May 25, 2004

You See What You Look For

When we got our first Jeep back in 1998, I immediately noticed how many Jeeps were on the road. Clearly, they didn't suddenly materialize on the road the day after we got ours; they were there all along and I just never noticed before. The same thing happened when we upgraded Jeeps a few years later (interestingly, the opposite happened back in December when we traded the Jeep in on a Pacifica - we saw them all over the place before, but seemingly not so much now).

I was waiting to fly out from Fort Wayne last Tuesday when I saw (at a distance, and from behind) someone who looked so much like a co-worker I wanted to call out his name just to check. Maybe that put me in the appropriate frame of mind, because over the next several hours and two airports, I saw dead ringers for the following people:

  • My sister who lives in San Francisco (ironically, boarding a flight to SFO)
  • Amber from Survivor
  • Two other co-workers
  • Ronnie Lott
  • Caroline Kennedy (at age 21)
The kicker? I found out when I got back that the guy who started me down this path was indeed the co-worker I thought he might have been. There's probably some psychological theory that can neatly explain all of this.

Posted by Chris at May 25, 2004 02:02 PM

Category: General Weirdness
Comments

Yeah - you're a whack-job.

Posted by: Bill from INDC Journal at May 25, 2004 03:45 PM

Yes, Ockam's Razor does point me in that direction, but I was wondering if there was a more universal explanation (and no, "Everyone's a whack-job" doesn't count).

Posted by: Chris at Dangerous Logic at May 25, 2004 05:14 PM