For the past several months I’ve found myself intrigued by a young man (he looks to my untrained eye to be around eight or nine) who delivers flyers in our neighborhood. He has a page boy haircut — a cute one, not a debilitating one — and is rather adorable in a “I’d rather not be delivering papers, but since I am, I might as well do it very slowly” sort of way. The thing that initially intrigued me, aside from the haircut, is that he delivers papers during school hours. Is he homeschooled? Is he part of an alternative lifestyle group that keeps separate hours? Has he moved out and the route is how he pays for his apartment?
Yesterday the plot thickened. I saw the boy walking in the direction of school. But with him were two other boys just like him! I mean exactly like him: same hair, same clothes, same face. My flyer delivery boy is an identical triplet! He and his brothers have been the ones delivering the flyers.
Now the question is: how do they do this during school hours? Does one sneak out of the class leaving the other two do a lot of shifting around to distract the teacher from the realization that there’s only two of them rather than the usual three? The potential here for mischief is amazing. Is one a hardcore capitalist? A budding entrepreneur and the other two are lazy young fellows? Does one finance the video game habits of the three of them with his in-school manual labor? Or are they a flyer delivering collective?
I must find out more about the flyer triplets. For instance, do they like dressing the same or is that some parent’s misguided idea of a time-saving device? And how do I find all this out without being creepy? Creepier… I already stare too much. My inner-Nancy Drew must find out!