You know who you look like don't you?

Today I rowed. I rowed like a viking. To be honest though, I was attempting to follow the very unclear pictures on the side of the machine. Fairly confident I was doing it wrong, I made the mistake of telling my mother this. She promptly ran off to ask a trainer (Gym Instructor, not a shoe).

Brilliant. Now I get to look even more like a flid in front of a stranger.

In fact this guy was very professional and helped me out, without making me feel too much like a 6 year old. We were even talking jovially for a few minutes. Then he said those words...

"You know who you look like don't you?

Far from finding this offensive, after hearing it approximately 5 times a day on average, I simply find it irritating and redundant. Even more annoying is the stupid smirk people have when they say it. The look of a cat who's just brought you a dead animal and left it on your pristine carpet. Totally proud of himself, looking at me like I should congratulate him on his brilliant observational skills.

I answer with one of my prepared retorts

"Johnny Depp?" (Morgan Freeman, Jackie Chan and Joseph Stalin are all favourites too)

He laughs (a little too hard) and clarifies for me, in case I am still not aware of who I resemble,
"No mate, you know, Ozzy's son, Jack Osbourne"
pause for effect

Captain Meathead stares at me and as I die a little inside and answer, "oh yeah haha"

Just for everyone out there's attention, if someone resembles someone enough to make you feel the need to tell them, they already know. If someone is tall, short, has a hump or bright green hair... THEY KNOW

Noticing things is the simplest skill known to man. Quite literally anyone can do it. Its the same as people who see you have something written on your T-shirt and have to read it out to you. The person with the T-shirt is the one person who is pretty much guaranteed to know what it says.

I really hope "Jack" doesn't become my nickname with this Instructor Facepalm like it has with so many moron regulars at Blockbuster. Something tells me they actually think I enjoy it.

Anyway rant over