Ever since I was a little kid, I didn't want to be me. I wanted to be like
Billy Widdledon, and Billy Widdledon didn't even like me. I walked like he
walked; I talked like he talked; and I signed up for the high school he signed
up for.
Which was why Billy Widdledon changed. He began to hang around Herby
Vandeman; he walked like Herby Vandeman; he talked like Herby Vandeman. He mixed
me up! I began to walk and talk like Billy Widdledon, who was walking and
talking like Herby Vandeman.
And then it dawned on me that Herby Vandeman walked and talked like Joey
Haverlin. And Joey Haverlin walked and talked like Corky Sabinson.
So here I am walking and talking like Billy Widdledon's imitation of Herby
Vandeman's version of Joey Haverlin, trying to walk and talk like Corky Sabinson.
And who do you think Corky Sabinson is always walking and talking like? Of all
people, Dopey Wellington - that little pest who walks and talks like me!
By Author Unknown, submitted by Scott Shuman from A 2nd
Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul