Say... Aren't you...
Having a common name has its advantages. If you tried Googling me cold, you'd have difficulty trying to find information about me because of all the other "me's" out there. Among the other people with my name, there are:
However, there is one person with my name that is a source of amusement for my family.
A few months ago, my wife came home from running a few errands with a wicked smile on her face. Given that it was before Christmas, I thought she'd been out getting my Christmas present.
"Dear," she said, "now I know that you won't be interested in this, but I just had to pick this up."
Oh oh, I thought.
She rummaged through a backpack for a few moments and pulled this out:
"This was right at the entrance to the library!" she crowed.
What was I going to say to that? It's kind of cool to know you share a name with someone who's a writer --and a published one at that-- but I can only imagine people coming here thinking I'm Mike Lawson the thriller author and being surprised that... um... no, I'm not. (I did modify my profile to point this out, although you'd think that since he's beardless that would be a dead giveaway.)
My wife left the book on the coffee table, and I didn't think much about it until the kids got home from school. "Look!" they cried. "Dad! That's you!"
"Yeah yeah yeah, I know."
J.R.R. Tolkien never had these problems, did he?
EtA: Compressed a bit o' text to reduce wordiness.
- A cellist
- A dentist
- A gynecologist
- A Professor of Human Development at Binghamton University (sorry Josh, that other Michael Lawson on your campus isn't me)
- A photographer
However, there is one person with my name that is a source of amusement for my family.
A few months ago, my wife came home from running a few errands with a wicked smile on her face. Given that it was before Christmas, I thought she'd been out getting my Christmas present.
"Dear," she said, "now I know that you won't be interested in this, but I just had to pick this up."
Oh oh, I thought.
She rummaged through a backpack for a few moments and pulled this out:
"This was right at the entrance to the library!" she crowed.
What was I going to say to that? It's kind of cool to know you share a name with someone who's a writer --and a published one at that-- but I can only imagine people coming here thinking I'm Mike Lawson the thriller author and being surprised that... um... no, I'm not. (I did modify my profile to point this out, although you'd think that since he's beardless that would be a dead giveaway.)
My wife left the book on the coffee table, and I didn't think much about it until the kids got home from school. "Look!" they cried. "Dad! That's you!"
"Yeah yeah yeah, I know."
J.R.R. Tolkien never had these problems, did he?
EtA: Compressed a bit o' text to reduce wordiness.