diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 9e465f0..2dfdb96 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@
  
 BUG FIXES
 
+PIG-5293: Suspicious code as missing `this' for a member (lifove via daijy)
+
 PIG-5294: Spark unit tests are always run in spark1 mode (szita)
 
 PIG-5277: Spark mode is writing nulls among tuples to the output (workaround) (szita)
diff --git a/src/org/apache/pig/pen/util/ExampleTuple.java b/src/org/apache/pig/pen/util/ExampleTuple.java
index 1cdcffe..89fa9c8 100644
--- a/src/org/apache/pig/pen/util/ExampleTuple.java
+++ b/src/org/apache/pig/pen/util/ExampleTuple.java
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 
     @Override
     public void reference(Tuple t) {
-        t.reference(t);
+        this.t.reference(t);
     }
 
     @Override