There’s a lady in my Master Gardener (MG) class who reminds me far too much of Evil Coworker (EC) from my last job. EC pretty much made my last job a living Hell, so you can probably imagine that seeing her twin (ECT) show up at MG training was unsettling. ECT has the same build, facial features, haircut, glasses, little string that holds the glasses on, and way of moving as EC. That would be bad enough, but ECT also has the exact same air of superiority that made me want to strangle EC.
I’m trying to tell myself, whenever the urge to strangle ECT arises, that I don’t know this new lady. She’s quite possibly very nice. It’s not her fault she so closely resembles EC that I am tempted to approach her and ask her if she has any relatives in Michigan. This internal conversation isn’t working too well so far. No, I haven’t tried to wrap my hands around her throat, but I cringe each and every time I see her or hear her speak. Maybe I can convince her to dye her hair hot pink or to slouch a little bit in her chair instead of perching on the edge of it as though each and every vertebrae in her body was fused together?
Is it the EC I know and would like to strangle, or another one?
I understand the desire, I do, even if it is not the same person. Sometime the mere suggestion of anything that might remind you of someone….
Nah, that person left before I got there. This is a different person who was hired a year or two after I was hired.
Well, if she dies her hair hot pink, she can act like Frenchie from Grease and sing along to “Beauty School Dropout”
MASTER GARDENER??? Are you guys like the Masters of the Universe with flora and fauna powers you use for good (or evil) ??
We don’t really deal with the fauna. Unless…are bugs considered fauna? ‘Cause we get to deal with bugs. The Master Gardener program is run by the state/county extension offices all over the US. I’m a MG trainee, and after I complete the oodles of classes and take a test I’ll be a MG intern. Then, after I complete about 50 hours of volunteering in educational-gardening-type activities, I get to be a real Master Gardener! Then, I get a name tag! In exchange for the training (and the name tag), MGs are expected to pay the county/state back by helping do the work of the extension office that they can’t do ’cause they got no money.