The Comeuppance

Part of trying to possess the personality of a heel wrestler in daily life involves not only mimicking the actions of the heel wrestler, but accepting similar results as well.  This comeuppance in the ring usually leads to the heel being thoroughly beaten from one corner to the other and flying all over the place in a desperate attempt to escape.  An embarrassing situation to say the least.  Especially in front of a lot of people.  But daily life for most of us usually involves quite a bit less violence.  So what kind of comeuppance do us regular joe heels end up getting?

In my case it has been being caught in my own lies so badly that a regular person simply could not tolerate the embarrassment resulting from the discovery.  One of my favorite times this happened is when I told my coworker how upset I was that I was being called the name "Jack" over and over despite that not being anything even close to my actual name.  It started by her saying "Listen, Jack!" like you sometimes hear people say when they aren't going to put up with someone's antics.  And it just grew from there.

Anyhow, this eventually led to me shedding obviously fake tears and pretending "Jack" was the most vulgar name anyone could ever call me, and of course nobody bought my act for a minute, especially not my coworker who called me that.

So one day I told my coworker that my wife expressed "deep concern" about me being called "Jack" every day, and that my coworker was GUARANTEED to receive a "strongly worded" text directly from my wife starting this concern, and I was specific to add that if a text is NOT received by 10 am, then there's no excuse I can possibly have for the missing text and she can call the claim of my wife's concern a complete fabrication on my part.  Of course my wife doesn't give a flip about this nonsense, and my coworker knows it.  In fact, when I tell my wife about all the stupid stuff I do at work, even SHE sides with my coworker.

So, does my coworker receive a text expressing "deep concern" from my wife by 10 am?  Or even a text from her of any kind?  Of course not.  

So we see that this is an INCREDIBLY embarrassing situation where I backed myself into a corner that there's no way out of.  My coworker knows she can say my story was a complete fabrication now, BY MY OWN WORDS.  But what would a heel do in this embarrassing no-win and no-escape situation?  Well simple.  He'd say there MUST be some kind of technical issue with the phone and that's why the text didn't come through.  So that's what I did.  Even though I was very clear when I said I would have NO EXCUSE for a text not coming through.  

I was pretty proud of my art of being a heel that day.

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