Not
too long ago my husband took our daughter and her two fur babies to the vet.
While there he saw a woman who looked familiar but clearly didn’t know him.
He
asked the woman if he knew her but she said she didn’t think so but then added,
“I do have a twin sister though.”
As
I wasn’t there, I’m not sure which one brought up the name of our doctor but
when he was telling me the story, Jerry made it clear the woman looked a lot
like the woman all of us, except my husband, see for medical care, and she did
say that our doctor was her twin sister. (He goes to the VA.)
Jerry
told me about because he’d been unaware our doctor had a twin.
I
knew that, but it was surprising, after all these years, that we’d run into her
sister. This is a big city.
Anyway,
a few days later I had to take a couple of my kids into the doctor so I asked
her, “Have you talked to your sister since Monday night?”
“No.
Why?”
I
told her about Jerry having to go to the vet and as soon as I named the clinic
he went to she started laughing. Though when I explained that Jerry talked to
her sister she seemed a bit surprised. She said, “Yeah, if you see me out and
about and say hi, but I don’t respond, it’s actually my sister.”
While
she didn’t actually say her sister was ‘the shy one’, that was what she
implied.
If
you’ve ever seen Lily Tomlin and Bette Miller in “Big Business” you’ll see that
for both sets of twins, one is considered shy while the other is very much
outspoken. This is considered fairly normal among twins.
Bonnie
and I have already posted about all the times I didn’t talk to her friends.
What I didn’t say is I never had that problem, because she always figured a
stranger talking to her must have known me.
What
I realized that day in the doctor’s office is that my doctor is the outgoing
one like Bonnie is and her twin is the shy one like me.
In
the past my doctor and I have also talked about being mirror twin, part of the
reason I knew she was a twin. Anyway, because of that I know my doctor is right
handed, like Bonnie.
So
I actually have more in common with her sister than I do her.
But,
you know what? It doesn’t really matter.
What
matters is we are both twins and we understand each other on a level that
people who aren’t twins can’t.