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I'm beside myself... kinda

About a month ago I got an email that appeared to be a mass email to a college class regarding some assignment or some such thing. I was confused, but deleted it without reply. Then I got a second one from the same professor, so I sent a clear and polite message that I was not one of his students and I'd appreciate him taking me off his list.

He responded with equal politeness, apologized and agreed to take me off. A couple days later I got another one, this time I looked through the list of email addresses to see if somebody I knew was on the list. I figured maybe I somehow ended up on a list with one of my friends that are still in college. I'm not sure how that would work, but it's all I could think of.

AH-HA! I found something pretty damn close to being me actually. There was a joeymoore AT hotmail DOT co DOT uk. I sent another email to the professor pointing out that I am not that guy, and he again apologized. But this time I got a pleasent surprise. The teacher must have mentioned me to the other Joey, because I got a very short email from him as well.

"Haha. You have my name. Haha."

I have a new penpal! The funniest part of the coincidence is that I happen to find someone with my name in the same week that all my coworkers are teasing me by naming everything after me. The vain actor ego in me is loving all of this.

After a few messages back and forth, I jokingly pointed out that he actually has my name, and not the vice versa, because I am eight years his senior. He's a seventeen year-old college kid at a university in Hendon (a suburb of London, right near Cricklewood where I stayed a couple summers ago). He works in a mall, and seems like your average teenager.

I have mentioned THIS BOOK here before. It's a big fun list of a bunch of stuff that you probably should do at least once in this life. The list includes swimming with a dolphin, riding the world's tallest rollercoasters, and getting arrested. One of the tasks is to meet someone with your name. I hope that one day I can meet this kid, and not just to cross him off the list. He seems cool. Besides, it will give one of us an excuse to travel halfway across the world, and lord knows there's nothing wrong with doing that once in a while.

COMMENTS:

Hey I've been arrested, and swam with a dolphin.
If only I could have been arrested by a dolphin. Now that would be sweet.
Brian Y 04.10.06 - 6:28 pm

Brian, what were you arrested for?
Edward Carter 04.10.06 - 7:32 pm

You've been arrested? Seriously? What for?
Joey 04.10.06 - 9:30 pm

Ok the stupidest time was in Oregon when i was younger. I am not kidding here, but two friends and I broke a branch to a small tree outside the town bank. The bank manager called the cops and they "bagged us" and took us to the police station. I use the word station loosely, it was Merrill after all. Luckily my mom worked next door, in the same building.
Oh wait that wasn't luck, it only made it worse. I got in all kinds of trouble. Why I don't know, but I think it embarrassed her. Anyways I got in mad trouble for breaking a branch. Seriously. The branch only broke because I was trying to reach a flower bloom. The youth and their deliquent botanical treasures.
Brian Y 04.11.06 - 12:34 am

So wait, you get arrested for trying to get a flower, then some ten years later we load up my car with god knows how many plants and get off scot free? Must be kharma.
Josh 04.16.06 - 3:22 pm