...to not want to say my name when ordering my coffee?

[scampadoodle]

I'm not a miserable cow: if you work in a coffee shop I am happy to greet you, smile, say please & thank you. But I really really don't want to tell you my name, like I'm at a group therapy session. I am quite introverted & self-conscious and that kind of thing makes me want to run screaming.

Mind, I hate Starbucks so am unlikely to go in there but read about this policy in the paper & wondered what I'd do should the situation arise...

I am a Mumsnet God.

YANBU. I hate the whole system in Starbucks. They make your coffee and make you stand nervously by a small table hoping you're not all ordering the same and trying to remember who was there before you so you don't take their coffee etc... Why should buying coffee be so annoying?

And as for the name thing, I'd be Tina Turner or any name that makes people look up. Just for the sport of it.

You are Tiggy, you are :)

I think coffee shops could turn around this resentment issue of having to give your name by being in on the joke. They should encourage customers to come up with hilarious/scurrilous/plain rude fake names and perhaps have a chart on the wall of the week's best. Winner gets a free coffee.

What happened to perfectly good wine bars? A wee while in there and you'll have forgotten your nameanyway. Everyone who goes to these godawful coffee shop chains are definitely BU.

Sorry fucked messed up my overscores.

Use your Enid Blyton name (see other thread).

I just knew for the first advert that this name business wasn't going to go down a treat in the country whose general response to "have a nice day" is to cringe and smile awkwardly.

I give my name as Tall Skinny Latte. Works just fine.

Ah this reminds me of a funny story my brother told me. He was on hols in america and went for a coffee. The girl asked his name and he said 'Finton'

I thought it was going to be a "Fenton" (as in dog) story. Come to think of it that could be quite amusing.... give your name as Fenton, then sit in an out-of-the-way corner and wait for them to call FEEEEEEENNNNNNN-TTTTOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNN!!

I started worrying when I went in last week and the girl started my order and wrote my name on the cup as I was walking to the counter