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Apparently someone that has the same name as I do also delivers The Commercial Dispatch around here. For some reason a lot of customers have been trying to reach him today, so I’ve been taking a lot of calls for him since I got home from work.

I get calls every once in a while from people around here looking for someone with the same name. It seems like wherever I worked or been in school, there’s usually at least one other person with the same name. The former fire chief of this town has the same name as me. He was fired and convicted on embezzlement or something like that a few years ago. A lot of people call here looking for him.

A couple of years ago a representative from Spiegel with a Caribbean accent kept calling me about some bill that I hadn’t paid even though I’ve never had an acount with them. She was really aggressive and kept telling me that I really needed to just go ahead and pay the bill even though I tried to explain that I really wasn’t who they were looking for. After asking some questions, I found out that the person they were looking for was a man in his 50’s that lived in a town about 30 miles north of here.

A couple of months ago Citi Financial called me many times about a loan that I had supposedly taken out in 2002. I explained my mistaken identity problems to one representative and I told her that I don’t have an account with Citi Financial. They kept calling anyway. I got annoyed so one afternoon I decided to keep calling them until I got a person who was willing to make sure that they wouldn’t call me again. It turns out that they had mistaken me for someone who lives in Starkville, just on a street that I had never lived on.