Julia wrote:
> Gee, and I thought it was irritating that we were getting credit
card
> offers for Velma J. Thompson for awhile there.  When I looked her up
in
> the phone book, she was listed at the same apartment complex Dan was
> living in for 19 months, and I was living in for the last 5 of those
> (having married Dan 14 months into his residence there).  You beat
> anything I could come up with hands down.
>
> Of course, it's possible that my brother-in-law can come up with
> something good -- he's the 4th in a line of males with the same
name,
> bought the house from my parents-in-law when they moved, and may
have
> just assumed payment on some of the accounts for utilities, etc. and
not
> bothered to change the name.  I don't know, though.

So, Melissa and I had bought our first house in Austin, and we'd been
living there for about 3 months, and we noticed that some of Melissa's
mail wasn't getting to her.  My mail all came through fine, but
Melissa's was running about 50/50.  One day, as Melissa and I were
working in the garden, a young woman walked up to Melissa and asked if
she was Melissa G. Lipscomb.  Turns out that this woman was also named
Melissa G. Lipscomb, and that she'd been getting our mail.  It took
about 3 months of arguing with the Post Office to get all the mail
straightened out, and every couple of years, we get a flurry of calls
and letters for this other Melissa G. Lipscomb, who is apparently very
careless with her credit and has bounced more than a few checks around
town.

Adam C. Lipscomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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