For those of you who dont believe that truth is stranger than fiction...

The other night I complained loudly to myself as my phone alerted me of an incoming email at 3:09am. "Hey Laura" it said, "We've got exciting news: Your $20 Amazon.com Gift Card* is ready to be used!". Go away SPAM, I thought. Get yourself out of my inbox and into my junk folder where you belong. Quit bugging me with your tomfoolery, I am trying to sleep. I made a promise to myself that first thing in the morning I would unsubscribe to whatever I had acidently signed myself up for, and be done with it.

You can imagine how annoyed I felt then when I woke up only to find two more emails from the same company (Livingsocial.com) telling me about more great stuff that I had signed up for that was now ready. What the heck? I went down to the bottom of the email, clicked the unsubscribe link, and was redirected to some other page that asked me for my city, email address, the name I had planned for my first born and other rather personal information. Yeah, that seems like stuff that I should give out if I dont want more SPAM sent to me- so I closed the window, alerted Gmail of the SPAM that somehow snuck its way into my inbox, and left the computer feeling rather proud of myself. Take that SPAM, my superior human brain outsmarted you!

Fast forward to that evening when I am on the computer getting ready to register as a student at the University of Athabasca- and my phone goes off, once again alerting me that I have an email. I glanced over at it quickly and noticed that the email was from "Laura Hasiuk". OK. WHAT. THE. HECK?!.  Not only did I not send myself an email, but the subject of the email was "One-day deal", something that sounded suspiciously like the other stupid emails I had been getting from Livingsocial.com. First SPAM. Now SPAM trying to steal my identity...

Frustrated, I opened my gmail account on the computer and found this (and this is where it gets just plain weird:

Laura,

I think that I accidentally had a Philly One Day Deal for an Amazon.com gift card sent to your email by mistake.  If you received this, would you be able to forward it to me?  So sorry for the confusion.

Thank you!!

- Laura Hasiuk

 Now, there are two really weird things about this email.
1. There is another Laura Hasiuk out there, which I find odd because Hasiuk isnt that common of a last name (or so I thought?!).
2. This Laura Hasiuk is living in PHILLY which is where Charles currently is!!

What are the odds? Seriously? I quickly fired off an email to my doppelganger (I love this word. Check out the definition here: Wikipedia We Love You!).

Laura,

I was wondering why I was getting that stuff sent to my account- I was getting so mad because they kept sending me emails at 3am! Odd that you are in Philly...my boyfriend is currently out there. Weird/creepy that we have the same name and you are in Philly (stay away from my boyfriend! haha j/k). Will check my trash for that coupon.

Laura

Swear on my scuba diving text book that I am not making this one up. Here is a screen shot of my double (from my email account) as proof:

The first "Laura Hasiuk" is me (the one with the red dot beside my name". The other one is my double.

 Honestly, I thought stuff like this would only happen in Fredericton.