A million and one of me

[listersgirl]

At my "real" email address (aka the one with my real name) I've been getting a lot of mail that is clearly intended for people other than me -- people with my same name. I am so not unique *sob*. The first few I responded back to the person, letting them know that I was not the Rachel they were looking for, and they were all very thankful, but it's getting kind of boring. Especially because of the family in Texas, who originally included me in a group email, and now I'm getting random other emails from all the other people included in that email, included an evite to a barbeque, which I politely declined.

It's just-- I'd like to ignore them, but I know what a pain it is when someone doesn't answer an email and you don't know whether they're ignoring you or whether the email got lost in the ether somewhere.

Or maybe I could just start to steal their lives! This latest email had flight information for a trip to Bulgaria and Austria. I could totally take that. Of course, I'd have to get to Dublin first, but still. Ski trip! Nevermind that I don't know how to ski.

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[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i am the only me, so i get no interesting email -and- i have no excuse for interesting google results. sigh.

[listersgirl]

There are far too many of me, and they all seem to be gymnasts or porn stars.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

none are both?

[listersgirl]

Surprisingly, no. Although I do think it's unfair that I didn't get any of the bendy genes that apparently come with my name.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

it is tragic indeed.

[jopickles.livejournal.com]

I took an email address at telus that is my SCA name. I guess I took it right after someone else moved and didn't continue her email with telus....

It's been 4 years and I still get emails to this girl. I think she is still using it in some of her emails because I get responses that are "oh thanks for the not about our baby, blah blah blah, here's more pictures."

And I guess she recently has a fight with one of her bridesmaids and the bridesmaid sent me a snotty note. I sent her a response saying "this isn't the person you're looking for. Perhaps you should phone her?" and I got an even nastier response that basically said "oh that's so typically you, faking you're not who you are just so that you don't have to deal with me"

People on the internet are crazy!

[listersgirl]

Bwa! Oh lord, that's hilarious.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I am a tree scientist professor in the Uk... but that's all. In addition to being me, that is.

OOh, I am also a business professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, whatever that is.

And a psychology prof at Kingston U in the UK...

Why am I all professors, except for me?

[goblinshark.livejournal.com]

I keep getting phone calls for a woman named Esther. It seems that the stupid phone company gave me her old number. Sadly, she's not getting any interesting calls.

[listersgirl]

My last phone number used to be a fax machine, I think, because we kept getting phone calls from The Beep. It was both highly irritating and somewhat amusing.

[goblinshark.livejournal.com]

What gets me is when I tell people that this isn't the right number anymore, and they try to argue with me. Do I sound like Esther or something?

[jopickles.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I get people like that too. They always ask for Bill here though.

The other people I hate are the ones that call and instead of saying hello say "who's this?"

The last idiot to do that to me caught me after a bad day at work and I totally chewed his butt off. "Who the hell do you think you were calling, idiot? I'm not the one who dialed the freaking phone!" (and then hung up).

[goblinshark.livejournal.com]

The thing is I have a funny sounding voice. To mistake me for someone else takes a lot of not paying attention. Unless of course Esther the exact same strange accent, which would be really funny.

[iseult-variante.livejournal.com]

Psh, skiing is mostly just gravity anyway! ;) Use the misdirected e-mails for evil fun!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

There are *so many* people with my name! I don't often get e-mail for any of the others, but when I do, I always feel obliged to let people know that they've got it wrong.

I've had the same thing happen with group e-mails! You can find out the most interesting things that way....

[emiline.livejournal.com]

I can understand using your name for an email and getting emails for someone with the same name. A while back I tried to email a friend, although I had the wrong email (one letter was missing). Some dude name Allan Brock (or something like that) has an email beginning with lizwiz, which I didn't understand at all. My friend, at least, is named Liz and her last name starts with the sound wiz.

[hardcormier.livejournal.com]

You should totally just start showing up to things and bring the email along. Imagine the friends you'd make. When I worked for the government as a summer intern I used to get invited to top secret meetings all the time by mistake. I never went but now I kind of wish I had.

[listersgirl]

Nice! Think of all the extra money you could have earned by passing on those secrets. ;)

[hardcormier.livejournal.com]

They'd probably have made me get a cyanide tooth or something.

[listersgirl]

And an implant so they'd know where you were at all times.

[pauliatchy.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's weird! For 4 or 5 years, I was regularly get messages from some woman at my Yahoo email address. 99% of them were email forwards, and so I didn't give it any thought, I just figured that she was a friend of a friend. One day, I got a message saying Happy Anniversary Paul and Dolores. I sent a message back saying, "I think you may have the wrong dude." It turns out that my address was pfrench13, and her brother's was 13pfrench. What are the odds that we would both use the same number as well?!? Anyway, she said it made so much clear, since she had wondered why she never heard back from her brother when she emailed him, and why he never seemed to remember any of the jokes she sent on occasions where she spoke to him.

Turns out her brother lives in Texas, where apparently all of our namesake doppelgangers live. He got in touch shortly afterward, and we exchange emails from time to time. He keeps me up to date on the Austin music scene.

[listersgirl]

Maybe Texas is where they hide all the clones! Although it saddens me to realize that my clone is more popular than me...