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What kind of job interview IS THIS?

So this dude named Guy goes to the BBC to apply for a job.

When he thinks he's going to get interviewed for said job, he gets shuffled into a studio and ends up in the hot seat on Live TV getting interviewed about arcane technology law.

Turns out that they thought he was someone else--an IT expert with the same first name.

His face, when he realizes what's going on, is awesome. She's asking him really tricky questions, and he just rolls with it, answering them the best he can.

Sometimes you just roll with it.

Today on the Vocalo Overdrive, we bring you stories of rolling with identity mistakes.

Lo siento. Yo soy...um, not actually Mexican.

Even though she has no Latin@ ancestry whatsoever, because of how she looks, people come up to Maggie speaking en Espanol.  So she figured she might as well learn...and she did.

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Hey Luis, why won't my car start?

Several years back, a mysterious woman started calling Lou. He didn't know who she was at all, but she acted like she knew him. And one thing she "knew" about him was that he was a car mechanic...

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Plus YOUR stories of  when someone insists they know you, but you have NO CLUE what they're talking about, but you want to be nice so you go along with it.

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Then, more of YOUR stories of when someone assumes something about you that's totally wrong, but instead of correcting them, you go along with it.

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Got a story of when your identity was mistaken? Call 888.635.1112 to share yours.

xoxo,

sarah.e.lu

Our stories: Engaging. Our conversations: Lively. Our music: Nifty. The Overdrive team is Luis Perez, Shantell Jamison, and Sarah Lu, and we're on-air Monday through Friday from 4-7 pm.

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