Real Stories of People Who Lead Incredible Double Lives
Leading a double life can be exhilarating, but also very stressful. It can be difficult not to give the game away and let someone in on your secret. Here are some examples of people who perfectly partitioned their worlds and maintained incredible double lives.
Across the Pond
I’m English, but have spent much of my youth in the US, and live here now with a green card. When I worked retail, I adopted an American accent, because it’s more efficient than having to explain to everyone that I’m English and moved here when I was 14 etc etc. It was just more efficient.
This continued into office jobs until we were in a meeting with some English clients, who spoke first. I immediately went English.
By boss looks at me for second, stops the meeting and says “Are you having a stroke?”
Then I had to explain and we wasted half an hour. Sigh. Story credit: Reddit / UnknownQTY
DJ Teacher
About 14 years ago after I just graduated college I got a job teaching at a middle school but I was still DJing nights at an goth-industrial night club.
Teacher by day, Rivethead DJ by night. that’s about as double-life as I have ever been. It didn’t last tho, I was having a hard time stayin alert and awake at school… so I gave up the teaching.
Story credit: Reddit / Roobomatic
Twelve-Year Old Scammer
During the great depression my grandfather was injured at his job and couldn’t work. For a year, to keep the family going, my then 12 year old father and his older brother dropped out of school and ran “change raising” scams on shop keepers in Cleveland Ohio for money, pretty much as the family’s only income.
My grandparents knew about it, didn’t approve, but didn’t stop them either, it’s just what kept food on the table in tough times. After a year, grandpa went back to work, and my dad and uncle went back to school and to just being regular kids again.
“Change Raising” is a generic term for several variations for scamming a cashier while they are giving you your change from whatever purchase you just made.
They are all various cover stories for getting the cashier to combine several change-giving transactions at the same time, and the cashier ultimately ends up giving you too much change for your purchase. The scammer ends up with both the item and some extra cash.
When it’s done well the cashier won’t even know it happened.
My father taught me how to do several variations of it, including one that is still probably not well known. He showed it to me with me as the “cashier” and, even knowing it was going to happen, he still had to slow down and explain to me where the mistake occurs.
With the right person doing it, it’s slick. Story credit: Reddit / picksandchooses
The Best of Both Worlds
In highschool, I was the the quiet nerdy guy. Glasses, shaggy hair, always had a book in my hands. And then I went home I would change clothes, put in contacts, grab my equipment, and was by night one of the major players in the dj scene where I lived.
It was at the point I would run into people from school and they wouldn’t recognize me. Both were my REAL life, and both were who I REALLY loved to be, each in their respective venues.
Story credit: Reddit / Boneshansen93