lucy24 - 10:18 am on Jan 25, 2013 (gmt 0)

Heh. I recently had the equally unnerving opposite experience. Someone wanted to send me money-- this is not something that happens every day, so one does not wish to create obstacles-- and nudged me toward PayPal. Now, I could vaguely remember that once upon a time, possibly in the previous millennium, I had a paypal account. Can't remember why. I think they took three cents from my bank account and that was the only interaction we ever had. So I drift over there, ready to go through the whole round of "You don't exist, but you can't use this name because it's in our database" or at best "We have sent a temporary password to {e-mail address I have not used since 2003}" ... and instead everything just leapt to the fore and there I was.

Weird.