Women who do too much.

Sarah Brown mentioned before, her Gmail appears to be a portal to the lives of the other Sarah Brown.

My Gmail account appears to be doing the same thing, though we have not yet crossed paths in real life. Still, I think you might like to know what the other Melissa Summers' (I think I'm getting mail for three of them) of the world are doing.

Veronica would like her to pick up Alex for soccer practice tonight. Veronica says thanks, Paul will be on the field!

Mary would like to invite her to the first Social Justice Committee Meeting May 1st.

Is happily welcomed to the Jantz School Of Dance summer program!

The Jantz School of Dance would like to apologize, they had a computer glitch and everyone was sent the welcome to the summer program email. She should please refer to the list in the school lobby to be sure she is actually happily welcomed into the summer program.  *Ed Note: Way to go Jantz School. Dumb asses.

Should really know about the mess the driveway in the carpool lane is. Because something needs to be done. CHILDREN ARE GETTING COATED IN MUD. (Ed Note: Caps are Christine's.) *Christine is finding the situation very frustrating.

Really needs to do something about the dinner service situation because Jane and Caitlin made it work once again when other people "fell down on their responsibility". Jane and Caitlin pulled the meal together on the fly but this just can't keep happening. Caitlin really looked forward to this service project but has been very disappointed. cc'd Leslie Markoff who also needs to do something about this. I presume. (PS: Jane, Caitlin is trying to kill you with her eyes.)

Is a greeter at Sunday morning services on the following dates. 4/6 4/13 4/20 5/4 and 5/18. She needs to be on time and make sure the doughnuts are set up prior to the end of the service.

Is asked to consider greeting on these dates in June....(you get the idea). *Ed Note: This Melissa Summers is being pooched.

Needs to take care of the horse race fund raiser because there is a lot of confusion *As per Marie LaMonde.

Is being invited away for a BIG ALL GIRL SPRING TRIP before they all graduate! Sarah is NOT LETTING ANYONE SAY NO! WE [THEY] ARE DOING THIS! (Apparently Sarah isn't very popular because three people reply they are actually not going on the trip, even though they're not allowed to say no.)

To sum up: getting the email for several Melissa Summers is kind of stressful. Also, I think a few of the Melissa Summers in the world need to check out this book.  Maybe also this one.

Comments

[Jenn @ Juggling Life]

Very funny. There are two women out there who share my rather unusual name (well, the last is unusual, the first not so much) who are both apparently total deadbeats. I really know how to deal with bill collector phone calls. Especially those who are inclined to disbelieve you when you say they have the wrong person!

[Nuisance]

I love this.

There is a woman in this relatively low populated state who shares my first, middle, and last name, in addition to...MY BIRTHDATE. The year is different, but the date is the same.

Freaky, huh? And no relation!

I get stuff all the time for Obstetric Nurse Practitioners, and I'm sure she gets stuff for politically interested depressives with an interest in knitting and science fiction. Fun!

[Nuisance]

Oh yeah - AND?

I went to university in the same city she practices, and once she actually contacted me and requested that I CHANGE MY NAME. Seriously. Like, not formally but she would prefer if I went by my middle name or something.

This other me, she is a bit of a humorless tightass.

[krstnb]

My aunt is a Melissa Summers... to make it a little more weird, she lives in the Detroit area too.

[Melissa Summers]

Jen! That is UN-REAL!!!!!

I can't believe the nerve!

[Megan]

My Gmail name is mmorrison (stalk me, internet!), so I tend to get e-mail for EVERY OTHER M MORRISON EVER. Mike Morrison uses my address for just about everything in his life -- making reservations with a travel agent, getting his car repaired, signing up for loans. A 56-year-old Canadian woman once signed up for a lesbian dating site and it e-mailed me every time she logged in and changed something. "Congratulations! You are now listed as 56 and gay!" "Congratulations! We found a match!"

If it's something mildly important, I usually reply and say they have the wrong address. Over the weekend, someone actually wrote back to me and asked why I signed the e-mail as Megan. Because you have the wrong address, HOW WAS THAT NOT CLEAR.

[Megan]

Also, just for you, I dug up my favorite of Mike's e-mails, dated 11/13/05. Mike has not known his address for many, many years.

"Mike, I am miserable....why don't you care. It sucks to be here on a Saturday night with no one to talk to or be with...I thought you wanted to go to dinner? I need to talk to you......I need to talk, where did you go?

Melissa"

[FabGirl]

BWAHAHAHA @ the word pooched. Perfect!
Also, Megan? Funniest comment, evah! "You are now 56 and gay!" Heeee.
Oh, god, I so wish I got other people's emails. Instead I get crabby notes from my editors and chain mails from my m-i-l. Sad.

[Nuisance]

I know, right? AND she was really quite pissed when I told her to get bent!

[Carrie]

My husband gets gmail for another Doug Miller...one who apparently isn't very well liked by his former co-workers. He got this gem a few weeks ago:

"Hello Unemployed,

Glad to see LifeMasters finally got rid of your pathetic micromanaging ass. Nobody liked you. Your own team dreaded you (yes including ass kissing Brandon). Oh, you are Interviewing for a job in London? Please. They couldn't have gotten rid of you at a better time. The economy is going to hell and an over-paid ass goblin like yourself will get to feel the heat for a change. Ah, sweet justice! Hope you been saving money. Scratch that, no I don't. I'm all giddy typing this because it feels so GOOD!

Tae Kim, as horrible as he was, would be considered an upgrade compared to you. Yes, I said it. Let the truth be told, you weren't very technical and all you did was introduce more red tape. You didn't fix much, but you did run off some good people. I guess that finally caught up to you in the end. I guess my e-mail to your boss a few months back must have been taken seriously. :-)

Enjoy the classifieds and recruiters you self absorbed ass hat! We ALL are enjoying this."

Ahh, funny stuff...

[Brenda]

Here is how rare my last name is: I just registered my full name @gmail TODAY. So this is not a problem I can relate to.

[Bonzai]

Damn! I feel totally ripped off! I never, ever get anyone else's mail - just stupid foreign lottery scam spam and other really BORING junk.

[Inzaburbs]

I too am insanely jealous. I have a very common name, yet I never get to live vicariously.

Even emails about children getting covered in mud would be an upgrade on my present situation, which is mostly spam, updates on my mother's yard (she just put down pine needles stolen from a local forest) and virus warnings, many times forwarded, from an old lady in Louisiana.

[AnneM]

I get Gmail for the other AnneM all the time. At one point I even wrote to her to say look, if you aren't getting important stuff, this is probably why, you might want to notify people of the difference between our email addresses. She wrote back and was very nice, but still didn't tell anyone about how to correct her email address! So I hear all about the plans with her cousins to go skiing in Vermont, and she gets emails written in some foreign language, somebody's baby shower coming up, etc. I'm jealous of all the fun!

[Jayne]

Our new catalog at work lets me look up patrons by first name, so immediately I had to search for "Jayne" to see how many of us there are. I was disappointed to find out that (though supposedly no one on earth has ever seen the name Jane spelled with a Y) we have 4 Jaynes and 1 Jaynell.