View From the Bushes

For those who wanted to know what my true time was, it ended up being an hour and a half from leaving work to arriving home with all my shopping done. It would have been an hour, but I ran into some friends at Media Play and we spent a half an hour talking about this funny thing which happened on Monday. Since I brought it up, I might as well retell it...

Well, on Monday we had the family Christmas party and just as my brother-in-law was getting ready to leave, his boss walked in and wanted to talk to him about a big project he'd been working on. After a few minutes it became apparent that he was going to need my sister to pick him up from work if he was going to have any chance of making the party on time. Since his boss was there he couldn't use the phone, but he could IM someone. So he decided to IM his neighbor whose last name begins with "Will" but instead he ended up IM'ing another Will, someone whom he hadn't talked to in probably a year, and who was more of a friend of a friend. Will and another friend of mine, Josh, was who I ran into at Media Play.

So in any case, my brother-in-law e-mails Will thinking it's his neighbor and asks him if he can have his wife call my sister and tell her to sign on to IM. Will was understandably puzzled that my brother-in-law would ask for his wife to do something seeing as how he had probably never met Will's wife, but since Will works from home he explained that well... his wife couldn't do it, but he could. Will then proceeded to ask for my sister's name, to which my brother-in-law (still thinking he was talking to the neighbor) said in an accusing manner, "I know your wife's name, how come you don't know mine!!" Will is bad with names so he let that comment slide and proceeded to call my sister.

"This is kind of akward," he began, "I don't think you know me, but John just asked me to call you and ask you to sign on to IM." So my sister did, at which point my brother-in-law told her to come pick him up. When she arrived she asked him, "Why did you have Will call me?" He replied, "dont you mean Will****?" "No..." And it was only at this point that he realized his mistake... He promptly called Josh (the other friend I ran into at Media Play) who's the person he knew Will through and explained his mistake in a tone that convinced Josh that he had killed someone and needed help hiding the body. Of course, then later that night he made his second big mistake of the day and told me the story...

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, gender neutral, low stress, non addictive, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious / secular persuasions and or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
Ross