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Lending new meaning to the desire to ‘find oneself’ while traveling, a tourist in Iceland unknowingly joined a search party for several hours to locate, well, herself.

The cluster-fuck began when the woman, taking part in a group coach tour, briefly nipped to the toilet to freshen up and put on a change of clothes. When the woman returned, her bus mates didn’t recognise her (WTF?). The tour operators mistakingly thought the woman was missing when they couldn’t place her, proceeding to search for their ‘lost traveller’.

The baffling component to this story is the fact that when word of a missing traveller spread throughout the group, the woman in question didn’t even recognise her own description.

Nek minut, a search party of fifty-strong was formed. The woman, keen to help (bless her soul), joined the search party, which covered an expansive amount of surrounding land. The coast guard was even preparing an emergency chopper.

At 3am, some genius in the group came to the stark realisation (before the actual woman, mind you) that the missing woman actually belonged to the search party. Many red faces later, the search group disbanded.

So like, did she come out of the bathroom in disguise? Fake moustache and all?  Is her sense of self-image so fractured that she didn’t suspect for a minute that the missing woman bore some resemblance to herself?

Either way, not many people can say that they’ve literally discovered themselves.

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