”It is? Shit, man, I’m sorry!”
A third man spoke up. “I called him Eric when I first met him, too.”
Earl said, ”It’s okay. Everybody does. That was my name during the Civil War.”
Nobody guffawed, this being that kind of place, and Earl went on. “I fought in the Civil War, but I don’t know if I died in it. I asked a psychic, who told me that I was a warrior in 23 of my past 25 lives. When I met my girlfriend the first time, we saw each other in Civil War-period clothing.”
”So it’s okay if you call me Eric.”
3 comments:
it pisses me off when someone calls me by a past-life name. I'm like, "that was then, man! this is the new me. get used to it."
something about 23 of my last 25 lives being in sanitation or finance, maybe, makes it a sore spot.
Oh, this one's 100 percent true.
Love the off-handedness of this. Like shriners, but past-life shriners.
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