So Apparently Uncle Chubby Died...whoever he is

[amycooper]

Back in the day, I knew someone that had a gmail account back when it was first coming out and was only in Beta stage.  At the time, you can only get a gmail account if you knew someone else who had a gmail account and they invited you.  So I got an account before most people.  The up side of this is that I was able to get a gmail account with my actual RL name.  

There's a downside to this.  While my name isn't super common, it's common enough that there are many other people with the same name out there.  And there email addresses are sometimes close to mine...close enough that I've gotten professional family pictures from Georgia, bank statements from Ontario, and iphone purchase receipts from how knows where. It's creepy.  I always email back that they have the wrong address and sometimes I get an "oops!" type response, sometimes silence.

I also get emails from Elaina.  They aren't many in number-maybe a couple a year-but Elaina seems incapable of understanding that I'm not her daughter.  I've gotten emails about dresses for wedding and various odds and ends, to which I have replied that I'm not the person she's trying to reach.  She'll sometimes hit reply and email me a follow up, totally disregarding my email.  It's not that bad; she doesn't email often and up until recently not about anything important.

This week she emailed me to tell me Uncle Chubby died with details about his cremation and some ballpark ideas for his funeral (it wasn't set yet).

Yeah.  

So I emailed back voicing my condolences and trying to stress that she has the wrong email address.  

To which she replied: "Not saying you have to go just informing."

Oh boy.

My husband says I shouldn't feel guilty; that clearly she's an idiot and I should just block her.  It might come down to that.  But I also don't want some woman in Minnesota (at least that's where Uncle Chubby's being buried) to miss her uncle's funeral.  Nor do I want to start some sort of big family fight.  I mean, it's not my fault, but I still feel like in a way it kind of is even though it isn't?

Comments

[petzipellepingo]

That's just weird, especially Elaina not taking the hint.

[amycooper]

In her last email she cc'ed someone else, so I decided to maybe try emailing them (given the context, I assumed they were related). And she was related! She was her daughter, specifically. She told me she'd sort it out.

After that, I decided to block Elaina. Looking it up, this has been going on since 2015 and I've really done all I can. Hopefully her daughter (or daughters) will sort it out and if not, I'm going to not worry about it anymore.

But yeah, it was weird.

[superbadgirl]

How annoying.

And while he does seem the type to be buried there, the proper spelling is Minnesota. *cough*

[amycooper]

Oops! Thanks.

[readerjane]

I feel bad for that woman's daughter. Not your fault at all, but if she doesn't listen when you tell her she has a "wrong number", she probably doesn't listen to her actual daughter either.

[amycooper]

Yeah, that's what I was figuring.

Her other daughter told me she'd take care of it (I emailed her, she was cc'ed) so it's out of my hands now. Thankfully.

[libwitch]

Well, no its not your fault, but...dang. Lady. *read the email* you are being sent.

My husband gets a lot of phone calls that are not for him -- I suspect they are all from one family and the family is, uh, very drama prone. As far as we can tell, someone in the family is in prison. And when he tries to tell them (either on the phone or via text) that he is not who they want, he has been accused of lying, cheating on ..someone?, hiding, etc. I have even answered the phone FOR HIM and have gotten an earful. Its amazing what people refuse to believe.

[amycooper]

Oh, that's no fun. I've gotten that too actually. A guy would call my voicemail and just unload at "Tina" who was apparently attached to his disowned (there were multiple disownings) son. Thankfully he stopped after I threatened to call the police.