A person was baffled after assembly his doppelganger on a flight with the identical identify, hobbies and even a mutual pal.
The weird incident began when the pair, each known as Mark Garland, tried to verify for a similar flight from Heathrow to Thailand. The youthful Mark, 58, a bus driver from Trowbridge in Wiltshire, was informed by workers that he had “already checked in.”
After 40 minutes employees on the Eva Air flight realised there were two Mark Garlands on board but the similarities didn’t end there. When they met in the departures lounge the strangers couldn’t believe how similar they looked, both sporting shaved heads.
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And when Mark bought to his seat on the airplane he was sitting proper subsequent to the “different’ Mark, a 62-year-old builder from Warmley in Bristol.
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They additionally found they reside simply 15 miles aside and builder Mark even typically will get on Mark’s bus.
Bus driver Mark stated: “We have been so shocked by how unusual it was.
“We each stored laughing and smiling about it, it made me completely satisfied.
“I stated ‘you have caused me so much problems’, and he stated ‘you have caused me so much problems’.
“I stated, ‘look I’m Mark Garland’, displaying him my passport, and he began laughing and opened his passport and confirmed me his identify, and it was banter.
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“I’m a bus driver, and Mark said he sometimes uses my bus. One of my colleagues knows him and goes for drinks in the pub with him.”
Builder Mark added: “It was crazy – I have never known anything like it.
“I’m better looking and older. He’s like me, I’ve got a character and I love winding people up – we’re the same. He’s actually a nice bloke, I’ve got to say.”
The pair even have a mutual love of Thailand – racking up practically 100 journeys between the 2 of them – and now plan to keep up a correspondence and have a beer throughout their holidays.
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