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Post by Miss Ang on Jul 10, 2024 3:44:41 GMT
My name is a pretty common last name; it's a color.
In my job I have about 100 clients at a time that I'm working with; some go and more fill in that space, etc. At this time I have 96 active clients and 4 of them have the same last name as I do. An even bigger coincidence is that one of them has the same first AND last name as mine.
It's so bizarre.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jul 10, 2024 6:07:29 GMT
My job is a pretty common last name; it's a color. In my job I have about 100 clients at a time that I'm working with; some go and more fill in that space, etc. At this time I have 96 active clients and 4 of them have the same last name as I do. An even bigger coincidence is that one of them has the same first AND last name as mine. It's so bizarre. Your job is a colour? I can't even think of a colour that is also a job. My favourite coincidence is that one of our patients has the same first and last name (not middle) AND the same day and month of birth (not year) as my brother. Not a relative and they're 2.5 hours apart. I nearly fell off my chair when he said it. |
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Post by lesley on Jul 10, 2024 8:26:42 GMT
I know I’ve mentioned this before but my favourite coincidence is when my DS was at the doctor's surgery and met someone whose name was the reverse of his - think Elliot Russell and Russell Elliot. Their birthdays were on the same day but DS was born in 1997 and the other guy was 1979. 😊 They found out when the doctor called for Russell Elliot. DS is used to people getting his name the wrong way around, and they both stood up. 😄
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Post by quiltz on Jul 10, 2024 15:23:55 GMT
When I was a bank teller, there was a supervisor that used a short form of a formal name (eg Kathryn) which was the same as my formal first name, Kathy. Her husband and mine had the exact first name. Also, our initials were quite similar. We also had the same last name but no relation to each other.
Caused some confusion but management insisted that she use her formal name rather than nickname as I couldn't change my formal name.
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Post by quiltz on Jul 10, 2024 15:25:27 GMT
My job is a pretty common last name; it's a color. Your job or your last name is the name of a colour? |
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Post by Zee on Jul 10, 2024 15:45:45 GMT
Wut...
Are you saying that AT your job, you have 4 people with the same common last name that's also a color?
That sounds more like the law of averages, not an astounding coincidence. We had 3 Smiths out of 48 employees. Same idea.
And I can't think of any job that is also a color so I'm going with my first theory.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 10, 2024 16:16:46 GMT
My DS and my birth dates are opposite..well sort of.
Like I am....4/5/1971
And his was 5/4/1991
I have mixed them up on more then one occasion.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Jul 10, 2024 17:30:29 GMT
When I worked in a large regional bank, people would get so frustrated when we would ask for their phone number to look them up (this was in 2004-2005 before we used our phone numbers every where). The reason was simple: in 90% of cases, we got too many results when searching by name. When searching by phone number, we only got a handful of results, at most.
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Post by rymeswithpurple on Jul 10, 2024 17:37:41 GMT
The first time I went to a car place near us for an oil change, the guy asked if I'd ever been there before. I let him know he very graciously had helped me put air in my tires once, but I'd never been there for any sort of services. He said he had a few others with my last name in his system, and one happened to be waiting for her car as well. No relation, just a happy coincidence.
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Post by milocat on Jul 10, 2024 17:37:59 GMT
Are you saying that AT your job, you have 4 people with the same common last name that's also a color? That's what I assumed. Her last name is Green, Brown, Black or White. I'm the opposite, no one I'm not related to has my last name. If I'm already in the system and someone asks me to spell my name I just give them the first 2 letters of my last name and it pops up. |
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Post by Zee on Jul 10, 2024 17:42:40 GMT
Are you saying that AT your job, you have 4 people with the same common last name that's also a color? That's what I assumed. Her last name is Green, Brown, Black or White. I'm the opposite, no one I'm not related to has my last name. If I'm already in the system and someone asks me to spell my name I just give them the first 2 letters of my last name and it pops up. Me too, though I have to give them 3 or 4 letters. There are hundreds and hundreds of us in the email system but I'm the only one with my name. |
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Post by jackietex on Jul 11, 2024 3:19:55 GMT
Two of the last three times I have seen my sister was running into her at a doctor's office (two different ones) unplanned. I live about 40 minutes from my sister, and 30 minutes from both of the medical offices.
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Post by librarylady on Jul 11, 2024 14:14:13 GMT
Once I had 2 students whose names were identical. When I got the enrollment cards, I thought one card was a duplicate--until I noticed the birthdays were not the same. I had one use her middle name to stop confusion. -Roughly 100 students in 5th grade that year and what are the odds that 2 had same name and landed in the same home room?
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Post by Miss Ang on Jul 12, 2024 1:12:21 GMT
My job is a pretty common last name; it's a color. In my job I have about 100 clients at a time that I'm working with; some go and more fill in that space, etc. At this time I have 96 active clients and 4 of them have the same last name as I do. An even bigger coincidence is that one of them has the same first AND last name as mine. It's so bizarre. Your job is a colour? I can't even think of a colour that is also a job. My favourite coincidence is that one of our patients has the same first and last name (not middle) AND the same day and month of birth (not year) as my brother. Not a relative and they're 2.5 hours apart. I nearly fell off my chair when he said it. Oops!!! Typo.  My NAME is a pretty common last name. I corrected it. |
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Post by Miss Ang on Jul 12, 2024 1:18:52 GMT
Two of the last three times I have seen my sister was running into her at a doctor's office (two different ones) unplanned. I live about 40 minutes from my sister, and 30 minutes from both of the medical offices. That's crazy!  What are the odds? |
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My NAME is a pretty common last name. 
What are the odds?