This is the one about my fishing trip.

Posted February 28th, 2010 by Mike Lawson

My name is common.  I’m no John Smith, but there has to be quite a few Mike Lawsons out there.

My email address is just my name @gmail.com.  And about once a month I get emails from people that are trying to write to a different Mike Lawson – probably one that is MikeLawson12@gmail.com, or MikeJLawson@gmail.com or MichaelLawson@gmail.com.  And for whatever reason the email author just types is regular old “MikeLawson” and sends the email to me.

In the begining I just started ignoring the emails.  Then about a year ago I got a different Mike Lawson’s tax returns emailed to me from what I guess was a family member that did his taxes.  And I politely emailed back and said “you got the wrong email address.”

And now I’ve started to play around a little with the emails.  Reccently I got this email:

I quickly hit the “REPLY TO ALL” button and typed out the following message:

Who are you people??  I’m not paying a penny for some stupid fishing trip.

And then one of the recipients replied, but only sent the reply to me:

When I realized that nobody got this reply except for me, I sent this message:

You only sent this message to me…Duh!  If you want Ron to respond you should email him too.

Who are you people?

Eventually Ron Hall figured out that he got the wrong Mike Lawson’s email address and sent me this email: