Oh So Boring…

This post is part warning about the perils of autocomplete with Gmail and part a whine fest for ol’ Matt. Thus comes the Cut!

Last night after getting home from seeing Zombieland with a friend (so fun, go see it now!), I check my email and see a message from someone I never expected to hear from again. Why? Well, she was the most recent of women from whom I received The Look. Thus, getting that message was surprising.

So, I start reading it and it’s like I’m in the middle of a conversation. Eventually, I realize that I wasn’t the “Matt” she’d meant to write. How did I realize that? Well, she talked about a “fat bore” she went out with a while back and how “at least I got a free meal out of it. ha ha.”

A-Yup. That’s me!

I sent her a note saying she had the wrong Matt (and how!). My only guess as to why she’d sent this to me-Matt and not real-recipient-Matt is that she’s using Gmail and so she started typing in “Matt” in the To: field and the autocomplete picked me first due to our previously having emailed each other. I know I’ve done that (though the message was a “Look at this link” sort of email).

You know, it kinda hurt last night getting that. Hearing someone’s unvarnished truth about yourself usually does. But, this morning, I’m more laughing about it. If nothing else, I can hope she’s learned the lesson of making sure autocomplete is giving you what you want. Hee.

ETA: In case you’re thinking it, it really is me she was talking about. She mentioned both the restaurant for the “free dinner” and the general date of the date as well. I’m pretty damn certain it’s me she is referring to.