4 Comments

1. JuliaM says:
   June 5, 2011 at 4:28 pm

   Great anecdote!
2. Lynne says:
   June 5, 2011 at 6:04 pm

   Pure class!
3. Sam Duncan says:
   June 6, 2011 at 2:35 am

   I have a friend who lives with her mother and shares her name: first, middle and (obviously) surname all identical. I’m too polite to ask whatever posessed her parents, but there it is. She usually goes by her middle name to avoid too much confusion, and it doesn’t screw up NI because it goes by numbers, but I’m told they take it in turns to do jury duty.
4. Slamlander says:
   June 6, 2011 at 6:58 am

   I personally knew a family that did just this; all the males were given the same name, not even differing in the middles name. I had met one of the brithers in California. I met more of them in Austin. They are in their fourth generation right now. I have personally met seven of them. This was in the early 90’s and their patriarch was born in the 30’s. They routinely swap social security numbers at their own convenience.