I have an email address along the lines of FelicityJSmith@gmail.com. It’s not the most common name in the world, but there are evidently others: I’ve had a job interview offer from the FBI, a message from the RSPCA about the dog I want to adopt, and various similar things in the past. If it looks important, I reply and explain. There’s also an elderly lady who emails me whenever she won’t be in for her regular weekly phone call and will not be told that she has the wrong email address.

In what might be the oddest yet, today I’ve had an email from a German chap that was sent to an hotel in Czechia asking for a room price. Checking the headers, it’s been redirected from the address he sent it to to felicity.j.smith@gmail.com (a punctuation format I never use but often see in these types of messages) so presumably my namesake works there now….

Can I be bothered trying to find an alternate contact email for the hotel to let them know? Probably not. I guess I’ll reply to the German chap and let him know his message probably hasn’t gone through.