My
sister and I used to like to give joke birthday cards. You
know, like a “Get Well Soon!” card, or
“Happy 7th Birthday, Birthday
Boy!” to a 18-year-old girl. Or get one of those business Christmas
cards, or corporate
holiday cards you
know, the ones that say “Merry Christmas, From All of
Us.” Greeting
card
companies spend all of this time and effort on trying to be witty, and
we
outdid them just by using the wrong holiday cards
for the occasion entirely. We figured
we had to be doing them a favor, right? I mean, how many people
actually send,
say, Thanksgiving cards? We were just giving the less-trafficked cards
a
fighting chance. And don't get me started on business
holiday cards.
We
have shared our bizarre sense of humor for a while. Maybe the
greeting card thing isn’t quite so novel, but
that’s probably the tamest
example, anyway. Basically, we share a brain – in an odd way,
because we’re
very different, too. But the same turn of phrase will trigger the same
memory
in each of us (this is why we often burst into song randomly at the
same
moment, and the same song, as if on cue). And songs themselves trigger
the same
memories in us. There’s one song in particular that reminds
both of us of
summers at the pool, because it used to play every day, and we used to
go there
every day to swim.
One time we were watching a TV show and there were these babies on it. Three of them, I guess. And we starting randomly improvising a song. It ended up having three verses and it was about three babies, and we put the whole thing together impromptu, without a word of discussion, basically just singing it start to finish, no hesitation. What if you could have, say, a theatre company that was that in tune with one another? I mean, they’d all have to grow up together, because that’s the reason for it, we grew up together – two years apart, but we spent most of our time together and...well it’s no wonder that we swap and share thoughts, when it comes to anything from improvising songs to sending business birthday cards instead of anniversary ones.
