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This person was being a bit of a penis, right?

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BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers · 14/12/2011 12:13

Two AIBUs in five minutes. Probably need to wind me neck in...

I got a christmas card this morning, not meant for us. I don't even know how it got to my house; my house number is 37, it had 68 on the envelope. Imagine I live on Dave Street, the envelope had Dave Road on it. Hmm

Opened it up without thinking, then saw it addressed to Sheila and Peter. There was a pretty lengthy message in it from Gaynor and Mike, who live in London (I live Midlands) It was quite a nice message and I thought what a shame that Sheila and Peter will miss out on the card! There was a London 'phone number at the bottom so I thought I would do a good deed and let the sender know that their card had not got to the intended recipient". Call went like this:

"Hello?"

Me: "Hello! Sorry to bother you, but am I speaking to Peter?"

Peter: "Yeah"

Me: "Oh good, I recieved a card from you this morning but it was not meant for me, it was sent to someone called Gaynor and Mike. I just wanted to let you know that it has been sent to the wrong address and that you might want to send another one."

Peter:

Merry christmas to you too, bollockchops!

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QuietNinjaMincepie · 14/12/2011 12:15
HoHoOpotomus · 14/12/2011 12:15

Ho Ho Ho - you're a right freak you are! Xmas Grin

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BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers · 14/12/2011 12:17

Well, truth be told, I did feel like I might have overstepped the mark a bit by ringing, but honestly did it in the spirit of yuletide and good deeds. I thought of a lifelong friendship being unnecessarily severed because Gaynor took umbrage at a christmas snub by Sheila and Peter.

I wanted to be the saviour of the friendship! Xmas Sad

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WhereTheWildThingsWere · 14/12/2011 12:18

Impressed by you level of helpfulness, but would it not have been easier to drop it in at the post office, thus avoiding having t speak to Peter the penis in the first place.

You could add 'the penis' next to his name before you send it on now you know though.

WhereTheWildThingsWere · 14/12/2011 12:19

Ignore missing letters, am typing one handed while eating pasta.

letmehelp · 14/12/2011 12:19

You should have phoned Mike?!

If you did, then Mike doesn't do cards and had no idea that Gaynor had sent it, or taken the trouble to write a nice note and include the phone number, or who Sheila and Peter are! He thinks you are beyond odd to care about these things.

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BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers · 14/12/2011 12:19

Nah, I've got a cold. My helpfulness can only be orchestrated from the confines of my sofa.

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knockneedandknackered · 14/12/2011 12:22

how about return to sender

MixedBerries · 14/12/2011 12:23

What an ungrateful bastard. Although, he might have thought it was some weird prank call or phishing or blagging or something. People are pretty suspicious of unsolicited calls these days and probably for good reason. Still, he could have easily found out if you were genuine!

TheFrogs · 14/12/2011 12:23

Am loving "bollockchops" Xmas Grin

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BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers · 14/12/2011 12:23

Binned it now.

Mike has burned his bridges AFAIAC.

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WeShouldOpenABar · 14/12/2011 12:23

do you live in birmingham, I think you may have spoken to my uncle!

WorraLiberty · 14/12/2011 12:24

Every single year we get a card addressed to 'Mr & Mrs XXX and Dylan'...from 'Grandad and Harry' Xmas Sad

This has gone on for about 6yrs and no-one in our street has a clue who they are. It's sent to my address but I've been here nearly 17yrs and it's not the name of the couple I bought the house from either.

Pandemoniaa · 14/12/2011 12:24

Cockjuggler.

WinterWonderlandIsComing · 14/12/2011 12:29

Cockjuggler Grin

I was just reading this and Mike the phone engineer rang me.

Perhaps it was his card. I shall ask him when he turns up.

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BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers · 14/12/2011 12:31

If any of you know a Mike, who lives in London and is married to Sheila, with a penchant for frankly HORRID christmas cards, tell him that there is a woman on the internets who is very upset with him.

Very. Upset.

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BlastOff · 14/12/2011 12:32

I got an email meant for someone else the other day. It was meant for a child's mother and was from their teacher. I have had lots emails from this school and my email address has obviously been wrongly transcribed. I have been extremely pleasant about it - of course.

Anyway on this occasion I wrote back to the teacher and explained what had happened, so she could let the mum know the message and also so she could get the proper email address for future too.

By bizarre coincidence the teachers name was the name of my good friend, and the child's name is the name of my friends husband, so it initially appeared to me my friend was emailing me about her husband having forgotten his pe kit, which I found very funny and might have mentioned in a rather chatty way

The miserable old bag teacher didn't even email a quick acknowledgment and now I feel like a bit of an oddball

Bah humbug to the lot of them Bupcakes.

MrsHankey · 14/12/2011 12:34

To state the (I think) obvious, why didn't you just put it back in envelope & back in post Xmas Confused?

Because it didn't actually have your address on it so would hopefully go to right address?

Jacksterbear · 14/12/2011 12:34

I imagine he was probably taken-aback, flustered and embarrassed, didn't know how to respond and put the phone down. Still a bit of a twattish thing to do though.

(Also loving "bollockchops").

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BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers · 14/12/2011 12:35

That's how I feel, BlastOff. Like a loon. Mike has made me feel like this and the problem is all his, really. He has never been fed the milk of human kindness, obviously, and he knows not how to deal with it. It's definitely not because I am overbearing/weird.

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Oggy · 14/12/2011 12:35

I would have stuck it through the letter box of 68 myself rather than call, but he was a misery guts to just hang up on you like that!

Jacksterbear · 14/12/2011 12:36

But oggy it was a different street name too.

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BaublesandCuntingCarolSingers · 14/12/2011 12:36

I didn't put it back in the envelope and post it for two reasons:

  1. Got a cold. Not going out.
  2. There is NO Dave Road where I live. I have no idea where it was supposed to go to. Presumably neither did the postman so he just took pot luck. Maybe he has seen me out and about and decided I looked like a Gaynor Xmas Grin
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Oggy · 14/12/2011 12:38

I would have just assumed that they meant Street and put Road by mistake - op said they put Dave Street and she is on Dave Road.

Either way OP went above and beyond and Mike was a misery guts

Pandemoniaa · 14/12/2011 12:40

DP once created an email address for the purpose of writing sardonic comments on a local newspaper forum - I won't give full details but he used the name [email protected].

For years afterwards we'd get a cheery Christmas email addressed to "Jack and Betty Hughes" from friends of (clearly a genuine) Jack Hughes. This contained all the details of the year's doings and would ask quite specific questions about the health and welfare of "Jack and Betty".

I started by simply returning the email saying they'd got the wrong email address but this was ignored and when Christmas came around again, we'd get another. After three years of returning emails I finally got a reply from the sender. At last, I thought! The penny has dropped. But no, it was a snotty little communication that told me that I was reading someone else's private correspondence and could I please desist because hacking email accounts was illegal.

There's certainly some chumps around at Christmas aren't there?