It is quite interesting and a little unsettling when students point out that one of their peers is “talking a bit like Higgins.” It unnerves me a bit and CERTAINLY un-nerved the student as he couldn’t figure out if he was to take this as an insult or not. This was brought up in Company today. It caused both the student in question and I to lock eyes together and figure out what just went down.
I suppose at one time I could have been a high school student myself – and I suppose I did have a personality at the time – and I suppose my peers had an opinion of me – flattering or not. So who knows? I may have discovered my younger self. Now what? Perhaps we both need to sit down and take a personality test to see if we score similarly. Perhaps I need to bring in my high school yearbook and see if there is any familiarity in pictures (unlikely) or in comments scribbled in the yearbook by my peers (possible!). But regardless – this is odd.
I wonder if everyone over the age of fifty has a mini me walking around somewhere. What do you do once of the two of you meet? If you figure this out, consider commenting on this blog post and share your experience.