An unrelated story. It seems that ATT recycling gave one of my old phone numbers to a Chinese guy. That guy got himself a Vons club card and used that number in the application. At some point, I misplaced my own Vons card, so I tried to punch in my phone numbers and this one got accepted. I’ve been using that number since then.
When you use a Vons card, it prints your name on the check, cashiers often look it up and call you by that name. They still do that to me, occasionally. Even though I’m clearly Caucasian and I don’t look anything like Yu Chi Wu. Most of the time, they just get into the state of cognitive dissonance.
Once I even got a gasoline gift card from them, because the account of Mr. Wu earned enough points of some kind.
There’s only been one or two occasions in the last year that anyone has actually questioned whether I really was Mr. Wu …
