Wednesday, July 30, 2008

I am my own twin

Have you see this show on Discovery Health? It's one of those shows that sounds intriguing from the name, but then when you actually watch it, it's a little disturbing how someone could have their twin growing inside of them (says the very big pregnant lady) :-). Anyway, an ongoing issue I've had made me think of this.

Apparently, there is someone else with my exact name living in my city. It started with someone I met at church telling me they know this person. Then whenever I go to the vet and I tell them my name, I get asked "Are you the EssBee with Kenneth or Robert?". The other EssBee uses my vet. From time to time I get a phone call of someone looking for the other EssBee. And then yesterday...

I got a message from my dentist's office. "Please call us back right away" they said. I figured it was a problem with my insurance since I recently had a cleaning and the last time I was there, they had the wrong ID number for my insurance so it got denied. "I thought I already fixed this" I said to myself as I dutifully dialed back the lady at the dentist. When I got her on the phone, she said "EssBee, you left your wallet here." "What?!" I said. "Yes, when you were here yesterday, you left your wallet behind". And that's when it clicked. "Oh, you must mean the other EssBee. There's two of us in this town, you know. And not to be impolite, but I think she's a good bit older than me - I'm in my 30s." The lady on the other end laughed and said "Well you must be right because this woman is definitely not in her 30s".

So in light of this most recent episode, I think that maybe I need to meet this woman. Or call her. Find out what she looks like. I'm interested to know who is going around town using my name...living their life as EssBee.

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