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<p>Identical twins exist because a fertilized egg splits in two, and also to provide us with entertaining tales of mistaken identities. A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cghb9n/twins_of_reddit_whats_your_embarrassing_story/">recent Reddit thread</a> vaguely asked for stories involving mixup with twins&#39; partners, which while the premise of many a porn, also provided a platform for all sorts of funny twin stories.</p><p>These hijinks all would have been adapted into movies in the 90s, but now, just reading will do.</p><h2>1. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Tonyracs/">Tonyracs</a> was DEFINITELY having a blast at the casino.</h2><blockquote> <p>Was going down an escalator at a casino. Look across and see my brother! Get the excites and yell HEY BRO! Start waving for his attention!<br /> Was waving to myself in a mirror.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>2. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ar72/">Ar72</a> was visited from beyond the grave.</h2><blockquote> <p>I went to a funeral of a friend&#39;s father, I had no idea that the deceased had an identical twin. It felt really strange to see the guy in the coffin sat at the front row of the Church.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>3. Artificial Intelligence is still not the most intelligent, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Menellas/">Menellas</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>My husband has an identical twin. When my husband and I got engagement photos done, Facebook automatically tagged my husband&#39;s brother in a bunch of our photos, and I posted them without realizing.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>4. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/chaoticrays/">chaoticrays</a> is probably too nice to have said &quot;you must be new here.&quot;</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m not a twin, but dated one of two twin brothers in high school. The other twin also had a girlfriend at the school. One day, someone in my class pulls me aside to nervously tell me he thinks my boyfriend is cheating on me...he was fairly new at the school and didn&#39;t know yet there were twins. It gave us all a good laugh when the story got around and the guy was pretty relieved to hear there was no cheating going on.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>5. Twin injury is the new twin telepathy, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sydneyjrw/">sydneyjrw</a>.</h2><blockquote> <p>Dad&rsquo;s friend is a twin. Lives in Chicago. His twin brother lives in Boston. On the same day, both twins fell off a ladder and broke the same leg.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>6. I hope <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lizlemoned/">lizlemoned</a>&#39;s dad and uncle aren&#39;t responsible for infrastructure.</h2><blockquote> <p>My dad is an identical twin and he and his brother went to the same university, both majored in Engineering. Apparently they used to take tests for each other, depending on who was most comfortable with the material.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>7. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ramboacdc/">ramboacdc</a> had double the chances.</h2><blockquote> <p>I fancied a twin in high school and couldn&#39;t realise why in one class she spoke to me yet in another didn&#39;t know what the f*ck i was on about. It took me 4 months and just bumping into them both on the walk home and I literally went &quot;there&#39;s 2 of you!&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>8. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Z_Doctor/">Z_Doctor</a> got lucky twice.</h2><blockquote> <p>In elementary school there was this girl who I had been irritating a lot. One time she went to my twin brother and slapped him hard in the face (or so I&#39;m told) just to realize it was the wrong twin. She got so ashamed she never tries to slap me. Win-win.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>9. Little league racketeering is no joke, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ryebread0507/">ryebread0507</a></h2><blockquote> <p>Little league baseball, second grade. I was on first and my identical twin brother was on second. The batter hit a pop fly and it was caught, but my dumb ass didn&rsquo;t know to run back to first base so I was standing on second and so was my brother. Everyone was screaming at me to run back to first but I didn&rsquo;t understand what they were saying so my twin just decided to screw it and run back to first himself. We looked completely alike back then and somehow nobody realized a different kid ran back to first so I guess it worked out in the end :)</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><hr /><h2>10. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cmgallacher/">cmgallacher</a>&#39;s &quot;wrong twin&quot; shenanigans story is the best, most succinct one of the genre.</h2><blockquote> <p>My cousin married a twin. He came up behind the one who he thought was his wife, did a two handed butt-cheek smack/grab only to make eye contact with his wife while holding her sisters butt.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><hr /><h2>11. And here&#39;s <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Rockylee5050/">Rockylee5050</a>&#39;s story, the wholesome antidote.</h2><blockquote> <p>My grandpa was so nervous and acting weird when asking my grandma to marry him, she thought it was his twin brother playing a joke on him and said no. He drove her to his house to find his twin and prove he was himself and then she said yes.</p> </blockquote><hr /><h2>12. <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/send_cats_pls/">send_cats_pls</a>&#39;s mom for the win.</h2><blockquote> <p>My mom has a twin brother. One of her pet peeves is when people ask her &quot;oh, are you identical?&quot; Her go to response is always &quot;yeah, except he has a penis.&quot; Works every time.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

12 stories of people getting identical twins confused.

