J and H are friends of ours from high school who are married and live a few hours away. J was the best man in our wedding. In August, they are moving back to this area and Rob and I couldn't be more elated. (And not just because their house will have cable and high speed internet.)

J sent Rob an email on Thursday to say that they would be in town Monday and Tuesday working on remodeling the house they're moving into, and we should get together while they're here. Rob read it to me, we agreed we wanted to see them, and then we let it drop. Friday I asked Rob, "Hey, did you email J back?" He hadn't. Saturday morning I said, "You emailed J yet?" He hadn't. This morning Rob was outside working and, knowing he certainly still hadn't gotten around to emailing J, I figured I'd just take care of it myself. J had sent the message to Rob, so I logged into Rob's email so I could reply directly to it. I wrote the message like I thought Rob would write it and signed the message as Rob because that was simpler than explaining to J why I was sending the message from Rob's account instead of Rob.

Then I skipped outside and said to Rob, "Hey, I just emailed J for you."

"Huh? I emailed him yesterday."

"You did?"

"Yeah. Why are you laughing?"

"Well, I sorta sent it as you."

"What? Why would you do that?"

"Well, it was easier to reply to his message than start from scratch, and then it was easier to sign as you than explain why I was sending from your account and...."

"Well great, now he thinks I'm senile! You're going to have to email him yet again and explain the whole thing." Which of course I did, the subject being Rob is senile.

But the funniest part of it all was when Rob and I compared the two messages we'd each sent to J.

What Rob wrote:

J,

-Rob

What I wrote as "Rob":

J,

-Rob

Do I know my man or what?