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Zadanie 5. (5 pkt)


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MEETING YOUR DOUBLE AT 30,000 FEET

Having seatmates can be the most irritating part of air travel. Spending a few hours next to a chatty stranger or a noisy eater can really be a passenger's worst nightmare. But what would you do if you sat down next to… yourself?

That's just what happened to Neil Thomas Douglas, a Scottish photographer travelling to Ireland. 5.1. What he couldn't know was that Robert Stirling, a 35-year-old civil servant from Redbridge, who was sitting there, wasn't actually supposed to be in that seat. 5.2. As Mr Douglas asked the other man if he would let him take the window seat, things took a funny turn. The moment Mr Stirling raised his head, Mr Douglas noticed that the man bore a striking resemblance to him. Lee Beattie, who accompanied Mr Douglas on the trip, said they all had a laugh about it and everyone around them was amused, too. 5.3. In it, you could see two strangers looking so strikingly similar that you might want to start playing “spot the difference”. Social media users expressed surprise and even disbelief that the two men weren't related.

However, the coincidences didn't stop with that chance encounter on the airplane. 5.4. Lee Beattie says both men shared another joke about it and parted ways. Some might say that two such encounters in a day were enough, but there was still more to come. Later that night, Mr Douglas decided to go to a local pub, The Quays. And just imagine, his ‘twin' was there, too. 5.5. That one, however, clearly showed that, despite their facial similarities, Mr Douglas is a little older than Mr Stirling.

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A. When Mr Douglas checked into his hotel in Galway, he saw Mr Stirling in the lobby. It turned out the two of them had booked at the same place.
B. They all seemed to be eager to grab the opportunity to be photographed together with the two men.
C. They chatted over a drink and, obviously, took another selfie to commemorate the occasion.
D. A couple of minutes earlier, he had actually swapped places with a girl so that she wouldn't have to be separated from her boyfriend.
E. When Mr Douglas boarded his flight, he noticed that the place next to him was already occupied.
F. Encouraged by the passengers' reactions, the lookalikes decided to capture the moment,
so they took a selfie and later posted it online.