The first thing people think about when they think Tony Hawk is that he's undoubtedly the most famous skateboarder of all time. The second thing is that no one ever believes he's actually him.

For years, Hawk has been tweeting about instances in which people run into him and comment on how he looks like Tony Hawk Some have even gone so far as to look at his ID, see his name is "Anthony Hawk," and chalk it up to a crazy coincidence.

Yesterday, Hawk added to the long list of such posts with a truly comical scenario. The story begins in an elevator with three other people. One man sees his chance to add to the joke and gets halfway through it before his wife stops him. Hawk and the couple laugh about it, when the fourth man, unaware of what's going on, asks what's happening. After Hawk explains, he gets told he "looks like Tony Hawk a lot," the man laughs and blissfully walks away, unaware he was speaking to the real Tony Hawk.

(elevator stops, couple exits to their floor)
Other guy: “what’s the joke?”
Me: I get mistaken identity a lot
Him: “mistaken for who?”
Me: Tony Hawk
Him: “haha you do look like him!”
Elevator stops again, he exits on his floor. I am left alone, heading upwards & feeling perplexed

— Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) April 7, 2022

This new wrinkle in the existential nightmare that is living as Tony Hawk proved to be the final straw for some Twitter users, who took to brainstorming solutions to ensure this never happened again. User @FredTaming joked that they call everyone Tony Hawk "just in case." User @samir suggested everyone except Hawk wear a shirt that says "I'm not Tony Hawk."

i call everyone i see in public tony hawk just in case

— taming fred savage (@FredTaming) April 7, 2022

People are always thinking Tony Hawk is just a person that looks like Tony Hawk so I came up with a solution to end the confusion for good pic.twitter.com/KaePT05BG8

— #1 samir (@samir) April 8, 2022

One solution proposed by @LostAmericanDRm after a December 2021 incident suggests the invention of a Tony Hawk tracking app that would allow users to alert others if Tony Hawk is in their area, lest they run into a vaguely Hawk-like man and need to know for sure if it's him.

I have decided it is time to create a Tony Hawk tracking app. People could indicate on a map their Tony Hawk sightings that way people with fear of not recognizing him could check the app and see if he has recently been in your area if you think you see someone that resembles him

— LostAmericanDream (@LostAmericanDRM) December 10, 2021

Perhaps the most ethical solution is if we, as a society, burn the image of Tony Hawk's face into our minds so that we can be prepared for the day we finally run into Tony Hawk. Then we can simply talk to him about skateboarding and maybe get an autograph instead of ending up another fool in a lengthy line of legendary tweets.