I Am Not Nelson!
Posted in General by CujoNovember 26th, 2005 - 12:26 AM
Okay, I’ve been having this general problem on and off for probably over a year now but haven’t had anything happen like it for a bit until tonight. Basically someone added me to their MSN Messenger list and most times I usually deny and block but this time for some strange reason I hit OK. And what happens “Hey Nelson how you doing”.
WHAT THE FUCK? That’s right, this doesn’t deserve a WTF, but an actual WHAT THE FUCK?.
How people think my email that I have is some Nelson kid is beyond me. This person then told me (after I told them I wasn’t Nelson) that I, yes ME, should change MY email because people will think I’M Nelson.
SAY WHAT?
I’ve had this account (that messenger is on) BEFORE Hotmail was purchased by Microsoft. What? Hotmail wasn’t always owned by Microsoft? No, it wasn’t. And this email dates back to then. That brings it to mid/late 90s. This Nelson kid’s friends seem young and dumb. I’m not giving them anything over the 13-15 year old range so that puts them at being 5-7 if I got my email in 97 (which is a guess). So if some kid got at that age had an email account and was active online back then as well that’s pretty freaking crazy. When I was 5-7 I think I was busy reading Curious George and playing outside. And in 97 I still wasn’t hardcore into the net either, not many people were, it was just starting to take off.
Anyway, I’M NOT NELSON. So if you’re one of Nelson’s friends figure it out already. If you’re confused by all this. I am too.
That’s my rant. I’m cranky.
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November 26th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
What? What do you mean you’re not Nelson? Of you’re course you’re Nelson! Look in the mirror, silly.
(hope you’re also not still cranky…)
November 26th, 2005 at 8:50 pm
How can I put this politely….. Oh, crap… I guess I can’t. I mean… somebody was going to do it… might as well be me.
HAAA-HA!!
November 27th, 2005 at 8:38 pm
LOL, that sucks….Mr. Nelson
I’ve never seemed to have this problem, I generally have 2 usernames for every IM and email service that I sign up for.
1 for public use and 1 for private use.
November 28th, 2005 at 8:43 am
If it makes you feel any better, I also have a name that belongs to someone else. There are no Safeway grocery stores in Sault Ste Marie, but it is a big chain in the west and central Canada. In order to get discounts, you need to have a Safeway Card. You do not need to have the card with you in order to get the discount — you can simply recite your phone number. When we moved here a year ago, my husband, knowing how hopeless I am with numbers, and also knowing that I’ve moved so many times in my life that when it comes time to memorizing even my own phone number my brain rebels, would not let me carry the card (big meanie!), thus forcing me to remember my new phone number. Oddly, every time I give out my number in lieu of using the card, I get a “Thank you Mrs. Gerardi. My other name is Chantal Gerardi — it even prints out on the receipt. As far as mistaken identities go, I don’t mind it. It is a lovely wrong name. I even begun answering to it — though only at Safeway.
November 28th, 2005 at 12:32 pm
Yeah. The phone number problem I can see happening with the telco’s simply reissuing numbers. My concern is this email thing. Emails don’t get reissued if you’ve never let them go. And then the “kids” having the nerve to tell me to get a new one, that’s the part that pissed me off.
Bahwell. Moving on.
I only wish I was Nelson from the Simpsons HAHA.
November 28th, 2005 at 12:54 pm
Ive had the same problem with people from England. Atleast ten people from England have added me to their MSN list on the pretext that my name is Teddy!!!!
November 28th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Teddy…Nelson…nice to meet you.
Chantal
November 30th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Hunh, maybe I should try to find an email that would allow me to get unsolicited MSN additions….the list is a little bare these days….
As a second thought, maybe you should tell the nexto ne that thinks your this Nelson character that they better tell him the next time they see him that you want that $50 he owes you and you better see it soon….