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<p>So much of getting through life is just mastering the art of blending in, faking it til you make it, or nodding until the conversation is over.</p><p>Even the most qualified people who belong in a situation struggle with impostor syndrome and pushing through to put on a confident face, so it&#39;s no wonder that confident people can easily slip through the cracks undetected.</p><p>If you&#39;ve ever found yourself at a party you weren&#39;t invited to or a job interview you were massively underqualified for, then you already know how important the art of blending in can be.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/28nsa5/what_is_the_coolest_thing_you_have_got_away_with/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared situations they got away with by pretending they were supposed to be there, and it&#39;s equal parts amusing and inspiring.</h2><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BecauseItAmusesMe/">BecauseItAmusesMe</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My brother and his new bride were taking wedding pictures at a local park with both of their families. There were two other couples doing the same thing. With so many people around, nobody knew who everyone was. I slipped into both of the other groups pictures at different times and even hugged one of the brides &amp; shook her new husband&#39;s hand.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/potatoisafruit/">potatoisafruit</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My husband said once at his work, a man came by his colleague&#39;s desk, picked up a computer and said &quot;I&#39;m going to be taking this now.&quot; The colleague, assuming he was an IT professional, said &quot;Oh, o.k.&quot; and the man walked away.</p> <p>The man meant he was going to be <em>taking</em> that computer. He walked in off the street, took a computer and apparently walked back out.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RamsesThePigeon/">RamsesThePigeon</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>There&#39;s a group called <a href="http://www.mega64.com/" rel="noopener nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Mega 64</a> who are famous for their videogame-themed short films, most of which are humorous in nature. A few years ago, they were scheduled to have their own panel at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. This was one of the few events that my friends were really excited to attend, so we made sure to show up early and (hopefully) be at the front of the line.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>As we were entering the building where the panel was taking place, we happened to fall in behind a group of about five people who seemed to have the same destination in mind. At first, I didn&#39;t think anything of it...but after a few moments, my friend Mike nudged me.</p> <p>&quot;Hey,&quot; he said, &quot;that&#39;s them. Right in front of us.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Well, then we&#39;re definitely in the right place,&quot; I replied.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>We kept following the group until we got to the main doors of the panel room... and when the attendant opened them, we walked right on in. As a result, my friends and I wound up sitting in the VIP seats at the front of the room, and we got to see the behind-the-scenes coordination and setup for the panel. In a way, it was actually better than the panel itself.</p> <p><strong>TL;DR: We&#39;re friends with the director(s).</strong></p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Still, that&#39;s not the most amusing one.</p> <p>I grew up in Napa, California, and I frequently go back there to visit my friends and family. Over the last several years, the downtown area - and yes, there is a town, it&#39;s not just vineyards - has transformed from the mundane community that I remember into its own miniature resort. There&#39;s also a yearly film festival that takes place there, with such celebrities as Gary Cole and George Clooney in attendance.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Now, needless to say, access to some of the more exclusive banquets and screenings is severely limited; you have to be a producer, director, or excessively wealthy person - each of them identified by a special badge - to even approach the doors. As it happened, though, a good friend of mine was employed at a print shop at the time of the festival...and that print shop had been commissioned to create the badges in question.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>As with any high-class event, there were a few influential people who couldn&#39;t make it. Since they couldn&#39;t make it, they were never around to pick up their badges...and since there were some unclaimed badges laying around, my friends and I decided to become members of the Hollywood Elite for an evening. We managed to sneak into a pitch meeting (where I actually discussed <a href="http://www.nearlydeparted.net/" rel="noopener nofollow ugc" target="_blank">my novel</a>), a first screening of a horror/comedy film about vampires, and a private party... and the entire time, we just pretended that we belonged there.</p> <p>To be fair, though...the badges helped.