Since I got my cell phone last summer, I have occasionally gotten calls and voicemails from people looking for someone named Steve. I have sometimes had some trouble convincing these people that I am not, in fact, Steve. I got one such call yesterday:

[phone rings]

Me: Hello?

Guy: Steve-o!

Me: I’m sorry; you have the wrong number.

Guy: This isn’t Steve?

Me: Nope. Sorry.

Guy: You’re not Steve [last name]?

Me: No.

[pause]

Guy: So who is this?

Me: Someone else.

Guy: Oh. Sorry.

Me: No problem.

[guy hangs up]

Steve, wherever you are, please stop giving people my number.