Fucking Bait and Switch

I received a job offer from my catering company that had this sentence in the details section.

"Super VIP birthday for mega-celebrity whose blockbuster movie opens Wednesday, June 29 and just became engaged to another celebrity"

Now does this sentence apply to:

A. Tom Cruise
B. Vic Armstrong

If you guessed A, you guessed wrong, but that is what everyone thought. People at the office were really jealous of me and other catering people tried to get me to trade the shift with them. I was not about to, because June 29 was my birthday and also my one year anniversary of my move to L.A., needless to say I was ecstatic to spend my birthday with Mr. Tom Cruise.

Even the event personnel at Paramount Studios thought it was for Tom Cruise, ladies kept coming by and asking, is he here yet, and we had to keep telling them no. I started to get a little suspicious when we went to the sound stage that the party was being held at and it was where they shoot "Soul Train" and they didn't have any sort of decorations up. I became convinced that I had been tricked when one guy put up two signs that said "Congratulations Vic on 40 years in the biz". But still people where convinced that it was all just a rouse to keep it in the dark. At 9pm my fears where realized when in walked Vic Armstrong. He is a guy who started out as a stunt man and doubled for Harrison Ford in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", and became a stunt coordinator for such high profile films as the last three James Bond movies. His last job is being the stunt coordinator for "Mission Impossible III", which is probably where the mix-up occured.

Working the event was really easy, but I still felt let down. I had told a bunch of people and now I have to tell them I was fooled.

I kept thinking of the line from "Malcom X" when he says, "We've been had, hoodwinked, bamboozzled......" and indeed I was.