Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Mistaken Identity

“I saw you yesterday!”
Jordan greeted me excitedly when I entered his third-grade classroom.
You did? Where was I? I asked him.
“You were in your car.”
Was I even in my car yesterday, I wondered. I backtracked in my head over the previous day. I remembered that I mowed the lawn and then went for a run. No, the car on Monday was parked right where I left it on Friday.
“You have a pretty big car, right? Dark red?”
My car is small, I told him, and gold-colored. You’ve seen it in the school parking lot.
“You were driving near the dead-end street off Lakeview,” he said.
Wait, was the guy behind the wheel a very handsome man, I asked him.
“Yes!”
Well, then, it wasn’t me, I said.


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