What It's Like To Be A Twin

• Every time I hear my voice on the answering machine, I think it's Andrew.
• One time I went into Andrew's work. It was like like having amnesia. I had no idea who anyone was, but they all said hello to me.
• Meeting Andrew's co-workers is always fun. When they finally realize I'm not Andrew, they stare at me like I'm the weirdest thing they've ever seen. Then they invariably say, "Weird!!!"
• When I talk, they say, "He sounds like him, too!"
• Every now and then, I'll be walking down the street and someone will say hi to me. That means they think I'm Andrew.
• When someone stares at me in line at the movie theater, I know they think I'm Andrew.
• Mom was grateful for caller id, so she could finally tell us apart on the phone.
• Being a twin doesn't mean I don't also think that twins are weird. One time in high school, I saw identical twins on the bus and wondered, "I wonder what that is like."
• We always shared birthday parties together. I never minded. I still refer to my birthdays in the third person.
• No matter what each of us is doing, if we both do it together, it's funny.
• Andrew and I were both counselors at a day camp. The kids would always ask, "are you you or your brother?" To this day, that's the still the stupidest question I've ever heard.
• The only person I've ever been happy to think I was Andrew is Lilah, but she's old enough to know better now.
• The nieces can't tell us apart, so they will generally call us both either Uncle Andrew or Uncle Brian, taking turns with both names. I take it as a major victory when they call Andrew "Uncle Brian."
• When someone tells me they saw my twin, they're probably right.
• I'm not sure I know what I look like, but I know I look like Andrew.
• I have a hard time telling us apart in baby pictures.
• There was one time when I was confused. We were kids and I thought Andrew and I were playing chicken by walking into each other. We both laughed, then I walked into the mirror.