Mistaken Identity
I have several email addresses, which I’m sure a lot of you do. I even have a couple of gmail addresses which I rarely use and don’t give out to people I meet in real life.
Today, I got an email from someone saying she now had my info in her address book and it was great to meet my husband and that my band sounded wonderful. Um, huh? It took me a few minutes to wrap my brain around it all since I do have a husband and he does have a band. And technically, I guess I’m in a band, too, if you count our church band, but we haven’t done anything since May and won’t again until next month. And, as I said before, I don’t give that email out to anyone!
Anyway, I did the logical thing. I wrote back and said, “do I know you?” She wrote back and said I had just given her the address and was visiting someone in the hospital. Well, obviously, I’m at home and haven’t given anyone any email addresses in a hospital. So, I emailed her back and told her that this email address didn’t belong to whomever she was talking to.
I also went to my gmail account to make sure nothing looked fishy (nothing did) and did a google search on my gmail address (nothing came up) and also mygmailaddress with a number instead of a number word at gmail dot com. Bingo! Someone named Karen with a band has that email address. Very very weird coincidence, but a legitimate mistake. I wrote back to my “newfound friend” and gave her the other email address, but as of yet, I haven’t heard back from her. I imagine I probably won’t. But I thought it was nice of me nonetheless! There was also a selfish reason in wanting to make sure that there wasn’t someone out there trying to steal my identity or something. ;)
Anyway, there’s my alternate universe story of the week. My life is so weird sometimes.
