Random Thoughts Thread

[PaloAltoCougar]

I miss the Poulan Weed-Eater Bowl.

[Donuthole]

Wasn’t there a local online furniture store that sponsored a Texas bowl game? I liked that one.

[Eddie]

When gmail was still pretty new, I got an invite to join. It was early enough that I was able to use just my first initial and last name for the email address. I thought it was genius. It would be so easy for other people to remember my email - and easy for me as well.

It's been a few years since them - and now, somehow, I get random emails from other people ALL THE TIME.

I'm honestly not sure if it's other people entering their email incorrectly, or if somehow they were able to create essentially the same email that I have and we are both getting these emails - which means maybe they're getting my emails too? I read somewhere once that gmail doesn't distinguish periods. so myemail@gmail is seen the same as my.email@gmail. And I've thought that maybe someone thought they were creating a new email be including a period.

I regularly get receipts from some guy in England for his on-line purchases. (I have to tell you - when I got the email and there was a link to change the shipping address for the 65" TV that was on it's way, I was just a little tempted to go for it!) I get receipts from some gal in North Carolina every time she rents a car - as well as the reservation confirmations, I guess. I got added to a little league baseball parents mailing group. And another woman keeps sending me emails thinking I'm her niece, Mandy. And I got invoices for a guy's internet service in Australia.

But today was a first - I got a confirmation for a tattoo appointment tomorrow at 1:30pm at a place in New Jersey. Somehow, I don't think I'm going to make it. But if any of you happen to be in the area and are interested, let me know and I'll get you the confirmation code.

[Flystripper]

I have this same issue with my gmail. Its weird. I get home depot receipts from New york all the time and Verizon bill pay and statements all the time.

[Scott R Nelson]

I have two GMail accounts, one for my wife and me together and one just for me, mainly for email notifications from forums like this one. I don't think I've ever been confused with anybody else. It probably has something to do with me NOT getting my first choice for account name and having to come up with something a bit more unique.

[BigFatMeanie]

A family in our ward uses the email address nickandlexi at blahblahblah.com. But someone put them on a ward mailing list as nickandlexie- with an extra "e" at the end. Or maybe it's vice-versa, either way - that one little character difference causes the poor impostor Nick and Lexi(e) to get a bunch of ward email spam about ward activities and cleaning assignments and welfare assignments and junk like that.

The impostor Nick and Lexi(e) keeps responding, begging, "please take us off this email list!" but it's hopeless because all the non-tech-savvy goobers in the ward just dredge up an old email and hit reply-all whenever they want to blast some inanity out. Even people that move out of the ward still get spam from the list and reply saying, "Hey, we no longer live in the ward - can you please stop sending us stupid stuff?".

EDIT: I didn't want to be considered a non-tech-savvy goober myself and I figured neither the real nor imposter Nick and Lexi(e) wanted their email splashed on a crawlable page so I changed it to protect the innocent.

[falafel]

I may have shared this before.

There's a guy in Midway who has the same name as me. I have [ourname]@gmail.com, while he has [ourname]@yahoo.com. I guess he forgot that he didn't also have the gmail variant, because he listed my email as the recovery email for his yahoo account. Every so often, i get an email that says that he has logged into the yahoo account from a new device, or that he has changed the password, etc. The first time I got one of these emails, I was confused and thought maybe I did own the yahoo version, so I clicked the link to reset the password. Once I did that and logged in, I realized that it wasn't my account at all. It is his personal account and it is very active. He had church stuff, work stuff, family stuff - including some () nude pictures of his wife.

After that, I found his cell phone number (it was listed in his account) and explained what had happened and gave him the new password. I also told him he should change the recovery email to something else. This was probably 10 years ago. He still hasn't changed it and I still get his recovery emails.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I may have shared this before.

There's a guy in Midway who has the same name as me. I have [ourname]@gmail.com, while he has [ourname]@yahoo.com. I guess he forgot that he didn't also have the gmail variant, because he listed my email as the recovery email for his yahoo account. Every so often, i get an email that says that he has logged into the yahoo account from a new device, or that he has changed the password, etc. The first time I got one of these emails, I was confused and thought maybe I did own the yahoo version, so I clicked the link to reset the password. Once I did that and logged in, I realized that it wasn't my account at all. It is his personal account and it is very active. He had church stuff, work stuff, family stuff - including some () nude pictures of his wife.

After that, I found his cell phone number (it was listed in his account) and explained what had happened and gave him the new password. I also told him he should change the recovery email to something else. This was probably 10 years ago. He still hasn't changed it and I still get his recovery emails.

Is his wife aging well?

[falafel]

Is his wife aging well?

She's keeping it tight.

[beefytee]

When outlook.com came out, I got an alias with just my last name. I now often get emails for some girl in the UK.

[Pelado]

When outlook.com came out, I got an alias with just my last name. I now often get emails for some girl in the UK.

Are you a girl in the UK?

[Eddie]

Not an email thing - but I guess my name is common enough that when we were first married I would get dental bills for one guy's kids and a plumbing bill for another. The dental bill was pretty easy to work out, but the plumber was having none of it when I told them it wasn't me. They insisted they had taken out the bathtub in my second level bathroom, and wanted to get paid!

At the time I was a newlywed living in a small one bedroom apartment. I told them that if they could come over and show me where this second level bathroom is - I'd gladly pay the bill, happy to have the extra space (and extra bathroom!). That was the last I heard from them.

As a side note - how do you send the bill to the wrong address when you've actually been to the home and done work!?!? I would think they would know where they went to remove this bathtub and could just send the bill there instead of chasing me around.

[Green Monstah]

The Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl is probably the worst, IMO.

[beefytee]

Are you a girl in the UK?

No, only in Asia.

[creekster]

No, only in Asia.

So, you're turning Japanese.