My B-side

Double Take and a Half

I was manning the cash register at Cosmo’s last night. It was deader than Passover in ancient Egypt….and as equally boring. What to do… I turned around and took a sip from my Sweetheart cup. I heard someone walk up to the counter (yes a customer!!) so I quickly turned around to check them out...check their things out…like their purchases, anyway! All the blood that was in my face slid deep into my throat and clotted in this giant mass of fear. It was the twin…dun dun duuuum.

“Hi!”

“H…Hell..O. (An eternity worth of awkward silence lapses) “Can I help you?”

“Yeah, just these.”

With (obvious) thorough scrutiny, I concluded that they didn’t look much alike after all. The eyes were all wrong and he was about 4 inches too short…oh well.

My manager had been watching this unnerving encounter from nearby. After “he” left she prodded me, “What was THAT all about? You went pale-white!”

“Oh…he just reminded me of someone I used to know.”

posted by Melissa at 19:51