stern-faced

I asked two women walking in the village for directions to traders joe's yesterday.
They didn't know.
Then one asked, "did you go to stern."
I said "not at all," thinking she meant NYU's Stern and wondering why she would ask.
Then I reevaluated the question - "Stern College or Stern School of Business?"
"Stern College," she clarified.
"No, neither."
"I teach there."
I thought the whole exchange was odd. Had she mistaken me for a specific indiviual she had taught or just thought I looked the part?
With tongue fimrly in cheek, though in a very friendly tone, I said, "We all look the same," to which she laughed rather heartilly.

Now, if someone ever accused me of making a they-all-look-the-same mistake I think I would be embarassed, no? *

Well, whatever, I just thought it was odd. Just goes to show I have a reason to be self-conscious about wearing socks on my head every day.

*Insert rant about how only certain priveleged identities get the benefits of political correctness...