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You are snowed into a small static caravan for a month with man who is a complete stranger but..

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Nimbostratus100 · 24/03/2023 06:14

is actually you, exactly you, in another body.

Your personality exactly. Your intelligence, your experience, your health, your politics, your hobbies, your habits. You exactly

How does the month go, and at the end of that time, do you hate him or love him?

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BadNomad · 24/03/2023 07:37

I'd sleep with a knife under my pillow.

Tropicaliyes · 24/03/2023 07:37

This is like something I can imagine for a episode of Rick & Morty or even Black Mirror (the original one) if there was more between the lines

ApolloandDaphne · 24/03/2023 07:41

I'd hate him. He would talk too much and I wouldn't get a word in edgeways.

nancy75 · 24/03/2023 07:41

Have we got books? If yes we would happily ignore each other for a month

PlateBilledDuckyPerson · 24/03/2023 07:41

If he had 'my experience' in a literal sense, I think we'd have a great time - the hours would fly by as we discussed in depth what something someone said to us in 1983 really meant.

Trickedbyadoughnut · 24/03/2023 07:42

One of me is quite sufficient, thank you.

AndAllOurYesterdays · 24/03/2023 07:44

I'd love it. Someone who would finally leave me alone to read in peace

DartholomewSpaceInvader · 24/03/2023 07:44

It would be pretty quiet, I don't like to talk much for the sake of it. We would both do a lot of reading and gazing into space with thoughtful faces. Every so often we would engage in a bout of rampant nostalgia.

I hope we wouldn't have to make many decisions because between the two of us it could take the whole month...

LizzieSiddal · 24/03/2023 07:46

I’d hate it, if I was in a caravan with myself for a month we’d probably die of a heart attack induced by anxiety. I worry about everything!

Nooyoiknooyoik · 24/03/2023 07:49

Wait - do we know it’s us in the other person?

Pinacalola · 24/03/2023 07:49

If he is as tired as me we would spend the month sleeping, reading (if books are allowed) and healing from all the stress, trauma and burn out. A month would hardly be long enough just to rest the way I'm feeling right now 😂

Who I used to be before fatigue became my go to emotion, we would have killed each other probably. But I am way too tired to be annoying or annoyed. When my eyes are tired he could read and sing to me, and when my eyes were tired I could read and sing to him. It would be so chilled 😎

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Nimbostratus100 · 24/03/2023 07:51

Nooyoiknooyoik · 24/03/2023 07:49

Wait - do we know it’s us in the other person?

no, not at first, you just know it is a stranger

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Kanaloa · 24/03/2023 07:51

Well I wouldn’t have to worry about him making a move on me because he’d be into men like I am, wouldn’t he? Or would he be married to someone of the opposite sex to himself because I am? Either way we’d just get on each other’s nerves and feel very claustrophobic.

CarrieMoonbeams · 24/03/2023 08:00

Hmm, well on one level it'd be great I think. We'd both be chatty, tidy, not too set in our views so able to discuss things, and we'd be happy to sit and read, with copious mugs of tea interspersed with regular naps.

However .... if we both went for the one remaining bag of pickled onion flavoured Monster Munch at the same time, well then one of us would have to die.

SquidwardBound · 24/03/2023 08:01

We’d be doomed.

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Nimbostratus100 · 24/03/2023 08:02

would it be different if the stranger was woman?

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FrizzledFrazzle · 24/03/2023 08:03

Oh I would be absolutely raging about how inconsiderate he is leaving his stuff scattered around where he thinks it lives but actually in my way.

We would be passive aggressively holed up in our rooms making forays to the kitchen for snacks at weird times and wondering if we were being judged.

Penguinsaregreat · 24/03/2023 08:03

It would be great to agree on watch to watch on TV?
Conversation wise it would be fine, both sharing the same opinions. Yes overall I think it would work out.

maddy68 · 24/03/2023 08:03

It was be shit hole, the food would be awful and we would basically be drunk the entire time without a time taking away the recycling

Penguinsaregreat · 24/03/2023 08:03

Oh actually I hate cooking so the meals would be dire.

Adrelaxzz · 24/03/2023 08:05

Oh interesting. I like taking the opposite view point if someone in a debate to defend both sides (unless they are racists/homophobes etc) so could happily debate with myself.
The place would be a bit of a mess, we would eat and drink well (and too much), would play games for hours and have a drunken snog.

SquidwardBound · 24/03/2023 08:08

Nimbostratus100 · 24/03/2023 08:02

would it be different if the stranger was woman?

Yes. I suspect a version of me that’s had 40-odd years of male socialisation would make for an even worse prospect than two mes in an enclosed space for a month.

Whicmhschool · 24/03/2023 08:10

I would hate it! We’d be anxiety squared and send ourselves crazy!

Thoughtful2355 · 24/03/2023 08:11

we would have a very lazy month. and be very messy....

midgemadgemodge · 24/03/2023 08:11

A man who has given birth ? Who was bullied for being insufficiently feminine ?

I don't see how this works

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