Pledge

“What the hell is going on here?” Michelle asked looking down at her now larger and hairier hands.

“OMG!” Derek exclaimed, “You don’t know? There was a whole thing a few years back about hazing and harassment an stuff. Now as part of the pledge process, the frats together with the sororities to have pledges swap bodies for a bit. I think it’s supposed to teach empathy so, like, we don’t take advantage of you at parties or whatever.”

“That’s what it’s supposed to teach you; what the heck is this supposed to teach ME!?”

Derek shrugged. He was pretty sure he wasn’t going to learn anything anyway.

Average

I think you often hear a lot of stories about people ending up with incredible bodies as a result of the Great Shift; sometimes you hear a horror story. But let’s face it, most people are fairly average. That means that I, like most people, swapped into a body that was pretty average.

I guess the only interesting part for me was going from male to female, but I felt like a mostly average woman. I wasn’t particularly pretty or ugly -- just somewhere in the middle -- an average weight, and an average age too.

I thought it might be possible to look prettier with makeup, but I was a guy before all this and hadn’t bothered to learn yet. Maybe I could lose some weight to look a little better, but I still picked up the usual stuff from the grocery store. I don’t think I was about to break out of average any time soon.

Student:Faculty Ratio

The student:faculty ratio at Kyle’s college was 1:14. That meant when the Great Shift happened, there was around a 93% chance that he should’ve swapped with another student. How the heck did he end up in the 7% and swap with one of the librarians?

All the odds suggested he’d swap with one of his classmates and stay young. Maybe he could’ve even gotten an upgrade -- go from nerd to jock or something? But, no, this was definitely a step down for him. He was 50 years old! He was getting gray hair! He could feel the way his bones ached! It was all awful!

And for the time being, until they could sort out who was who, he was still having to do her job in the campus library. Maybe this all wouldn’t be so bad if he could just get back to class.

The Desire to Give Up Is Strong This Week

That's all.

Wearing

Linn seemed angry when she approached me the day after our body swap. “What the hell do you think you are doing?” She asked, “I thought we agreed to act our best to be each other until we could swap back.”

“What are you talking about?” I asked. I literally had no clue.

“Nylons? A leather skirt? Have you ever seen me walk around the office wearing anything remotely like that.”

I folded my arms. Was she serious? Everything I was wearing came out of her closet! I had Googled appropriate work clothes for women before getting dressed! I really thought it was fine! I mean, seriously, I did my best while being stuck in her body!