The same name

Text A: an original contemporary practice extract.

At the library collection desk, the assistant handed me a wrapped book labelled Maya Shah. I had reserved a history of local bridges, but inside was a guide to growing herbs. For a moment, I wondered whether I had selected the wrong title. The receipt showed a membership number ending 418, while mine ended 906.

The assistant searched again and found my book on the next shelf. Another Maya Shah had joined the library that week, and our reservations had been placed together. As I left, she arrived to collect the gardening guide. We laughed at the exchange, and the assistant added our middle initials to the labels. I had always thought of my full name as a precise piece of information; now it seemed surprisingly incomplete.

Text B: an original contemporary practice extract.

After a five-kilometre charity run, the results email congratulated Daniel Price on finishing in twenty-two minutes. I knew that could not be my time because I had stopped to retie a shoe and crossed the line with the clock showing more than forty minutes. The organiser first assumed the timing chip had failed, but the message listed bib 74. Mine was 407.

A younger runner called Daniel Price had entered the same event, and his result had been attached to my email address. The organiser corrected both records and sent new certificates. I later saw the other Daniel near the refreshment table, holding the certificate that had briefly belonged to me. The mistake was harmless, but it showed that a familiar name was not enough to identify either of us.

Both texts describe confusion caused by two people having the same name.

What similarities can you find in the writers' experiences of the mix-ups? Use evidence from both texts to support your answer.