This week I interviews seniors Alyssa and Carolyn Downing.
How well do you get along?
Carolyn: Well…not really, sometimes we talk.
Alyssa: It depends if she makes me mad or if she has a project due. When she doesn’t, she’s all right.
What interests do you have in common?
Carolyn: We bond every Tuesday night watching Pretty Little Liars and Dance Moms, and then on Wednesday Modern Family and The Middle, and then on Sundays it’s the Kardashians.
Alyssa: That sums it up.
What are your different interests?
Alyssa: Carolyn is more intense about school, and she attempts to play sports.
Carolyn: Alyssa dances; I don’t do that.
How many mutual friends do you have?
Carolyn: Alyssa has no friends, so she has mine.
Alyssa: No, they are actually my friends, and Carolyn tags along, but really same group.
What do you like and dislike about being identical?
Carolyn: I mean one of these days, I could probably get away with sending her to work for me or something. I’m too scared to do that! Also, I hate when people mistake us. One time someone came up to me in the mall and gave me a huge hug, and I’m just like “Who are you?”
Alyssa: Carolyn has taken a lot of the classes I take before, so she can help me out.
What bothers you about your sister?
Carolyn: More than once, she has not communicated with me at the end of the school day, even though we have been in the same fourth block class for the last 2 years, and she has driven off without me or left me at the school without me grabbing my sports stuff from the car (and this has always happened on game days). Then she doesn’t answer her phone when I call her to turn around. Oh that’s another thing she never answers her phone when I call.
Alyssa: Sharing everything with her from the computer (which it is World War III in the Downing household when we both have a project or essay due at the same time) to the car when she expects me to put gas in. She’s also smarter than me, so people always compare us.
Do you guys have any funny memories?
We passed each other in the hall like a one-on-one moment. We were both walking with someone, and we didn’t acknowledge each other. But we acknowledged who each other was walking with…. Awk.
