Date with a Doppelganger?

I think I may have a date with a doppelganger* tonight.

I met a guy on Saturday night. My roommate and I went to see a show with a few friends from work. As we were struggling to reach the bar for a few refreshments, an older gentleman and his two handsome sons saw us struggling and ordered our drinks for us. We had a pleasant evening with the mid-western family and Monday morning I was contacted by the cute son for a subsequent date.

Now, let me delve deeper into the adjective cute as used above. This guy was definitely cute....tall, styley, dimples.... the strange thing was that he bore a striking resemblence to Cameron Chambers. (See above. This is a picture that I creepily downloaded off of my friend Hallie's Facebook page. Cameron and Hallie went on a fishing trip to Argentina this past winter. This photo was taken on Thanksgiving.) Cameron is a guy that I went to High School with and have had random encounters with ever since. Now, for the record I have nothing against Cameron Chambers... BUT, the last thing I want is to look over on a first date and see the eerie image of Cameron Chambers looking back at me!

From what I know of the doppelganger, he shares a lot more than just dimples and full lips with Cameron: a love of nature, concern for the planet, a small-town upbringing.

Afer doing a little bit of research on Doppelgangers and their meanings I became rather interested. Doppelganger is a German word deriving from Doppel (double) and Ganger (goer). Doppelgangers historically have been harbingers of bad luck and have oftentimes been used as Evil Twins in literary history. After reading this, I began thinking....Which one is the Doppelganger? Cameron or the New Guy?

After careful consideration and meticulous research (kidding....) I have determined which man is the Doppelganger/Evil twin. Throughout literary and media history, evil twins have become more and more common. So common, in fact, that common themes and patterns have been identified. The most common dissimilarity between the protagonist and his evil twin is the goatee. This was famously illustrated in the Star Trek episode Mirror Universe. In the episode, the goatee was an easy way for the viewing audience to tell "good" Spock from "evil" Spock. Based on this infallible method of judging the character of a man and his Doppelganger, I have determined that based on the photo above, Cameron Chambers is indeed the evil twin. I will take that as a green light to proceed with my date.

[Disclaimer: Cameron - if you ever, by some weird chance, view this Blog... I apologize for casting you into the evil twin stereotype based on your choices in facial hair and also for using Facebook in a very creepy way.]

* For those of you in the dark....

doppelganger
1: a ghostly counterpart of a living person

2 a: double

2 b: alter ego