Obama asked for ID at gym

By GottaLaff

I really don't even need to snark about this, it's already hilarious:

Washington Sports Club employee Takehia Wheeler was manning the front desk to scan members’ identification cards Friday morning when the presidential candidate walked in with his entourage. The gym opened a month ago in the Columbia Heights district.

“He came in and walked past me,” Wheeler told In The Know. “I was like, ‘Sir, you need to come back.’” Wheeler said Obama looked familiar, but she didn’t recognize him. So she asked for his ID card.

“I said, ‘What’s your last name?’ He said ‘Obama,’ ” Wheeler explained. “I said, ‘So what’s your first name?”

Um-m-m... no, wait. Don't tell me. Al? Lamont? Demitri?

Then she laughed because it was at that point that Wheeler realized who she was talking to. How did she make amends? By saying, “Sorry, Mr. Future President!”

He had an entourage, Ms. Observant! But let's be charitable. At least she assumed he was going to win. And okay, chalk it up to one measly little person in one unique situation. I mean, really, how often would that happen, right? Never again. Impossible.

She wasn’t alone in not recognizing Obama. Trainer Drew McNeil wasn’t sure either.

::rubs eyes:: Wha-a-a??

“I was training right next to him, and I was like, ‘That looks like Obama,’ ” he said.

And I was like, pshyeah, it was. And he was all, my bad. And I was like, whoah, what a burn, loser.