This is like when you're working retail and the scanner glitches or the barcode isn't registered and the customer says "I guess that one's free then!" and you have to say "ha ha, very droll sir" as if you didn't hear that same joke yesterday.
reply> you have to say "ha ha, very droll sir"
replyI completely support the defensive adoption of a sardonic butler-persona for everybody on the other side of a cash-register. :p
They might like to hear "Michael Jackson? Like the guy who wrote the book about scotch??" once in a while
replyI had a friend named Michael Jackson who went by a different first name. I didn't even know until several years later when he showed a group of us his drivers license and accidentally outed himself.
replyMichael... Bolton?
replyThis is 100% what I was thinking of, I considered using that name in my comment actually!!
replyLike the Michael Bolton character in Office Space.
reply"Well, you could go by Mike instead of Michael."
reply"Why should I have to change? He's the one who sucks!"