Nice Cup

The Misfits

I was standing in the break room at work, washing out my new coffee cup like I now do every single morning before pouring coffee into it because I don't know where its been or what's been done to it, when a new employee came in. She was getting some coffee, too.

I didn't recognize her. I've never seen her before. And I had my head down focusing on what I was doing. We didn't speak.

As she was leaving she turned to me and said, "nice cup!" And she smiled.

Nice cup!

I looked at her. It took me a minute to remember that I had replaced my old generic cup with this new Misfits skull cup. "Thanks, its supposed to make it harder for anyone to steal it from me."

"Unless they like it." she said. "Then they'll take it home."

I'll take that cup from you and you'll never see it again!

It hadn't occurred to me that anyone might WANT my cup now that its unique. I mean, it isn't really unique. I bought it at the Guitar Center. Anyone can get one. But it's unique for this office. I haven't seen another like it. The point was simply to make it harder for the person screwing with me by taking my cup to get away with it. But now I realize I might have to deal with someone taking it and keeping it for good because they like this new cup.

Hmmm.

And then, as I was pouring coffee into my newly cleaned cup, a fellow employee asked me how things were going. We had worked together briefly on a project when I was loaned out to his team for about 6 weeks or so.

"Oh, it's going alright. How are things going with the project?" I asked, not really knowing what to say.

We talked for a few minutes about the project I had worked on with him and then turned to go out opposite doors.

That's when I noticed that he was wearing the exact same shirt as me.

And the exact same pants, too.

We were twins.

Except that I have this awesome coffee cup and he doesn't.