#6 Postby Miss Mary » Wed Jan 14, 2004 2:06 pm
Kathy - wow, guess you need to lay real low for a while. And ditto on keeping your ID handy. That would make me nervous too!
We have a rather uncommon last name. My husband didn't know many of his cousins growing up, in fact his dad's family had some sort of falling out. They all drifted apart. About 12 years ago someone tried stealing my car's side view mirror. I came out to the store's parking lot to see the damage, so the store called the police for me. When the officer arrived, he asked all the pertinent questions. Name, address, spouse's address. When I said Jim's name, he said no lady, what is your husband's name....I said it again, and he tapped his badge with his pen. Gave me this smirk. Yes, you guessed it, he was Jim's distant cousin, same exact name. Creepy! I had virtually no knowledge of aunts/uncles name, never met any of them and he was questioning me if I knew so and so. I tried to be nice, b/c well he was a cop. And family! Wait it gets better (or sadder, later I'll explain why). Turns out he and his wife lived in our community, we have used the same pharmacy for years. We'd get calls all the time for their Rx's. Your antibiotic Rx is ready.....we'd shake our heads then realize oh wait, they want the other Jim B.! His wife's name is Marilyn....that's close to Mary. We got an invite to a family reunion once, meant to go to their address. Jim said we should have just crashed that party. But I was nice and mailed it to them, with a note attached - sorry, this came to us by mistake! There's more and this part is very sad......a relative of Jim's died, his mom's side. After the funeral and the burial, we were all walking around the cemetery, to see other relatives' graves and we stumble upon his cousin's, with the same name, tombstome. You see he died young, age 41 of sudden heart attack. We knew about it, people had called us since the newspaper obit said Jim's name. Let's just say Jim had shivers seeing that tombstone. Then everyone got quiet b/c this was a family member, even if distant. We still get calls for his wife, prescriptions, business calls. I finally kept their # handy, to call them if I ever got mail again or calls.
So that's my story. I don't have anyone with my name.
Mary
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(and it's not a common name). She keeps getting arrested! 
Yesterday was her latest escapade! Battery on a police officer and misrepresentation during booking. 
She's been arrested in the past for spousal abuse.