</p> <p><strong>TL;DR: We</strong> <em><strong>are</strong></em> <strong>the directors.</strong></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2><strong>4. From </strong><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/billovescurves/">billovescurves</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Got into a concert once. I was walking home past the concert venue during a downpour, stopped outside for a smoke next to the roped off smoking area where I was still covered. Just as I was finishing my cigarette one of the ushers walks over and tells me I need to stay inside the roped off area and holds it up so I can get under. Still no idea who the band was, I didn&#39;t stay long. They were singing that &quot;everyday people&quot; song from Toyota commercials several years ago.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/BrettSterling/">BrettSterling</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>For years I always kept a high visibility vest in the back of my car for emergency reasons. When I was in college I discovered that nobody looks twice at a person on the side of the road with one of these vests on, wearing a hat, with safety glasses on their face (actually racquetball glasses).</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I therefore have about 40-45 construction and general road signs in my possession that I don&#39;t know what to do with. I&#39;m also getting ready to move and don&#39;t know how to do it without arising loads of suspicion from my neighbors.</p> </blockquote><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/drafterman/">drafterman</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>The school I went to in fourth grade did recess in shifts. One day, I went out during the wrong recess. I played and had fun and the I walked back inside, heading to my classroom only to see that they were all already there, in the middle of a lesson.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The class room really wasn&#39;t a &quot;room.&quot; It was more of an open area separated from the other classrooms by partitions and didn&#39;t have doors. So I composed myself, slipped in and sat down in my seat and acted like I had always been there.</p> <p>I don&#39;t know if the teacher or anyone else noticed, but no one said anything.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Nihl/">Nihl</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was at a Phish concert in Plattsburgh, NY and they give you one of those plastic bracelets, a different color for each day&#39;s show.</p> <p>We didn&#39;t have bracelets for the 1st day&#39;s show so we asked some people if we could clip the extra dangling ends of their bracelets and pieced together 2 full bracelets out of them. Had zero issues getting in.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MjrJWPowell/">MjrJWPowell</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend was in England when the Pirates of the Caribbean 3 premiere happened. So they went. His wife and her sister got drunk and fawned over Orlando Bloom, to the point he had the manager get involved. The manager, being the gentleman he was, approached my friend and had this conversation:</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>&quot;Sir, the ladies you arrived with are bothering the other patrons. I&#39;m afraid I have to ask you to leave..!&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Do you know who I am?&quot; My friend responded.</p> <p>&quot;I&#39;m so, sorry sir.&quot; Was the managers response and he hurried off.</p> <p>They have some great pics of the wife, sister, and Orlando Bloom.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/funderthuck/">funderthuck</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I was being chased by cops, running past my house, and I was out of breath. My neighbor comes out and starts talking to me, and I didn&#39;t want to be rude, so I just talked to him. Police ran right past me. It was cool at the time, but I was 12.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We lived in a condo complex, and one of our friends moved out. We proceeded to break into the empty condo and vandalize it. It was really stupid, especially since it affected two other people&#39;s homes, aside from that one.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The cops knew it was us because there was a group of 8-9 of us walking around, checking out the commotion when the cops were called by a neighbor. The neighbor saw us, pointed, and the cops took off after us.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I was so fat, I was just out of breath, and it just happened to work out in my best interest. For about 3 hours. The cops ran past me, caught everyone else, including my sister, and they ALL, including her, gave the cops my name.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DRAWKWARD79/">DRAWKWARD79</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I got in to a fairly big music festival just by putting on a high vis vest. I had no tickets or bracelets. People generally don&#39;t want confrontation so I banked on that and enjoyed the whole day just looking half important!