Welcome Home Mo!!!

Nov 28th, 2007 by admin in Faces

I saw Tee again. (If you read post  How Did You Know It Was Me, below, this will make more sense.)

 

I was at the airport, coming home Sunday night from the Five Perfect Days. I walked up the jetway and at the end, there was my friend Tee, holding two balloons, each bearing the motto:

WELCOME HOME MO! I thought: what is she doing here? But as I approached, I didn’t want her to think I was ungrateful, so I made myself look happy to see her. Were those balloons on sale? Was “Heather” not available? What is she doing here? How did she get past security? You can’t meet people like this after 9/11. 

Her curly telephone cord hair, her cute self, scanning the crowd—she didn’t seem to see it was me. I went up to her, full throttle, pretending I was thrilled she’d gotten me Mo balloons. I was going to hug her when she snarled.

 

And looked away. This not-Tee person, waiting for the real Mo, acted huffy and weirded out as if I was the weird one. I am not the person with Mo balloons, I wanted to shout.  

(Once, I did encounter Tee at the airport, on a plane, actually, and I didn’t recognize her, but she told me it was her. I think my brain was hot-wired at that point to quickly identify Tee-like-beings at the airport as

Tees. I think the face blind brain takes location, context very very seriously. In spite of radically alarming flags, such as Mo balloons. And the fact Tee didn’t know when I was coming in, would probably be unlikely to drive and hour to meet my flight, unasked….for the face blind, Place trumps Logic.)

 

When I told Tee the story she said, “They say everyone has a twin somewhere in the world.”

 

In the face blind world, everyone has sixty thousand nine hundred gazillion twins.

  • Share/Save/Bookmark

Related posts:

  1. Tabbed File Folders and Faces
  2. Face Curve
  3. Just Another Pretty Face
  4. So if I Have Face Blindness, How Do I Find You in a Parking Lot?
  5. People Magazine Article On Face Blindness

No Comments