One Situation Two Separate Stories
Sometimes two people can be in the same situation and come out with two different stories and two completely different experiences. Most of the time it's subtle and the stories mostly match up. Other times they're so different the two of you might as well have been on different planets. What happened, or from my perspective what didn't happen, is an incident I was present for (or was I?) but only found out about second hand. As the story goes, I was riding on the T (Boston subway) and an old friend of mine, who I hadn't seen in about 15 years happened to be in the same car. He saw me but, I didn't see him. However, he thought I saw him. He thought that I looked right at him and then looked away. He thought I purposely ignored him. Now, since I didn't see him, I certainly did not ignore him. In fact, I had no idea it even happened until nearly a year later when I was at a party with some mutual friends. He had told them all the story of how I had coldly, blat...