</p> </blockquote><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cerberus6320/">cerberus6320</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Townhouse party. Police broke up the party and started telling people to clear out. My stuff was still there so I just stood and watched people like the hosts. Hosts didn&#39;t even notice I didn&#39;t belong.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lobolita/">lobolita</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Got to meet two NBA players just by dining at the same restaurant and being nice to them. It was the best day of my life.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SpartanH089/">SpartanH089</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I dressed up really nice with my friends and said some very careful lies and went to an auto show and sat in like 12 really expensive cars because I made it look like I was rich and was going to buy one.</p> </blockquote><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/astraltek/">astraltek</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Last week I got into the Museum of Science in Boston for free accidentally by walking in behind a school group.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/loveavocados/">loveavocados</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I skipped a long wait for security check at an airport during the winter holidays. The agent assumed I was part of the family with a couple strollers.</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PhysicsIsMyMistress/">PhysicsIsMyMistress</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Bill Clinton came to my university campus a few years ago. Two friends and I cut to the front of a 1000 person line just by acting naturally.</p> </blockquote><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/vahntitrio/">vahntitrio</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>We sat in the expensive seats behind home plate at a baseball game. The usher actually recognized we weren&#39;t didn&#39;t belong there, but said we could stay if we filled out a few all-star ballots with a straight home team voting line.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/lliinnddsseeyy/">lliinnddsseeyy</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>First year of college, heard there was a private party going on in the top floor of one of the buildings. A couple of my friends and I decided to go check it out, they realized it was a party for the Master&#39;s students and decided not to walk in with me. So my fresh-faced 18 year old self walks into a room of people who are (on average) 25 years old, and I just pretend like I know what I&#39;m doing. Turns out it was a black light party, and this just happened to be laundry day, so instead of my normal dark jeans/black t-shirt getup, I walk in looking like a fucking backstreet boy in white pants and a white shirt.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I was given free beer and &quot;adopted&quot; by one of the professors once she figured me out, she told everyone I was studying econometrics with her. S**t was cash, it was also the only time I was ever put in the middle of a dance circle and cheered for afterwards. My friends thought I got kidnapped.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/monkey0410/">monkey0410</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>One time on new years eve, a friend and I wanted to get in to a party at Gladstones in long beach, Travis Pastrana had just jumped a car off the pier onto a barge and he was at this party. We saw some folks from Quicksilver walking in so we walked in behind them. When the bouncer asked what company the two people in front of us were with they said quicksilver and we stood really close behind them and just nodded. They gave us badges for quicksilver and let us in.</p> </blockquote><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CinnaTheUgly/">CinnaTheUgly</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I always wore a suit to high school on Friday&#39;s, as a joking protest to my teachers casual Friday, and we had a teacher no call/no show on a day of a state evaluation. I get up and start to jokingly teach the class after waiting for 10-15 minutes. State evaluators come into class. I ask them how they are and play it off as a sub. They left a note to my principal on how nice and sincere I was. I get called down later that day and the principal said thanks for saving his ass. Coolest day ever.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share the coolest thing they’ve gotten away with by pretending to fit in.

