Your name-what others look like

[shootingstar]

It is a strange sensation for the first time, to see on the Internet what other gals look like --who have the same name set as I. I honestly assumed my name would tend to be for people in my age bracket. The first name was fashionable for a certain era. (Last name is one of the top most ubiquitous last names worldwide (of Chinese lineage) which is common knowledge for alot of name holders.)

Am wrong. So wrong. Or these women just look a whole lot younger than their age. Well, at least they like their stuffed toys.

Still, abit freaky.

[badger]

I used to think my name was original, but then one day I was flipping through a local bookstore flier when my jaw dropped - an author by the exact same name. She's since written quite a few books and she has made it a bit difficult for me to order or reserve any books.

There's apparently someone else who goes to my GP with my same name, so when I'm calling to make an appointment I have to confirm with my birthdate and address.

[shootingstar]

I used to think my name was original, but then one day I was flipping through a local bookstore flier when my jaw dropped - an author by the exact same name. She's since written quite a few books and she has made it a bit difficult for me to order or reserve any books.

There's apparently someone else who goes to my GP with my same name, so when I'm calling to make an appointment I have to confirm with my birthdate and address.

Yea, that medical record file better be right all the time.

I'm a boring looking gal --sans cycling gear. Maybe one of the um, elders. Can't see grey-haired folks, or "honest" hair yet among those women. I love that --a cycling wise woman.

[Eden]

Apparently I'm the heroine in several popular romance novels......

holy moley - I'm romancing not only a handsome widower, but an FBI agent as well, and that's all in one book

darn, I can't seem to find the Antebellum set one right now

[Zen]

Apparently I'm the heroine in several popular romance novels......

You do get around, you hussy

[limewave]

There's a famous Tween author with the same name as me. I occasionally get fan email from young teenagers that somehow find my email from somewhere. Oye.

DH has a common name (first and last). In fact, there are several in our city (which isn't that big) that are close to the same age with the same name. One of them is on the sex offender registry, another fathered an illegitimate child, and yet another died in a car accident last year.

I got a letter in the mail a few years back from the mother of the illegitimate child. It was several pages long, a lot of pleading and begging for DH to be a part of this child's life. IT was a case of mistaken identity and definitely not my DH. That was a mess. We ended up hiring a lawyer. She did a search online for DH's name and our address came up. She assumed it had to be the same guy without looking into it any further.

THEN, when this other guy died in a car accident (same age and similar build as DH). I got three phone calls that day by friends/relatives that saw the accident on the news. Of course, I couldn't get ahold of DH as he was working on Lake Michigan and there are no cell signals. That was an anxious day!

[Roadtrip]

My other "alter ego" is a hot-shot photographer for big magazines (Harpers Bazaar, Glamour Magazine, Conde Nast Traveller, and the New York Times) so I sometimes joke that I'm a big-time photographer. I do enjoy shooting pictures and my Christmas light display, but not anything more then amateur.

I even had one Twitter user with my same name ask if they should be worried... apparently they're a UK politician or lawyer type, LOL.

Trouble is my middle name