Reporter confusion
"How's your baby?" is a question I get about once every six months. In the last two weeks, three different people asked that same question.As a single gal living with two gold fish, I don't have a baby. But my former colleague, Jennifer Cho Salaff, pictured on the left side (or is it right?), has a baby and wrote a parenting column four years ago. She has definitely left an impression because readers still talk about those columns and attribute them Cho Salaff Leung
to me.
"Wendy, you look just like your photo in
the paper," one reader said after meeting
me for the first time. "How's your baby?"
Perhaps you need a classic reporter's fedora with a press pass that has your name tucked into the band?
:)
Or I can confuse people even more and push a stroller into the council meeting.
It's probably all those xenophobic idiots from the 99 Ranch Market post who think that all Asians look the same and can't bother to notice distinctions.
Hilarious, Wendy! Well, probably not for you. :) You would think in 2010, your average joe would be a tad more culturally savvy. Then again, a few months ago, I made a stink about why the new "Karate Kid" movie was about kung fu and not...karate. As if they're all the same...
Actually, I hate to break the news to you, but when I tell people I used to work at the Bulletin, they ask me how the baby is also...FAIL! We should start a club!
Oh how I wish I could be a member of that "club". Where is Connie Chung when we need her????
I also get confused for a co-worker. I can see how people so easily get us mixed up, she being Korean and me Mexican. We're practically twins.