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Every by complete chance run into someone with your exact same name?
Last week we were at the checkout at Trader Joes. The guy swipes my credit card, and is looking at his display. He says my name in a low tone a couple times, then looks up at me and says "Hey, my name is Richard Barnett, too!". Its a fairly uncommon name, so we were both kinda stunned. Well, he seemed completely stunned. Kind of a weird feeling! I don't know how many of us there are in the country, but I would guess not more than a hundred or so.
Anyone had something similar happen to them?
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12-20-2012, 04:09 PM
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Sure, but my name is not uncommon. There's even the famous singer/guitarist. There was a guy a couple grades under me in HS that has the same name. We reconnected on FB. I have fun with his posts from time to time and have confused his friends. I still plan on borrowing his FB profile pic one day and really have some fun.
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12-20-2012, 04:13 PM
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Not often for me because i have a slightly unusual ethnic-based name. My name in real life is Barack Obama. I haven't run into another one yet. I can imagine what a surprise it would be to find someone else with your name. I'll have to post if it does happen to me.
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12-20-2012, 04:15 PM
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Kairos Trekkor Wills?!?
Yeah, me too!  Happens all the time. KT
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12-20-2012, 04:20 PM
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Another Doc in town (different speciality) shares my name, just a different middle initial.
Unfortunately, my middle initial precedes his alphabetically, so when in doubt addressing professional correspondence people seem to default to me. I get alot of his mail.
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12-20-2012, 04:27 PM
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There is another Soldier in the Army with my first/last name....and we're in the same command.
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12-20-2012, 04:27 PM
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I used to think I had a pretty uncommon last name and the odds of a first name matching up pretty slim. The last name isn't uncommon in this area however as my ancestors have been here several hundred years. For a long time I knew there were at least a couple of me(s). With the internet however, I've discovered there are a WHOLE bunch of me
 Never met one though...
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12-20-2012, 04:30 PM
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I don't know what my biological first name would have been, but the last name is very unique. There is only one family in the US with it. I suppose I could have shared a name with a family member.
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12-20-2012, 04:32 PM
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I google my name and when I find other people with the same name! I just add their job to my resume.
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12-20-2012, 04:32 PM
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According to facebook there are at least 8 of me. It made me wish I had used my full name instead.
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12-20-2012, 04:38 PM
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I am the only person named Lane Weinberg in all of Nike-
my father is named Lane Weinberg too have not meet another Lane Weinberg, but have met 5 people named Lane- not layn, lane-
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12-20-2012, 04:41 PM
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No, and I never will, no matter how many people I meet.
I am the only me in the entire world. All alone. 
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That would require finding a sane, worthy enough woman. Apparently, not in my cards
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12-20-2012, 04:53 PM
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My name, no chance, but I had a customer with a strange experience. I posted about it a while ago.
A freaky car purchase story.
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What, DIKCHEAD?
Yeah, happens all the time 
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12-20-2012, 04:56 PM
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Ordered a pizza one time and the young lady behind the counter asked my name and
When I told her she said that can't be your name I married him and you don't look Like him. |
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12-20-2012, 05:02 PM
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it's when they share a SSN# and FICO score you should be worried.
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12-20-2012, 05:11 PM
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Nope. I don't think there's anyone on the planet who had my name other than me. My dad's name was the same except for our middle names, but now that he's gone, I'm it.
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12-20-2012, 05:15 PM
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No, but at my former employer there was a guy with my name in reverse. Used to get his emails all the time.
Really thru me when I got one of his from HR explaining what was going to happen since he'd been laid off. I really let the HR person know that 'Attention to detail' should be part of her job as it caused all kinds of angst when it came to me. 'Course it didn't matter 'cause 6 months later I ended up being laid off too. Go figure.
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