Some people may think of me as a dodgy guy but I am not as dodgy as GT&T seems to be making me out to be, albeit unintentionally.

For the record, I am not the `Dodgy Cel’ man portrayed in that GT&T television advertisement taking a poke at Digicel.

Up to yesterday, a colleague at work was in disbelief when he asked if I was the man in the GT&T ad and I laughed and said it was not me.

Others at work, in the media and elsewhere break out in humming the jingle that goes with the `Dodgy Cel’ man ad when they see me and I find it all a source of amusement.

I was in front of Fogarty’s on Water Street, Georgetown one afternoon when the ad was first being aired and a man walking by with his family stopped and asked if I was working with GT&T.

When I asked why he had asked me that and I explained that I am not the man in the GT&T ad, he left with his family shaking his head in mild disbelief.

I was at Babu John in Port Mourant, Berbice on March 1 for the annual memorial observances for the late President Cheddi Jagan when a guy came up, shook my hand and said he liked me in the GT&T ad.

And now as I move around in Georgetown and all over the place and people hail and wave at me, I am not sure if they are calling out to me as the GT&T man, as a journalist with a familiar face, an old friend, a nodding acquaintance or whoever.

This GT&T ad thing has got me a little confused and I don’t want to be accused of anything untoward simply because of a case of mistaken identity.

Those close to me find it amusing that people take me for the GT&T man, but can you imagine what can happen to me if there’s a guy out there looking like me and people mistaking me for him?

Some possibilities may be good to contemplate but others may cause me grievous bodily harm or worse.

Now, you know I would not have had a problem if it were Shah Rukh Khan in that GT&T ad and people were coming up to me and asking if I were him.

I would have been like President Barack Obama signing autographs at his inauguration and I probably would have had to pay GT&T for the favour.

Some people tell me they really believe it is me when the GT&T guy falls asleep in his chair coming on to the end of the ad. They claim the resemblance is uncanny.

Now, what will my boss say of me if that’s me in that GT&T television ad falling asleep in a chair while waiting to make free phone calls?

He most likely will want to cut my pay or worse and I don’t deserve that because I am not that kind of a dodgy man. And if I get fired, GT&T may not want to use the real me in an ad, because that will cost them big bucks.

GT&T can do better by going after some real dodgy guys I see every day.

Like the `big one’ I saw remonstrating with a traffic cop on Regent Street in Georgetown last week because he was getting a ticket for parking his flashy vehicle on a big sign clearly stating that only buses can stop there.

Some people have taken to calling traffic cops doing their business cockroaches because they hide and creep out on them when they least expect it.

But they and those others dodging the traffic rules and breaking other laws are the dodgers that GT&T can help the police nab.

Some closed circuit TV cameras stationed at strategic points and hooked up to the police network of computers can bolster the monitoring of traffic and help them better track down offenders.

And if video footage of some of the dodgers caught in action is played over and over on TV, like that GT&T ad some people think is me, I will be able to escape the limelight.

Instead of stopping me to ask if it’s me in the GT&T ad, a lot of them will have a lot of questions to answer.

How about it GT&T? Deal?

Go down that way and I may reconsider sending in the big bill for that case of mistaken identity involving me.