Your final exclamation suggests that you doubt your own assessment that anyone could be so irrational as to blame you for their mistake. But Miss Manners assures you it is actually a common which is not to say acceptable reaction in such situations. The correct way to react to being mistaken for someone else will depend on the other person's behavior. It is an embarrassing situation for them, so if they make a genuine apology, help them out by accepting the apology quickly and changing the subject.
Jordan Dean Roddick (28) of Hill Street, Dublin 2, Shane Kinsella (27) of Canon Lillis Avenue, Seville Place, Dublin 2 and Ross Law (29) Alfie Byrne House, Grenville Street, Rotunda Dublin 1, each pleaded guilty to assaulting the man causing him harm in Spar on Gardiner Street on May 18, 2024.
I'm Bill DeBlasio. I've always been Bill DeBlasio, he said from Florida. I never once said I was the mayor. [The journalist] never addressed me as the mayor. So I just gave him my opinion. I could have corrected him, he added. It was all in good fun. I never thought it would make it to print.
Federal authorities in Idaho confirmed that a search for Travis Decker in the Sawtooth National Forest was concluded after a case of mistaken identity. A family had reported seeing a man resembling Decker, who is wanted for the deaths of his three daughters in Washington state.