So much of getting through life is just mastering the art of blending in, faking it til you make it, or nodding until the conversation is over.Even the most qualified people who belong in a situation struggle with impostor syndrome and pushing through to put on a confident face, so it&#39;s no wonder that confident people can easily slip through the cracks undetected.If you&#39;ve ever found yourself at a party you weren&#39;t invited to or a job interview you were massively underqualified for, then you already know how important the art of blending in can be.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared situations they got away with by pretending they were supposed to be there, and it&#39;s equal parts amusing and inspiring.1. From BecauseItAmusesMe: My brother and his new bride were taking wedding pictures at a local park with both of their families. There were two other couples doing the same thing. With so many people around, nobody knew who everyone was. I slipped into both of the other groups pictures at different times and even hugged one of the brides &amp; shook her new husband&#39;s hand. 2. From potatoisafruit: My husband said once at his work, a man came by his colleague&#39;s desk, picked up a computer and said &quot;I&#39;m going to be taking this now.&quot; The colleague, assuming he was an IT professional, said &quot;Oh, o.k.&quot; and the man walked away. The man meant he was going to be taking that computer. He walked in off the street, took a computer and apparently walked back out. 3. From RamsesThePigeon: There&#39;s a group called Mega 64 who are famous for their videogame-themed short films, most of which are humorous in nature. A few years ago, they were scheduled to have their own panel at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. This was one of the few events that my friends were really excited to attend, so we made sure to show up early and (hopefully) be at the front of the line.  As we were entering the building where the panel was taking place, we happened to fall in behind a group of about five people who seemed to have the same destination in mind. At first, I didn&#39;t think anything of it...but after a few moments, my friend Mike nudged me. &quot;Hey,&quot; he said, &quot;that&#39;s them. Right in front of us.&quot; &quot;Well, then we&#39;re definitely in the right place,&quot; I replied.  We kept following the group until we got to the main doors of the panel room... and when the attendant opened them, we walked right on in. As a result, my friends and I wound up sitting in the VIP seats at the front of the room, and we got to see the behind-the-scenes coordination and setup for the panel. In a way, it was actually better than the panel itself. TL;DR: We&#39;re friends with the director(s).  Still, that&#39;s not the most amusing one. I grew up in Napa, California, and I frequently go back there to visit my friends and family. Over the last several years, the downtown area - and yes, there is a town, it&#39;s not just vineyards - has transformed from the mundane community that I remember into its own miniature resort. There&#39;s also a yearly film festival that takes place there, with such celebrities as Gary Cole and George Clooney in attendance.  Now, needless to say, access to some of the more exclusive banquets and screenings is severely limited; you have to be a producer, director, or excessively wealthy person - each of them identified by a special badge - to even approach the doors. As it happened, though, a good friend of mine was employed at a print shop at the time of the festival...and that print shop had been commissioned to create the badges in question.  As with any high-class event, there were a few influential people who couldn&#39;t make it. Since they couldn&#39;t make it, they were never around to pick up their badges...and since there were some unclaimed badges laying around, my friends and I decided to become members of the Hollywood Elite for an evening. We managed to sneak into a pitch meeting (where I actually discussed my novel), a first screening of a horror/comedy film about vampires, and a private party... and the entire time, we just pretended that we belonged there. To be fair, though...the badges helped. TL;DR: We are the directors. 4. From billovescurves: Got into a concert once. I was walking home past the concert venue during a downpour, stopped outside for a smoke next to the roped off smoking area where I was still covered. Just as I was finishing my cigarette one of the ushers walks over and tells me I need to stay inside the roped off area and holds it up so I can get under. Still no idea who the band was, I didn&#39;t stay long. They were singing that &quot;everyday people&quot; song from Toyota commercials several years ago. 5. From BrettSterling: For years I always kept a high visibility vest in the back of my car for emergency reasons. When I was in college I discovered that nobody looks twice at a person on the side of the road with one of these vests on, wearing a hat, with safety glasses on their face (actually racquetball glasses).  I therefore have about 40-45 construction and general road signs in my possession that I don&#39;t know what to do with. I&#39;m also getting ready to move and don&#39;t know how to do it without arising loads of suspicion from my neighbors. 6. From drafterman: The school I went to in fourth grade did recess in shifts. One day, I went out during the wrong recess. I played and had fun and the I walked back inside, heading to my classroom only to see that they were all already there, in the middle of a lesson.  The class room really wasn&#39;t a &quot;room.&quot; It was more of an open area separated from the other classrooms by partitions and didn&#39;t have doors. So I composed myself, slipped in and sat down in my seat and acted like I had always been there. I don&#39;t know if the teacher or anyone else noticed, but no one said anything. 