EXERCISE: The day that wasn't there?

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Original Posting Feb. 29, 2016

Yes, indeed, it is February 29! The day that only turns up once every four years. Which made me ponder the man who wasn't there (last night upon the stair... oh how I wish he'd go away...) and other effervescent events (fizzy, right?). Taking an extra step when you've run out of stairway? What about the 13th floor, beloved hiding place for various odds and ends in the movie industry?

We kind of enjoy the optical illusions and other whoops involved in such days, hauntings, stumbling, and hidden trickery.

So, your task, should you choose to accept it, is to simply put a couple of characters into a scene, and have one of them make a mistaken identification of the other one... or was it mistaken? I mean, perhaps that really is old Larry, except he doesn't want anyone to recognize him? That's why the mustache, sunglasses, and beret? Or...

Mix it up. Who was that person that walked by you, that looked just like...

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