Office Pranks

One of my co-workers, Nick, has the same last name as me, which isn’t the most common last name.  So we joke around that we’re brother and sister or twins sometimes.  I think last week, he started telling our new manager that we were siblings, and told me to play along.

Today, our manager started asking me if we really were related.  So I said yeah and added stuff like how Nick went off to the east to study while I stayed in Vancouver (to sort of explain our personality differences).  I was sorta saying that we were twins but just born 2 weeks apart (our birthdays actually are about that time apart), but I think he didn’t pick up on that part.  Phew, it’d be a bit more complicated.  While we were chatting, another co-worker sitting nearby expressed his surprisement that we were related.  But soon changed his mind and wasn’t convinced that we were related.  Which confused our manager even more, ’cause his reasoning was, “You guys have been working here for so long, how can these guys not know you’re related?”

So I wandered off for meetings and to do some work, but Nick and our manager was passing by my cube and brought it up again.  I confirmed again that we were related, but our manager was still reluctant to believe.  Then asked another guy passing by if it was true, which he confirmed.  But he’s still in doubt.  I think my next step to take is to photoshop up a baby photo of us, if Nick’s got any lying around, hahaha.  If I can pull that off, I think this could top the “I got married and had a kid” prank on an ex-coworker. 

Posted by tastethehappy November 2007

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