Although Gary Quintano transferred to the Sonora Wal-Mart less than three weeks ago, local residents claim to find something very familiar about the 24-year-old shopping cart specialist born with Down’s Syndrome.
“There’s just something about him that's so familiar,” says Starbucks barista David Germaine. “The first time I saw him, I felt like I knew him from somewhere.”
Germaine is hardly alone.
“I guess he just has one of those faces,” confirms Seamus de Leon. In fact, when he first saw Quintano last Thursday while the latter was towing a row of carts through the Wal-Mart parking lot, de Leon ran up from behind to give him a friendly bear hug only to find himself in an altercation.
“Hey, what the fuck? It’s me, Seamus. You don’t remember me?” said de Leon, describing the encounter with Quintano that left the 19-year-old stay-at-home dad scratched, bitten, and more than a little confused. “Fucker is strong. Like retard strong.”
Quintano, who despite a surplus of 21st chromosomes lives a comfortable, fulfilling life, would not comment on the encounter.
When told of Quintano’s condition, de Leon remained skeptical, “Then he must have a twin brother, or something, that busses tables at the Straw Hat Pizza in Twain Harte. I swear it’s, like, his fucking doppelganger.”
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