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Tony Hawklooks a lot like Tony Hawk, according to employees at a local coffee shop in Lincolnton, North Carolina.
“He was nice, and I love that he chose my place,” the owner of the coffee shop told PEOPLE in a statement. “I hate I missed a photo or autograph opportunity from someone I idolized as a child, but it happens. I doubted myself and in a packed house, no one else batted an eye so I didn’t want to confidently say, ‘You’re Tony Hawk.’ "
“But I’m stoked that he chose us and stoked that he liked his Americano,” she added.
The Grounded Instagram account also shared apicture of his receipton Friday, captioning the post, “Y’all know I’m fan girling over here!”
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This isn’t the first time Hawk has been told that he looks like himself; in fact, the skate pro has a history of documenting encounters with people who tell him the same thing. In 2017,he took to Twitterto post about a TSA agent checking his ID and telling him, “Hawk! Like that skateboarder Tony Hawk,” adding, “I wonder what he’s up to these days.”
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In 2019,Hawk told PEOPLEthat he’s used to having people almost recognize him. “It happens quite a bit, and honestly I’ve stopped sharing every encounter because a lot of them are redundant, but it’s mostly because that’s where they check your ID,” he said.
Explained Hawk: “So my ID says Anthony, that’s my real name, no one’s ever called me Anthony through my life, but there sets the first bar of confusion, and then they see me and they’re used to seeing me at a younger age, because maybe they only know me from video game days, 20 years ago.”
source: people.com
