They've sent me two

A friend applied for two grants for his two daughters at university. One of them was Sheila Ann M. the other Sandra M. He was sent a reply to say that his three daughters had been awarded the grants.

He phoned to ask what was going on, he only had two daughters.

No, said the young man, you have three - Sheila, Ann and Sandra. It says so here.

"Well," said father, "if that is so then one of them must have been an immaculate conception, because I only know of two - one is called Sheila Ann and the other Sandra, but you have the paperwork, you must know better than I do"

A few years ago I bought a dedicated flash-gun for my camera direct from Sony UK. When it arrived, it was in it correct box packed in a large outer box which also contained a 5Gb Microdrive (old technology now, but leading-edge stuff at the time). So I rang Sony and offered to return it. The person I was eventually connected to told me quite stroppily that I must be mistaken as Sony would never make such a fundamental error.

So I kept the microdrive for few weeks in case they changed their minds, then sold it on eBay for £120.