Doppelgangers

You know that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine gets sick of Kramer, George, and Jerry’s shit and runs into a guy who is like a blander version of Jerry, and then meets his friends, who are blander, nicer, average joe versions of Kramer and George?

Well, this is playing out in my life at the moment.  There were graphics guys in the tv production department of where I work, and they both left for separate reasons, and now there are two guys that were brought in today to be their replacements on a trial period.   They are exact doppelgangers of these two guys who worked where I work about three or four years ago.   With slight differences.  One big, Latino guy, who before had a goatee, bad table manners, and wore black jeans and white tennis shoes and was into all sorts of inappropriate sex talk about “swinging”, and called everything semi-cool “sexy” is now a born-again Christian with just a chin-goatee who dresses really nice in a button up shirt and slacks and a tie and is really professional.

The other guy, who was waaaaay too into (and I’m not kidding) pinball, karate, ghost hunting, Star Trek, and cheating on his wife on the stairs of our office building while living at the office because his wife kicked him out of the house is now just some boring dude (who again, looks eerily similar) who supposedly complains about everything.

I don’t know these new guys, but it was strange walking by their office and thinking I’d seen a ghost.

~ by trashville on October 22, 2007.