Identical twins exist because a fertilized egg splits in two, and also to provide us with entertaining tales of mistaken identities. A recent Reddit thread vaguely asked for stories involving mixup with twins&#39; partners, which while the premise of many a porn, also provided a platform for all sorts of funny twin stories.These hijinks all would have been adapted into movies in the 90s, but now, just reading will do.1. Tonyracs was DEFINITELY having a blast at the casino. Was going down an escalator at a casino. Look across and see my brother! Get the excites and yell HEY BRO! Start waving for his attention! Was waving to myself in a mirror. 2. Ar72 was visited from beyond the grave. I went to a funeral of a friend&#39;s father, I had no idea that the deceased had an identical twin. It felt really strange to see the guy in the coffin sat at the front row of the Church. 3. Artificial Intelligence is still not the most intelligent, Menellas. My husband has an identical twin. When my husband and I got engagement photos done, Facebook automatically tagged my husband&#39;s brother in a bunch of our photos, and I posted them without realizing. 4. chaoticrays is probably too nice to have said &quot;you must be new here.&quot; I&#39;m not a twin, but dated one of two twin brothers in high school. The other twin also had a girlfriend at the school. One day, someone in my class pulls me aside to nervously tell me he thinks my boyfriend is cheating on me...he was fairly new at the school and didn&#39;t know yet there were twins. It gave us all a good laugh when the story got around and the guy was pretty relieved to hear there was no cheating going on. 5. Twin injury is the new twin telepathy, sydneyjrw. Dad&rsquo;s friend is a twin. Lives in Chicago. His twin brother lives in Boston. On the same day, both twins fell off a ladder and broke the same leg. 6. I hope lizlemoned&#39;s dad and uncle aren&#39;t responsible for infrastructure. My dad is an identical twin and he and his brother went to the same university, both majored in Engineering. Apparently they used to take tests for each other, depending on who was most comfortable with the material. 7. ramboacdc had double the chances. I fancied a twin in high school and couldn&#39;t realise why in one class she spoke to me yet in another didn&#39;t know what the f*ck i was on about. It took me 4 months and just bumping into them both on the walk home and I literally went &quot;there&#39;s 2 of you!&quot; 8. Z_Doctor got lucky twice. In elementary school there was this girl who I had been irritating a lot. One time she went to my twin brother and slapped him hard in the face (or so I&#39;m told) just to realize it was the wrong twin. She got so ashamed she never tries to slap me. Win-win. 9. Little league racketeering is no joke, ryebread0507 Little league baseball, second grade. I was on first and my identical twin brother was on second. The batter hit a pop fly and it was caught, but my dumb ass didn&rsquo;t know to run back to first base so I was standing on second and so was my brother. Everyone was screaming at me to run back to first but I didn&rsquo;t understand what they were saying so my twin just decided to screw it and run back to first himself. We looked completely alike back then and somehow nobody realized a different kid ran back to first so I guess it worked out in the end :) 10. cmgallacher&#39;s &quot;wrong twin&quot; shenanigans story is the best, most succinct one of the genre. My cousin married a twin. He came up behind the one who he thought was his wife, did a two handed butt-cheek smack/grab only to make eye contact with his wife while holding her sisters butt.  11. And here&#39;s Rockylee5050&#39;s story, the wholesome antidote. My grandpa was so nervous and acting weird when asking my grandma to marry him, she thought it was his twin brother playing a joke on him and said no. He drove her to his house to find his twin and prove he was himself and then she said yes. 12. send_cats_pls&#39;s mom for the win. My mom has a twin brother. One of her pet peeves is when people ask her &quot;oh, are you identical?&quot; Her go to response is always &quot;yeah, except he has a penis.&quot; Works every time. 

Identical twins exist because a fertilized egg splits in two, and also to provide us with entertaining tales of mistaken identities. A recent Reddit thread vaguely asked for stories involving mixup with twins&#39; partners, which while the...