24 February 2018

I think it Happened again. This would be the third time! I saw him driving my Black Toyota. I was sitting in the backseat and was momentarily distracted by a gleaming Porsche across the street. And I saw him driving that car too! I looked back and here he was driving my car. I looked away and there he was driving what I wished, were my car.

Two hours back, it had happened for the first time. I was calling him up to drive me to the airport. Over the phone, I heard him say I’ll be there soon, and one second later, he was ringing my doorbell. I know it was him because I could see him from the CCTV Camera we had recently installed at our doorstep, to prevent trespassing mosquitoes. But that isn’t the weird part. The strange thing happened when he crossed me in a hurry on my route towards the door, and asked me to get ready fast as he’ll answer the door. It struck me only after the door was answered that he could not have possibly let himself in but by then, I could see only one of him.

The second time this happened, it was worse. This was half an hour before the third encounter. We had stopped at a roadside KFC for some food. I asked him to buy some hamburgers for me. He complied and on his way to KFC, collided with a man carrying a food packet. I saw him apologise and walk back towards my car to hand me over the burgers before climbing back in and starting the engine. Then I saw him walk into the KFC, only a second before we cruised away in our car.

Now I am on an international flight. Boarding procedures had almost obliterated the double trouble from my mind. I relaxed upon the airplane seat and read through the newspaper. It was then that I read it…

Black coloured Toyota suffers the ‘Worst Accident Ever’

The Passenger is dead but the driver escapes in perfect health

Then I saw my body, lying peacefully in 2 severed pieces, soaked in blood and he was shedding tears of loss, in a photograph accompanying the newspaper report. “That poor man looks just like you”, he observed from the seat beside me.

Arkadeep Mukhopadhyay

Editor-in-chief

Antarctica Daily