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[threemonkeys]

I just got an email from somebody with the same name as me (first name and last name). What an odd feeling. I guess if you have a commonly occurring name then such things happen from time to time, but this is a first for me. There are a few of us around the globe. The temptation to do a vanity search means that it isn't a surprise that my name isn't unique but I have never been in contact with any of them before. I guess he googled his own name and found mine. I appear to be the most frequent hit for this particular search, but if you go down a couple of pages you get an awful lot of hits for a Baptist church in Macon Georgia. Now that, I have to tell you, is an even stranger feeling.

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[lobelet.livejournal.com]

I recently called in an electrician to do various bits of this and that. Eventually he sent me a bill, which I paid. However there was a second bill included in the envelope which I didn't pay because it itemised work which I did not recognise.

"Why have you sent me this bill?" I asked.

"Ah," they said. "Sorry about that -- we do work for two people called Alan Robson. There's you, and another one in Johnsonvile, and our accounting system can't tell you apart."

Hmmm. I wonder if the other one has ever had any of my bills? There was a mysterious circumstance a while back where the bill didn't arrive until nearly eight months after the work was done. They claimed it had fallen down behind a desk drawer and never got posted out and they only found it when they scrapped the desk. But now I wonder...

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

I can see some potential advantage to this in terms of deferring payments. Until the other Alan Robson does something bad of course. If he fails to pay his bills then your credit rating takes a plunge.