When I bought that workbench at Sears on Saturday I also bought a leaf blower that was on sale.  I used my Sears card to pay for them.  The sales associates always ask you for a phone number to look you up on their system.  I gave them my new number (although it won’t be active until the 16th), since I’d called them and changed the info on my account last week.  I was watching the screen when he entered my phone number and oddly enough someone else’s name showed up (along with his address—turns out he lives on the next street over).  What’s truly weird is that I know this person.  I’m hoping that Verizon didn’t screw up and give me his number (my hope is that he changed his number and I just ended up with his old one).

Update: It turns out that they haven’t used that number for about two years.  I guess that illustrates just how long out-of-date information can live on in computer systems (e.x. doing a reverse phone lookup on the number still returns Jeff as owning it).