Just a little ranting.
My sister and I watched a movie during which a classic error is made. A boy and girl are in love, but haven't yet professed the love. The boy introduces the girl to another girl. "Sally, this is Jill." Girl number one thinks girl number two and boy are dating. Confusion commenses. Girl number two is actually related to boy. Eventually the error is realized and everything works out.
What a easy and perfect upset for a new relationship to hit. Realistic too, right?
WRONG! The reason this doesn't happen in real life. 1) No matter how close siblings or cousins are, how many have you mistaken for dating? I don't mean at a quick glance, I mean after watching them for five minutes. NO, it doesn't happen. No siblings cuddle (or at least they shouldn't be) in such a way that you'd mistake them for dating. 2) The second reason this doesn't happen is that in the real, non-hollywood, version of life, you state your relationships when you do introductions. "This is my cousin, Jill." "This is Pete, my friend from school." Unless the relationship is obvious or you don't have one, people typically state their relationships, especially when introducing to people who are significant to them.
Am I wrong? Of course not. In real life have any of you had this issue? Please let me know if you have b/c that has got to be an entertaining story.
That was your cousin? Dang! We could have hooked up months ago if I hadn't been under the impression you two were dating. Imagine someone saying that to you. *awkward*-in so many ways!
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I do know of a brother and sister that I know are brother and sister and aside from the fact that they look like each other I would definitely have thought they were a couple. Sick, I know.
I just caught up on your blog! (yes I have read it before, didn't you know??? haha) Anyways. I have an experience relating to this. Sad Right? Yes. Very. Okay, so my cousin and I were at a football game together maybe almost two years ago. We have fun together and laugh with each other and tease each other, because we are that close. What we didn't realize is we were looking like we liked each other. So my now friend Weston looks over at my cousin (who was a good friend of his at the time) and says "dude why don't you ask her out already!?!"... My cousin looks over and says "GROSS that's my cousin!" Yeah... I said it at the same time too! Talk about awkward. EXTREMELY awkward. So my point: this has happened to me. And I wasn't on the other end. I was on the "looking like I like my own cousin" end. It was weird. Indeed it was!
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