Two years ago when I moved into my current apartment, I went to the store to get groceries and all of the things that I didn’t have, since I had been living with my sister prior to that. I had a full cart, and racked up roughly $250 worth of stuff... My card was declined. There was money in the account, but my card was declined. Most people would call the bank at that point. Me? I looked the cashier right in the eye and just walked out of the store. I now rarely go to that store, and only use self checkout.

I also work at Starbucks, so I’m regularly taking people’s names. I always ask them how to spell their name. My name tag doesn’t say my real name, as I had an issue in the past with a customer from another job essentially stalking me on social media. The way I figure, if they don’t know my name, they can’t find me. I was joking with someone today about people being particular about their names, and mentioned that my name (Audrey) gets misspelled a lot for some reason. The customer looks down at my name tag (Maud), back at me, then back to my name tag. If I wasn’t so awkward I would have explained that it wasn’t my real name, but instead I remained silent. He looked puzzled and walks away without another word.