nice shooting

So for an hour or so this afternoon/evening my life turned into a wacky, madcap sitcom. My pal Andy and I were IMing and throwing personal ad links back and forth. I decided to send a message to a person who'd made contact with me through the personals site. I wrote a quick message, double-checked to see that everything looked good, and sent it. A moment later, Andy messaged me to tell me he had gotten a message from someone on the site, coincidentally named Anne. But no. Turns out, that message was a confirmation of the email I had sent, somehow logged in as him. I looked back, and sure enough, I was logged in as Andy! We both freaked out a little bit and then saw the utter hilarity in the situation. I dashed off an apology message, clarifying that I am indeed myself, not Andy. I can only wonder what the recipient of these messages is going to think.

I logged out and logged in as myself, and went to send a message to another person on my list of people who've expressed interest. I quadruple-checked the headers of this one to make sure it was coming from me, and everything was kosher, until the confirmation of message sent screen came up and Andy's screenname was there, indicating I was logged in as him. AGAIN! I couldn't believe it. I then cleared the cache and restarted the browser. I sent another apology/explanation email and just about died laughing that this could've happened twice in a row.

Needless to say, Andy and I have decided that we won't send links while we're logged in anymore. I guess this will be a good test of the recipients' sense of humor. Andy and I think that this may just be the newest trend in online dating - a wacky, sitcom-worthy mix-up to break the ice. Of course, the recipients of my messages may decide that I'm too ditsy to be worth their time. Hopefully not.

This all just seems to me like something that would have happened to Ross about halfway through the run of Friends.