I’m sure I touched on this subject before, but I have once again, been getting a slew of emails to my two gmail addresses, thinking I’m someone else. I suppose it’s one of the bad things about signing up to a “new” serice when it first launches. Many of my friends sent me invites. I’m *that* popular.

Unfortunately, as gmail (or googlemail in some parts of the world) grew, other people began to create some similar email addresses to mine, and wouldn’t you know it, they would occasionally get theirs wrong, and I’d end up with an email fromsomeone who I’ve never heard of.

This allowed me to have some fun. Well, I thought it was fun.

Back in November, I got an email from someone called Marie, inviting me to view somebody’s thanksgiving photos on Picasa. I thought I’d inform Marie that I was not the intended recipient.

Marie,
I think you’ll see
That I’m not the addressee
You thought it would be.

I thought that’d be the end of it. No. Two weeks later, another Picasa request, this time inviting me to view photos of a snowstorm. Joy. I declined, but it at least gave me a second chance to be creative…

Marie,
Could This Be
The Second Time I see
A Picasa Request From Thee
And I have to write a rhyme-ee
to Tell you I am not he
Coincidentally, the weather here is snow-ee.
And now I’ll…. drink some tea
As I clearly am running out of rhymes for Marie.

Several days later, I received an apology email, and thankfully, I wouldn’t have to resort to a third set of crap rhyming.

Things went quiet for a few months (apart from instructions on how to “wire” money to, or from someone… couldn’t tell), then I received an email, asking if I knew the directions to a ministry school, and what to expect on the first day…

My response?

Nope.

I never heard back from that one.

Someone called John Percival had given my email address in relation to (if I remember correctly) some type of accident. It was asking for details of “my” accident, and “my” physical condition. I remember going into a full-scale description about accidentally burning toast, using the last two slices of bread, my physical condition about being gutted at the incinerated toast, now slightly hungry, and to top it all off, banging my funny-bone on the door handle on my way back up the stairs.

It was a work of art. Unfortunately, I bottled it, and just replied with a “You have the wrong email address” message, and didn’t think of copying, pasting and saving something which I literally spent an hour on. Grrrrr.

I received one entirely in Spanish, with 2Mb worth of PDFs attached. Clearly not for me. I replied back with “El wrongo email adddresso”. Yes, I really did make that 3D’s typo. Bohh.

Occasionally, they do backfire, when I try to be funny, and the joke is totally lost on the recipient.

I received some more PDFs from someone else that were probably meant to be translated from German to English. My reply was…

I have fed them into the translator. The response was “WTF IS THIS SHITE?”

Admittedly, I was rat-arsed when I sent that. My childish humour backfired when I received an email back saying “Thanks, but what does shite mean?”. I backed out of that one with my tail between my legs, and deleted his email. No response as of yet. He probably didn’t realise he’d got the wrong person, and now thinks someone else is a complete arse. Whoopsy.

Now, the whole reason I came to this subject was an email I received some someone else tonight. For the past few weeks, I’ve been receiving jokes from someone in New Zealand. Now, l originally told the person that they’ve got the wrong person, but the jokes are actually funny, and I don’t mind reading them, so Iwasn’t overly offended when I kept receiving them.

Occasionally, you’d get the odd bit of complete arse…

GUARDIAN ANGEL

Please try to send it to at least 7 of your friends

I don’t *have* 7 friends, but what is odd, is that tomorrow will be Saturday. I’m working nights, so I will be coming back through the gates of MV Towers at approximately 8:23.

Clearly, the last few days haven’t been very exciting, though I did get my hair cut today. It’s gone up from £6 to £6.50.