Mistaken For Someone Else (Sorta)
I keep getting emails for someone else. Her first initial and last name are the same as mine, but I've got dibs on the email address everyone assumes is hers, so every so often I get personal emails intended for her. I always reply back with something along the lines of, Hey, asshole, you've got the wrong person! No! I'm just kidding. I'm always quite kind when I tell them they're reached the wrong soul.
But I think it's kind of funny. She must have mistakenly told an awful lot of people the wrong email, as I get stuff from all kinds of different sources. In fact, today I was invited to spend the Christmas holidays with someone named Tim and his family up at the Lake. I think I may just take him up on the offer . . .
The National--"Mistaken For Strangers" mp3 off Boxer (buy)
you can always spend the winter in Seattle with us, bring your parka, but
of course no umbrellas allowed.
I once got a whole series of emails about someone names "Aunt Winnie" for
whom I think a party was being organized. It was amusing. The funny thing
was that, b/c there are few folks in the US with my last name, I checked
into it a bit to see if they were distant relatives! (They weren't - at
least not post-immigration.)
If you were a little more evil you could really have fun with that.
Yeah that is funny...And I would totally show up Christmas time and be like
"Hey guys!" That would be awesome. :)
juan--it felt like seattle here today--cold and windy and raining all day
long. not quite parka weather yet, though. do they frown upon umbrellas in
the pacific northwest or something?
Oh, wait... you mean you aren't *that* Marcy...?
You can tell the recent arrivals and the tourists from the amount of
moisture protection that is carried outdoors... umbrellas being the first
sign. It rains so much that umbrellas just seem kind of useless: you will
be wet often no matter what.
colin--that's right, i'm really margie. ;-) or marsha. or mabel. or mavis.
ooh, i could be anybody, couldn't i?
I once got an e-mail from someone meant for her manager detailing how she'd
had a nervous breakdown & was on all sorts of drugs, hence the poor quality
of her recent work performance. I was torn, but I let her know it had gone
astray, figuring if it was that important she'd want to know it hadn't
quite made it to it's destination...
oh, i'm sure she appreciated knowing it hadn't reached its destination. i
once got an email with someone's children's social security numbers in it,
had to do with medical insurance or something. i let that person know that
i was not the intended recipient as well. makes you wonder, though, how
often that kind of stuff happens. yeesh. and yes, maybe i should email old
tim back and tell him i'm bringing my extended family with me!
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