I'm amazed at the amount of mis-addressed email I get. I get a lot of spam, including email from places where people have signed up with my email address -- that's my favorite. Every week I have a few people trying to recover the password for "their" email address from gmail -- they clutter my inbox, but I can just ignore them. Then I get people emailing me just to see if the address if valid -- just ignore those as well. And then I get a lot of mis-mailed email. Sometimes someone has typoed the address, or left off the rest of the email address (like black.kat@gmail, or kat.kramer@gmail, etc), but the most amazing thing to me is people who email other "close" people with the wrong email address, or important emails that get mis-mailed to me -- like emails about insurance claims, rents not being paid, or all the business docs that people send me.

I got an email the other day from a poor mom practically begging her son to email her and dad. She said dad was bummed to not be able to get a hold of his son in his times of need. It was sad, but seriously -- how do you not know your own son's email address?! And really, his name is Kat? Maybe that's why he doesn't get in touch with you.

Sometimes I email people back and tell them they have the wrong email address. Like if it sounds like they're looking for some long lost friend, or it's a really cute and sincere email and I feel bad they won't get a response from whoever they meant to really email. Or if it sounds like something important -- business related or something like that. I had someone once explain to me, no -- you know -- the PG&E rebate for the air conditioner, after I told her I wasn't the Kat she was looking for. No, seriously, I don't have an air conditioner and you're emailing the WRONG address!