This could happen to you!

a very funny story of mistaken identity relating to those “inscrutable Chinese” etc etc

"I have no idea who they were expecting. Being Chinese, they were inscrutable and if they were expecting someone else they didn’t show it. Perhaps they thought I was a prodigy. They all called me professor.

news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.j … hina19.xml

it almost did, once.