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I know that my name is not the most common name, but it’s also not something so unique that nobody else would have it. I know that if people search for my name but put a first name that isn’t my legal name, it’s a bit more common. But if you search for Jennie Levin, there are other people out there but not too many. So if something arrives at my home that is addressed to me, there’s a good chance that it actually is for me.

So the other day, I had someone call me through the callbox at my building saying they had a delivery for me. I wasn’t expecting anything, but I buzzed them in to see what it was. I answered the door, and it was a process server telling me that I had been served with a subpoena. I was in shock and so confused, so I didn’t sign anything but I took the paperwork and decided to look more into it. I received a subpoena once before the pandemic when I was on the witness list for a drunk driver’s trial to discuss what I had seen at the scene. But I had been given a heads up before that came to me and this one arrived with no warning. I also looked at all the paperwork that I was handed and I didn’t recognize anything in it, and I was shocked when it said I was to appear in court next week.  But after trying to figure out what was going on, I noticed the information on the top of the cover page.

While it did have my name on it, it had a business address that I didn’t recognize. So I decided to look up the address, and it’s the office address of a lawyer named Jennie Levin. I was so relieved when I realized it wasn’t for me because I was really panicking for a moment. I contacted the law firm that sent the subpoena to confirm that they sent it to the wrong person, and the lawyer apologized for the mistake and told me that it was not for me and I could throw out the papers that were handed to me. I also let the other Jennie Levin know that I received paperwork that was theirs but that I would be shredding it. I figured that was a weird 20 minutes that I was trying to figure out what was going on, but that was the end of that.

Then the next evening, I was finishing up dinner when someone called me on the building callbox again. I asked who it was since I wasn’t expecting anyone, and they said they had a gift delivery of wine. This seemed really weird since I don’t really drink and I asked if they could confirm it was for me. They said yes and they said my name and address and that it was a gift so they couldn’t say who it was from. I buzzed them in and didn’t open my door for them. Once they left, I opened the door and there was another subpoena on my doorstep! And again, the subpoena had a completely different address on it so I don’t know why the process server said it was for me. I know that they can lie or mislead people and that’s why they said it was a gift delivery. But I don’t know why they are using my address when the address on the paperwork is completely different.

Again, I contacted the law firm that sent out the subpoena and explained that my address is my home and I don’t know why they are sending people to my home when the address on the form is the office address for the person they are trying to reach. The lawyer said he was sorry and that this shouldn’t happen again. But honestly, I’m just waiting to see if another process server will be at my door another time because they refuse to use the address on the paperwork. Hopefully, they get it right so the correct person shows up to court since they have to appear in a few days.

While I did panic the first time I got the subpoena when I was worried it was actually for me, it became a bit funny once I realized the mistake. And when the second one arrived, it was more of a “you’ve got to be kidding me” feeling. I haven’t had a lot of random things make me laugh and feel ridiculous, so at least this added a bit of fun to my week. And at least I’m not in any legal trouble and my panic was for nothing.

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I’m sure everyone has moments where they just can’t think straight or they have some crazy incorrect idea. I for sure have my dumb moments and when they happen I usually go a bit crazy. If I don’t realize the moment is happening, I’m going crazy trying to fix it. And if I do realize what happened, I go crazy going over it in my head. And then of course I go crazy thinking about how crazy I got over it. It’s a very bizarre cycle but in the end I usually can laugh about how I behaved.

Last year, I had one of those moments where I didn’t realize what happened until it was over. I’ve written about how I work when I’m out of town for Thanksgiving. I’m so lucky that I work remotely so I can do this and I work out the hours I can work with my manager. I usually have to change the hours I work to accommodate family stuff but I can either work extra hours another day or use my banked hours to make up for it.

But as I’m sure a lot of people know, when you are out of town and not doing your normal routine you can forget what day of the week it is. Last year when I was working the day after Thanksgiving, I started early and my manager knew that I would be ending early based on what the plan was with my family. But because I do start early a few days a week, somehow I got it in my head that I was supposed to start that early and I was going to have to use banked hours to make up for the time I lost. Everything went fine that day and when I was in the car with my parents on the way to the airport that night, I suddenly realized what day of the week it was. Because of my schedule, I actually worked more hours that day than I was supposed to, not less. I had a huge moment of freaking out in a good way about what happened and I messaged my manager to let her know what happened. It was fine and it all worked out with no issues, but it was still a truly dumb moment on my part.

And I had another dumb moment this week. It was also related to work but it was for my other (temporary) job. Because it is a contact job with a specific number of hours, I have to be very aware of how many hours I have worked and how many hours I have left on my contract. It’s not that hard to track and I have a good general idea of how many hours a day I need to work to get all the hours in before the contract needs to be completed.

But even with being on top of all my tracking, I freaked out when I was looking at my hours worked versus my hours in the contract because I thought I had to finish out my contract this month. If that was true, I would have been very behind in my hours and I would have needed to work almost double the hours I expected this month. I went into planning how I could accomplish this and probably spent 20 minutes trying to figure it out before I realized I should double check my contract.

If only I thought of doing that first because I discovered that my contract is not done this month but next month. And I was exactly where I should be in my hours and everything was perfect. I wish I had skipped the time I spent panicking and just looked calmly at things and made sure I was correct with the hours as well as my contract. That would have saved me so much stress.

But at the same time, even though this incident caused me stress it is now giving me some happiness at laughing at myself. It’s so silly how insane I was acting and how irrational I was since I just couldn’t look at the situation calmly. Looking back, I’m so glad nobody was watching me have that moment because I’m sure I looked like I was having a breakdown and trying to solve the world’s problems with math with all the post-its and paper I had used to work out how to do all my hours.

With all the things in my life that do stress me out, it’s nice that I can bring some levity and happiness to my life from my dumb moments. It gives me a moment to sit back and not think about everything else that is happening. I can just think about how crazy it was that I thought things were the way I believed they were and just enjoy that things are all working out for the better.

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