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07 November 2010

I walked into a diner today and someone who looked exactly, completely, down to the build and bad bleach dye job, like me. He was leaving. As he left he picked up a very sleek, easily indefinable coat. The very same coat I had talked myself into not-buying just an hour before.

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I don't know what this means. Lunch was a very strange experience.

post by: The Whelk at: 23:24 | 10 comments

It's a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

posted by ikkyu2 07 November | 23:46

That was a time-traveling future you. After realizing that true love had eluded him and his professional career had failed all because he had never bought that wonderful sleek coat all those years ago, he eventually constructed a time machine and headed back to correct the error.

posted by TheophileEscargot 08 November | 01:43

It's a good thing you didn't make eye contact with him.

posted by Obscure Reference 08 November | 08:06

That was you. It was the you who had bought the coat. Sometimes alternate universes overlap like that. You have to give the waveforms time to collapse.

posted by Eideteker 08 November | 09:17

Did you make eye contact with him? Did he see the resemblance, too?

posted by amro 08 November | 09:56

We did not make eye-contact was I was afraid one of us would explode.

posted by The Whelk 08 November | 11:59

I'm sure he doesn't have your gorgeous eyes, even if he did score the coat.

posted by bearwife 08 November | 12:30

I think the diner installed a new mirror. It wasn't there last week, so it might have seemed unusual to you. And the jacket was just non-buyers remorse haunting you.

posted by filthy light thief 08 November | 14:08

You went back and bought the coat, right? Right??

posted by jeoc 08 November | 19:33

...I ...did go and buy and the coat.

I am weak. I am only human.

posted by The Whelk 08 November | 22:11

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