This happens to my sister and me all the time. Our faces are basically the same but I’m six inches taller with light hair and blue eyes and she’s dark-haired with green eyes. Once we were telling these guys that a server thought we were a couple because my sister had said something about making us breakfast and they…

This has happened a few times, but the worst worst worst was when my father and I were flying home from Hungary (where he grew up and where I’d just had two wisdom teeth pulled). I was 21 and he was 57 and when we checked in for the flight with the same last name, the gate agent asked, “Is the couple expecting a…