As some of you know, I’m a Netflix Subscriber. Recently I’ve gotten addicted to the 24 series, ordering entire seasons at once. Right now I’m in the middle of season two. Since I only get 3 movies at a time, I’ve been sending the last disc of 24 back as soon as I watch it, so I can keep a constant flow of this series coming in my mailbox.
When I see that red Netflix envelope in the mailbox, I never actually LOOK at my name and address on it, I just bring it in and open it to see what I got. From now on I’ll need to look because yesterday I got two Netflix envelopes in the mail, which would have meant I had 4 at a time instead of three. I instantly thought, “They messed up, I’ve got two in the house right now.” But I brought them in and opened them both anyway. The first one I opened was Season 2, Disc 3 of my new addiction, 24. (Enough numbers?). The second one I opened was Season 1, Disc 2….
Wait A Minute! WHY did they send me this? I watched season 1, disc 2, a month ago and sent it back the next day! WHY are they sending me this again? GRRRRR…. I finally had the sense to look on the envelope. It was addressed to Melody….. not me though, Melody Jinks. Address? Not mine. That mail-lady was so used to delivering the red envelopes to me she didn’t look very well either, I guess.
I looked up the address on MapQuest. Just five streets down from me. No wonder my mail lady had it. But SO ODD to me was that the girl had my first name, and was beginning the same series that I’m watching.
I was going to just put the dvd in the return envelope and mail it back since I had already opened it, then I thought how pissed off the girl would be to find it removed from her Netflix queue when she never received it… and besides that, if I sent it back then they would send her disc 3 and she might watch it without looking at the title, and miss all of disc 2, and not get it, and I just couldn’t stand the thought of that! So I got in my car this morning, drove down the street and found her house. She was outside on her porch, waiting on the mail delivery. I waved to her with the Netflix envelope in hand, and she came to the car smiling as if she knew without explanation what happened. I said, “They delivered this to my house by mistake, I live down the street, My name is Melody too, Sorry I opened it. ” She said that was ok, thanked me for bringing it, and said she was waiting on it to arrive as I drove up. I told her it was a great show and that I was in the middle of season 2. We had a good laugh and back home I went.
Isn’t that just crazy though?
What would be stranger is if her middle name were Starr
Not supposed to tell my middle name, since you once commented that it was a stripper’s name, lmao
LOL It is- perfect for a stripper! Ladies and Gentleman, we’re proud to have with us tonight, from the great state of Arkansas- MELODY STARR!
ROTFL! Ok from DVD’s to Mel’s stripper name, interesting thread…
GRRRRR
Diane was never supposed to mention that, especially not in a BLOG FOR ALL TO SEE. Now I’m forced to tell the true story of why my father named me this. This could be a post all in it’s own, it’s going to take so long.
My dad used to be a country singer/songwriter. He sang in nightclubs all over the place for the love of it, but he wrote songs to make a living. He sold them in bulk to recording companies. I don’t know if they still do it like this, by the way, buying songs and all rights in bulk from one songwriter, this was… well… 39 years ago.
My fathers name is Jimmy Newman. But at the time there was a semi-popular country singer by the name of Jimmy C. Newman. My father sold a song to this guy, not to a recording company, but one song to this one singer. The singer wanted to give my father credit for the song on the 45, but they realized that if it said Jimmy C Newman, but written by Jimmy Newman, everyone would think it was the same person. SO the label suggested my father to use another name, he settled on Jimmy Starr at their suggestion. Please keep in mind this is in the 60’s, lol. He decided to use this name from then on where music was concerned. He later started a band, The Jimmy Starr band, that travelled all over the country playing in big nightclubs (He took mom and all his kids with him, we lived everywhere).
SO, I’m born, he names me… Melody because he hopes I’ll have some sort of musical talent (I don’t), and STARR after HIM. SO THERE, IM NOT A STRIPPER!!!
It would STILL be a great name for a stripper- not gonna change my mind on that….:mrgreen:
Well that solves that mystery… Starr. Do you have your own outfit and pasties?
My goodness you two are certainly having fun at my expense.
I do have my own outfit and pasties but what’s that have to do with anything?
what a coincidence
I’d have a few dollar bills for MELODY STARR!
ROTFL!