the irony is only bitter now

[musesfool]

Remember how I was getting email that didn't belong to me, because some other victoria p. thinks my gmail address is her gmail address (note)? Well, today I got one about online bill payment and it had an "if you received this email in error" phone number on it. So I called and told them, I AM NOT THIS VICKI PERSON YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO REACH.

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[timesink]

sometimes we do root for the team that beat our team, because it allows us the comfort of believing in the "team of destiny" fairy tale ... because it allows us to say, "Well, we were beaten by the world champs and nobody else could beat them either!"

I do this all the time! This is precisely why I now want the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup, even though hockey is not my game. It'll make the rest of the city feel better.

You're not (that) crazy. {g}

[musesfool]

Not because of that, anyway. *g* And better the Habs than the Penguins, I say.

[vaznetti]

My mother, otoh, grew up a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. She never ever ever roots for the Yankees and wouldn't even if they had Jesus on the mound and Mother Theresa playing third. She made my father convert to being a Mets fan when they got married.

I have this suspicion that Brooklyn Dodgers fans are like those really diehard Harry/Hermione people, or whoever the craziest shippers are in your fandom. I mean, I'm not sure my father has seen a baseball game since Ebbets Field was torn down.

[musesfool]

Dude, yes! I worked for a guy who gave up on baseball when the Dodgers moved to LA.

[lizbee]

I have a similar problem with someone on Facebook who shares my name - not only do I get her FB notifications, but I get emails from her relatives, and invitations to family reunions. I've taken to answering them with, "Please can you call your daughter/niece/sister/cousin and tell her to fix her email address?"

[musesfool]

At least you have some recourse! I am mostly getting stuff from "do-not-reply" emails confirming her membership and random sales crap from online stores I mostly don't shop at (Sephora being the exception).

What I don't get is how they don't KNOW that they're not getting their email.

[bexone]

I thought of you and this Victoria Person when my rl address started getting emails from Topshop and Evans addressed to "firstname.lastname@googlemail.com." I've just been unsubscribing as they show up, but so far this fake British me hasn't used the address for anything more interesting than sales notices. I'm a little unclear on whether they're actually aware that that isn't their email address, though -- the note on the help page about how other google services *do* recognize the dots makes me think that maybe they signed up for whatever else first, and then tried to tack email onto that google account without realizing. Very sloppy of google not to close that particular loophole, though.

[musesfool]

I suppose it's possible, but yeah, that's really sloppy of google not to fix that.

[elizardbits]

Ugh, that email thing irritates me beyond words! How can someone be so idiotic as to not even know their own email address? MY 75-YEAR-OLD TECHNOPHOBE BOSS WHO CANNOT OPERATE THE UNIVERSAL REMOTE WITHOUT EXTENSIVE HAND-HOLDING KNOWS HIS OWN EMAIL ADDRESS.

In related and utterly bizarre news, I got a phone call the other day from a number I didn't know, so I let it go to voicemail. It turned out to be some guy from upstate NY leaving a quick message for his daughter, also named Liz. It was extremely surreal to listen to a message saying "Hi Liz, it's your dad, gimmie a call back when you get out of class so we can talk about mom's birthday present!" as my dad has been dead for 17 years.

[musesfool]

I don't know! You would think when she NEVER GOT ANY OF THE EMAIL or could NEVER LOG INTO THE ACCOUNT, it would be a clue!

and that's weird and kind of creepy.