Writing to the wrong person
By Porcospino
@Porcospino (31366)
Denmark
July 27, 2010 6:22am CST
Some years ago my mother and my uncle were organizing a surprise party for my great-grandfather. They wanted to invite some of his old friends, but they couldn't ask him for they addresses or the phone numbers, so they tried to find them online instead.
When they had sent out the cards a woman called and she said: "Thanks for the invitation, but I have no idea who Georg (the name of my great-grandfather) is, and I don't understand why you have invited me to the party" My mother and my uncle had invited the wrong person! We laughed a lot when we discovered the truth, and the woman also found it pretty amusing.
Have you ever made a similar mistake? For instanse by writing to the wrong person when you were trying to find people for a surprise party or when you were trying to find an old friend online? How would you react if you made that kind of mistake? Would you find it funny or embarrassing?
4 responses
@rockydam83 (846)
• Italy
29 Jul 10
I am also a victim of the same situation. It happens with me as that a girl started calling me on my cell phone and said that she wants to be my friend first i was amazed why a girl is doing so but i said OK i am ready. then she was talking to me on cell phone and it continued upto 10 months. In between many times i asked her to meet me in real but she refused and insisted to keep our friendship(which quite turned into a love story) on phone. Then after about 10 months of this relation she told me that i am getting married after 10 days I said no i am not getting married but she insisted that she have very reliable sources about me then she started discussing mu whole family relations with me and i discovered that she was talking to a wrong guy. Her whole information was about my one cousin and she was thinking that i am the guy. I clearly told her that i am not the guy you are discussing about and he is my cousin. She suddenly cut off the call and later called me and said i am sorry for all this and she is not interested in me. After that she never contacted me again and i still feel so love for her coz she developed that love in my heart and then she left.
She also got the wrong guy and i become a heart broken sad victim.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
29 Jul 10
That is a sad story, and I can understand your feelings when she suddenly broke off the contact with after 10 months, I would also have been heartbroken. So all this time she thought that you were your cousin? If she had agreed to meet you, you would probably have discovered the misunderstanding sooner, but when she didn't want to meet you that wasn't option.
@krnavtr (285)
• India
29 Jul 10
I had a similar story happen not to me but to my friend.Once there was 2 girl with a same name in the same class.One guy loved that girl and he sent message through his friend.He told to another girl and got reply too.They made appointment to meet during lunch break near class room.He was waiting there for a long time and suddenly another girl came saying hi and sat near him.He told why you are here,and she answered we had made appointment and don't you remember that.Boy told appointment!whats that,who made.Hope you got confused.The girl was angry and showed all the letters and appointment made. He told without shy,actually you are not the one that i love,i love another girl having same name as you.i am sorry.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
29 Jul 10
I can easily imagine the girl's reaction when she discovered that the letters weren't for her. It must have been a disappointment for her if she liked the boy, but when both girls have the same names, misunderstanding like that can happen. When I was in high school there were two boys who had exactly the same names, it happens pretty often that two students have to same first names, but in this case both the first names and the last names were alike, and that sometimes lead to some misunderstandings.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
27 Jul 10
We also found it pretty funny. My mother and my uncle were sure that they had found the right person, because her name was the same as my great-grandfather's friend, and she even lived in the same part of the country. But the problem that the last name was pretty common, so there were more than one person with the same name.
@jobinjose (14)
• India
27 Jul 10
i hav similar expirience but not in inviting anyone... but chating with a person....i hav 2 friends having the same name jobin... once one of the came online and and istarted chatting with him thinking that he was the 2nd 'jobin'. but really he was the other one. only after a few converstion i realised that i was chatting with the 2nd one and somehow i managed thesituation by joking... :)
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
27 Jul 10
When they both have the same name it is understandable that you could make that mistake. I would probably have tried to manage the situation the same way you did (by joking) I once found a person on my chat list that I didn't recognize at all. We started chatting and neither of us were able to figure out how we knew eachother. Later I discovered that it was a person that my friend had added, and that is why we didn't recognize eachother 
