My top 5 secret identities

This week's prompt for Sunday Scribblings is "secret identity."

Throughout my lifetime, usually around Halloween, I've taken on other identities. They've not been so secret, as my disguises are most often homemade and simple. It's always easy to tell that it's me.

But then I realized this: After I take the Halloween costume off and it's back to normal life, if I still feel like my costumed self, yet I look like me, then that's a secret identity, right? Aha!

So I've come up with a short list of favorite secret identities. These sprang to life when I was much younger, and are in no particular order:

1. An intergalactic princess fleeing the Empire with her two adorable 'droids in tow. (I felt like Princess Leia, though strictly earthbound, for at least a year.)
2. A ten-year-old neighborhood spy, in cahoots with best friend, stealthily roaming the neighborhood with notebooks and pencils in hand, soon discovering that there was absolutely nothing worthwhile to record. Once we found a neighbor taking a nap in his car, but because he napped for so long, we eventually gave up finding anything else out about this "incident" and went home. (Our parents had no idea...or did they?)
3. A black cat. (Is this why I made feline-allergic people sneeze?)
4. A dolphin or a mermaid, depending on which pool and which mood I was in at the time. (It's still fun to pretend this while swimming.)
5. Static. Yes, static. One time when a telemarketer called, I pretended to be noise interference on the line. The call quickly ended. My secret identity was highly effective. (The twelve-year-old mind is full of strange inspiration. Now I just thank them and say I'm not interested, though it's not as effective as being static.)

Now you know.

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Comments

[lacithecat]

I loved number 5.

Really cute take on the prompt

[rel]

Kristin,
How perfectly appropraite to think of halloween and all the different characters you've portrayed. Your story is ec-static!
(sorry, couldn't help myself.)
I do the, imagine myself some fictional super dude when I'm shoveling snow. Espesially if I shovel for an hour or more....yes, even today. Well not today today but, you know...like 2007. ;-)
rel

[Mardougrrl]

What a great, great post...your voice is so strong, it's like you are in the room with me, chatting. I like that. :)

[Crafty Green Poet]

Excellent list, I love number 5 especailly - I'll need to try that sometime!

[gautami]

I love the list. I too like the coolest. No 5.

But black cat would as well with golden eyes.

[azma]

I used to pretend I was an Arctic explorer when walking to school in the snow. And sometimes a spy. And a last one- this comes in useful in real life- someone who doesn't know how to speak English.

[KG]

Lacithecat — Thank you, and so nice to meet you!

rel — I'm so glad you write "ec-static" --- heh, heh. :)

Mardougrrl — Chatting would be fun!

Craft Green Poet — After you try 5, let me know how it goes.

gautami — Golden eyes --- absolutely!

azma — Your secret identities sound fun and very useful!

[deirdre]

Your secret identities sound like fun. I'll have to try the static with telemarketers. :)

[KG]

deidre — You and Crafty Green Poet are going to have to report back on your static "research." And thanks for dropping by!