This story is getting stale, but a funny thing happened the day after I got laid off, and I was at home starting my job search. The doorbell rang and I went to the door. You'll never guess who it was. The Jehovah's witness who spoke to me Wednesday morning was an attractive woman named Debbie about my age. In the middle of trying to dissuade me from atheism, which featured a question about evidence concerning God's existence, she stopped to make an amusing remark.
Her eyes got big and she laughed at herself before she said, "You know, you look just like Don Henley. Do folks every tell you that?"
I don't think I look that much like Don Henley, but I assume this was a compliment since she and I are about as old as Don Henley. If she and her two backups hadn't been dressed in dark clothes with a serious demeanor, maybe I'd have asked if she was a groupie. If I could sing (which I can't), I'd have tried singing a bar or two of one of his songs.
Okay, I have long, swept back hair and deep lines on either side of my mouth, and that looks kinda like Don Henley. Otherwise, nah. Usually folks who tell me I look like someone famous are trying to sell me something. That applies here too, but she looked like she meant it. [David McCusker]
Uh, but David... you do resemble Don Henley. With shorter hair, you'd probably resemble him rather strongly (or with longer hair, he'd resemble you rather strongly).
BTW, it bites that you got laid off, and the manner of it, especially after the requests they made wrt your search, is flat unethical. Oh well. Upward and onward.
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