“Hey
man, congratulations!” His friend
greeted him at the bus stop.
“Thanks,”
he responded automatically. “For what?”
“The
promotion! VP of Sales? Why didn’t you tell me – I had to read it on
the company newsletter!”
“Cause
it – didn’t happen?” He was very
confused.
“Well
they had your photo and everything, with ‘New VP of Sales’ on the caption.”
“Did
they have my name on the caption?”
“Sure…
um… you know, I didn’t look that closely at the words and all.”
“Yeah,
they probably used an old photo from something else and made a mistake.” He was glad to have that mystery solved just
as their bus arrived.
“Yeah…
no, wait! There was a banner with the
promotion in the picture! And it
was definitely you! You have to pick up
a copy of the newsletter today – then you’ll believe me,” his friend said as
they climbed the narrow stairs into their cramped mode of public
transportation.
He
grabbed a newsletter at the office and, sure enough, he saw himself being
promoted to VP of Sales, albeit with someone else’s name in the caption.
Hm,
he thought. I have a twin out there. Bound to happen, I suppose.
* * * * * * * * * * *
“Hey
man, great job organizing that fundraiser last night! The buffet dinner totally rocked!”
“Oh,
thanks, but that wasn’t me, it was the new VP of Sales.”
“Huh. He looked just like you.”
* * * * * * * * * * *
“By
the way, I wanted to let you know that I admire you so much for the way you
coordinated traffic in the parking lot so well after that mess with all that construction: you really kept your cool there and probably saved a lot of
lives.”
“Oh,
that wasn’t me – that was the VP of Sales.
I call him my twin, heh, heh, heh.”
“That’s
odd, he looked just like you.”
“Yeah.”
* * * * * * * * * * *
“Hey
big guy, congratulations on the engagement!
Don’t take this the wrong way, but you lucked out big time with this
one, eh, eh? How’d you afford that rock
you gave, anyway?”
“I
didn’t. It was my fake twin you saw, the VP
of Sales.”
“Oh. Right.
Lucky guy, eh?”
“Yeah.”
* * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * *
“I
can’t believe you didn’t tell us that you won the lottery and are retiring with
your wife to Tahiti!”
“I
can’t believe my fake twin has such a cooler life than I do!”
interesting; but did he ever get in touch with his "twin" or does he have a split personality.
ReplyDeleteNo on both - it was just someone who looked exactly like him and had a much more exciting life :-).
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