza place that always have sports going muted with closed captioning) and he hasn’t been to a Mariner’s game in years.

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