7. From Nihl: I was at a Phish concert in Plattsburgh, NY and they give you one of those plastic bracelets, a different color for each day&#39;s show. We didn&#39;t have bracelets for the 1st day&#39;s show so we asked some people if we could clip the extra dangling ends of their bracelets and pieced together 2 full bracelets out of them. Had zero issues getting in. 8. From MjrJWPowell: My friend was in England when the Pirates of the Caribbean 3 premiere happened. So they went. His wife and her sister got drunk and fawned over Orlando Bloom, to the point he had the manager get involved. The manager, being the gentleman he was, approached my friend and had this conversation:  &quot;Sir, the ladies you arrived with are bothering the other patrons. I&#39;m afraid I have to ask you to leave..!&quot; &quot;Do you know who I am?&quot; My friend responded. &quot;I&#39;m so, sorry sir.&quot; Was the managers response and he hurried off. They have some great pics of the wife, sister, and Orlando Bloom. 9. From funderthuck:  I was being chased by cops, running past my house, and I was out of breath. My neighbor comes out and starts talking to me, and I didn&#39;t want to be rude, so I just talked to him. Police ran right past me. It was cool at the time, but I was 12.  We lived in a condo complex, and one of our friends moved out. We proceeded to break into the empty condo and vandalize it. It was really stupid, especially since it affected two other people&#39;s homes, aside from that one.  The cops knew it was us because there was a group of 8-9 of us walking around, checking out the commotion when the cops were called by a neighbor. The neighbor saw us, pointed, and the cops took off after us.  I was so fat, I was just out of breath, and it just happened to work out in my best interest. For about 3 hours. The cops ran past me, caught everyone else, including my sister, and they ALL, including her, gave the cops my name. 10. From DRAWKWARD79: I got in to a fairly big music festival just by putting on a high vis vest. I had no tickets or bracelets. People generally don&#39;t want confrontation so I banked on that and enjoyed the whole day just looking half important! 11. From cerberus6320: Townhouse party. Police broke up the party and started telling people to clear out. My stuff was still there so I just stood and watched people like the hosts. Hosts didn&#39;t even notice I didn&#39;t belong. 12. From lobolita: Got to meet two NBA players just by dining at the same restaurant and being nice to them. It was the best day of my life. 13. From SpartanH089: I dressed up really nice with my friends and said some very careful lies and went to an auto show and sat in like 12 really expensive cars because I made it look like I was rich and was going to buy one. 14. From astraltek: Last week I got into the Museum of Science in Boston for free accidentally by walking in behind a school group. 15. From loveavocados: I skipped a long wait for security check at an airport during the winter holidays. The agent assumed I was part of the family with a couple strollers. 16. From PhysicsIsMyMistress: Bill Clinton came to my university campus a few years ago. Two friends and I cut to the front of a 1000 person line just by acting naturally. 17. From vahntitrio:  We sat in the expensive seats behind home plate at a baseball game. The usher actually recognized we weren&#39;t didn&#39;t belong there, but said we could stay if we filled out a few all-star ballots with a straight home team voting line. 18. From lliinnddsseeyy: First year of college, heard there was a private party going on in the top floor of one of the buildings. A couple of my friends and I decided to go check it out, they realized it was a party for the Master&#39;s students and decided not to walk in with me. So my fresh-faced 18 year old self walks into a room of people who are (on average) 25 years old, and I just pretend like I know what I&#39;m doing. Turns out it was a black light party, and this just happened to be laundry day, so instead of my normal dark jeans/black t-shirt getup, I walk in looking like a fucking backstreet boy in white pants and a white shirt.  I was given free beer and &quot;adopted&quot; by one of the professors once she figured me out, she told everyone I was studying econometrics with her. S**t was cash, it was also the only time I was ever put in the middle of a dance circle and cheered for afterwards. My friends thought I got kidnapped. 19. From monkey0410: One time on new years eve, a friend and I wanted to get in to a party at Gladstones in long beach, Travis Pastrana had just jumped a car off the pier onto a barge and he was at this party. We saw some folks from Quicksilver walking in so we walked in behind them. When the bouncer asked what company the two people in front of us were with they said quicksilver and we stood really close behind them and just nodded. They gave us badges for quicksilver and let us in. 20. From CinnaTheUgly:  I always wore a suit to high school on Friday&#39;s, as a joking protest to my teachers casual Friday, and we had a teacher no call/no show on a day of a state evaluation. I get up and start to jokingly teach the class after waiting for 10-15 minutes. State evaluators come into class. I ask them how they are and play it off as a sub. They left a note to my principal on how nice and sincere I was. I get called down later that day and the principal said thanks for saving his ass. Coolest day ever. 