He was a nighttime shelf-filler at the local supermarket.
He wasn’t very good at it. He kept putting things on the wrong shelves. After several warnings, they let him go. This event led to his girlfriend packing her bags and leaving. However, this downward spiral of his personal circumstances took a sudden turn. In fact, his life began to change radically when his severance pay came through. He couldn’t help suspecting that it was much too generous, but he didn’t feel like complaining. This was soon followed by a nice letter from a venture capital investment company in the city, thanking him for his work and saying how sorry they were that he’d decided to leave, and letting him know that they would be happy to re-employ him at any time in the future. The envelope had his correct address, but he noticed that although his first name was right, his family name was spelt wrong; nothing major, the letter ‘i’ had been used in place of an ‘e’. With all things going digital, he wasn’t surprised.
Things escalated after this.
His latest bank statement came up on his screen. Again, everything was correct, except for his last name. It had an astonishingly large balance! That was when he began to dig deep into the person that he was incorrectly being taken to be. He soon found out that the other was a person of around the same age, single, wealthy, and the owner of a holiday home in Madrid, Spain.
He thought long and hard about how he would handle the situation…
Would he call a halt to the position that this tiny digital error had put him in, or would he go with plan ‘B’?
Although an ex-shelf filler, he had always had natural cunning that was simply bursting to come to the fore. The alternative plan was rather dicey, but doable. He would pay his landlord the remainder of the week’s rent in advance, pack and take the earliest flight to Spain. When there, make arrangements to quickly sell the holiday unit. Fly to the Canary Islands, buy an apartment and lie doggo.
What could possibly go wrong?
He told himself this was Kama, and it was just the way things were meant to be.
He went with plan ‘B’.