Met a guy at a diner in Ohio who looked exactly like a young Tom Hanks

I was grabbing breakfast at this truck stop outside Toledo last Wednesday, just trying to get some eggs before my next haul. This older guy sits down at the counter next to me and I swear he could have been Tom Hanks from the Big era, same smile and everything. We got to talking and he had no idea who Tom Hanks was, said people told him that for 20 years. He was a retired farmer from Indiana just passing through on his way to see his daughter in Pennsylvania. I snapped a quick pic of him eating his pancakes, and when I showed my buddy back at the yard he thought I photoshopped it. Has anyone else run into a lookalike in the wild like that where the person themselves didn't even believe it?

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gray_gibson18d ago

wait, did the guy actually have some old photos of himself or anything to prove he'd been told that for 20 years? that part makes me wonder if he was messing with you or if he genuinely had no clue who Tom Hanks was. lol that would be wild if he was just some dude who looked like a movie star his whole life and never saw the resemblance.

perez.christopher18d ago

Nah, I bet he was just messing with you, no way nobody told him.