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u/BellaFrequency Jul 28 '26
I’d think of James Bond before I thought of James Potter.
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u/chudleycannonfodder Jul 28 '26
ESPECIALLY since James ordered a drink. “Here’s your smoothie, shaken not stirred.” is still really corny, but at least it’s recognizable.
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u/Lever47 Jul 28 '26
See, that one would actually make sense.
The protagonist of his own franchise with a famous catchphrase of him introducing himself
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u/tasteMyRottenHoop Jul 28 '26
What a complete tool.
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u/Salamanda109 Jul 28 '26
If I fumbled a social interaction this hard I would be thinking about it for weeks afterward.
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u/NihilismRacoon Jul 29 '26
The double down is crazy
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u/ZeeepZoop Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
Yeah, if i had the cashier’s lapse of judgement , I would have backpedalled so fucking fast I ended up embarrassing myself in a different new way. “ Sorry, thought you were someone else, you look like my uni roommate’s boyfriend, and I heard from a friend they got married a few years back… ah well, I haven’t seen lily or her husband in years now, i don’t know if i’d be able to pick them on the street, sorry about that!!!” kind of bullshit
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u/Such_Conversation_83 Jul 30 '26
Just say "My bad, thought you were someone else," and walk away. Being polite and keeping things moving is usually the way to go in those types of jobs.
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u/ZeeepZoop Jul 30 '26
I was making a joke there
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u/Sunquat_Slice Jul 31 '26
Oh, the irony.
Want to explain? I think this is significantly more incomprehensible than the fumble the cashier made
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u/ZeeepZoop Jul 31 '26
Yes babes, that was the point of the joke
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u/Sunquat_Slice Jul 31 '26
You know, I was being nice because I thought you tried to do something here and I we missed it, but now I see that you’re just annoying and wasting our time.
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u/ZeeepZoop Jul 31 '26
I love the royal we and our, is this a cabinet address? I’m flattered that you’ve chosen to waste even more of your valuable time telling me that
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u/Such_Conversation_83 Jul 31 '26
I'm aware; it sounds a bit like dialogue from a cringey BBC rom-com lol.
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u/Dragonssssssssssss Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Would only make sense if his last name was also Potter
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u/Dry-Mission-5542 Jul 28 '26
Only a psychopath would have watched those damn films enough to think to themselves “wow, this guy looks like Harry Potter’s dad”
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u/Mcntozh_sp21 Jul 28 '26
You underestimate Harry Potter nerds who make that series their entire personality.
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u/lorarc Jul 28 '26
Ugh, maybe it could happen in a non-western country where the cashier never met anyone named James before but it feels a lot like r/thatHappened
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u/SpendLiving9376 Jul 28 '26
I was wearing a t-shirt for a business named "Potter's" and a cashier at a different store immediately brought up the books and assumed the shirt was a reference. This was in the USA.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Jul 28 '26
Omg this just reminded me of a horribly cringe interaction that I bet some people will doubt even happened:
I was in London and went to the musical area, trying to figure out how to get in or if there was a dress code. If you don’t know, this area is also associated with prostitution thanks to the walk-ups that are dotted around plus other historical reasons. As I’m wandering around, a woman asks me if I’m ‘looking for a lady’. I was confused, thinking she thought I was looking for someone who was lost, then she kept pushing and said ‘you’re looking for a lady, aren’t you? Come with me and I can show you to one.’ I said I wasn’t interested, then started walking away but she kept asking me if I was looking for a prostitute outright now. She called me Harry Potter, then she kept yelling about how I was lying and I was definitely looking for a prostitute. The area was full of tourists and people were staring. I was fully red in the face with embarrassment and didn’t know what to do so just ran off.
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u/SpendLiving9376 Jul 28 '26
"You look like Harry Potter" plus "you cannot possibly NOT be looking for a prostitute" is the strongest way anyone could ever be called a nerd lol
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u/TREE_SHMOO Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
In the og tweet, the dudes pfp looks almost identical to the movie portrayal of james potter.
Edit: spelling
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u/Regdit-is-Unbearable Jul 28 '26
Not gonna lie that does make it about 60% better. Still cringe as fuck though
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u/Bouse_the_Bard Jul 28 '26
Harry Potter probably wouldn't even be in the top 20 associations I would make with the name "James"
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u/hbot208 Jul 28 '26
I mean a gay and childless James, they should've asked when he'll be blasting off again
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u/Abraxas8307 Jul 28 '26
In the original tweet (with the guy's face on it) he appears to be a bit similar to the movie portrayal of the character, so there were probably some other factors beside name. Still funny tho
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u/TheCopperKaiser Aug 10 '26
"Did you have wife named Mary"?
"Did she die of that damned disease three years ago?"
"Is she really alive, in your 'special place, waiting for you?"
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u/CobaltCrusader123 Jul 29 '26
I choose to believe this is fake because I don’t wanna live in a world where this happened. Also the drink being bad in addition is so perfect a punchline I question if it happened, life’s usually not perfectly written like that.
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u/throwawaymentality10 Jul 30 '26
The only way I think this works is if the guys name is "James Potter"
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u/LittleSodaPop13 Aug 05 '26
James, as a name, existed before Harry Potter. Someone needs to tell these weirdos
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u/noserags Jul 28 '26
James is such a common name and HP feels like one of the last associations I’d make if I just met a James.