A TWIN THING

Last night I went to a local brewery, The Standing Stone, with some friends after watching the over-hyped Pats vs. Giants game. There was a band playing, which was unusual at this particular venue, but ever since the Jefferson State Pub closed due to gross mismanagement the other bars in town have taken up the slack. Originally slated to wait around for a table in the back with the friends I came with, I decided to walk to the back area to see the band play. After standing around for a few minutes watching everyone else enjoying their beers, I went back to the bar to see if they had this year's Barley Wine available. They did, and I ordered one while sitting at the bar on the last remaining bar stool.

Next to me were two very pretty girls, and I asked them what types of beer they were drinking. We exchanged samples of each others' beers, and I then asked them if they'd been friends for a long time, even though I could tell they were twins. I just wanted to see what they'd say, since I'm a twin myself. It turns out one of them—Carrie—lives in West Virginia and had just flown out to surprise her sister. And her sister, Jackie, said she happened to look up in the sky the evening of Carrie's arrival and saw the plane she was on and said to herself, "I bet my sister's on that plane", even though she'd had no advance warning. I understood perfectly.

We then proceeded back to the dance floor and these girls, who are 29, could really dance. I was overdressed in long underwear, and had to decide whether to really cut loose and get all super sweaty, or take it easy and not be a turnoff. I took the take it easy route, and we danced together for some time. During a set break, a guy I know from the first week I moved here (he hired me to do a freelance job on his poster) said hello, and I saw what clearly had to be his twin brother (which I didn't know he had) sitting next to him. I then introduced him to the twins I was already with, and we proceeded to bore everyone else with our twin stories for awhile.

So there we were, three sets of twins. It felt like we'd somehow landed in a twin convention or something. I would have liked to have made further plans with the twin girls, but I cheesed out and took off with the guys I came with when I saw they were leaving. Maybe I'll run into them again...