me, holding a pizza box and shouting: SUE!

customer walks up

me: sue?

customer opens the box, frowns, and sticks her finger in the pizza: i didn’t order pepperoni

me, with a voice devoid of any emotion: ……. sue?

customer: oh! no i’m (name)!

the actual sue, materializing at my elbow: is that a pizza for sue?

me: would you like some free breadsticks to eat while we remake you pizza? another customer touched it

‘another customer’ sheepishly mumbles sorry

sue, who has clearly worked with the public: you take as long as you need to, honey

Bless you, Sue

The most egregious iteration of this I’ve ever heard was from a friend, who was in her doctor’s office waiting room, and when the nurse called her name, she started to get up, but then another, older woman did.

And she kind of thought “Oh, weird,” but she does have a relatively common first name so she didn’t think that much about it.

A few minutes later the nurse reappears and exasperatedly calls my friend’s name again.

The other woman had decided to try to pretend to be her in order to get in to see the doctor faster.