Zeno's Bar & Grill

Let me start by saying I have never used a fake name: ever. Except for Isabella Penn, of course.

According to an article I read this weekend, aliases are all the rage at Starbucks, so I guess I’ve been missing out all these years. People use them for all kinds of reasons. Some wish to simplify things by using an “easier” name, substituting Jane for Xotchitl, for example. Other people just want to have fun. Who wouldn’t want to be called Fi-Fi or Lex for a day?

You can generate your own name anagram if you want to be really tricky a la Dan Brown, who used an anagram of real scholars’ names to come up with Sir Leigh Teabing in the Da Vinci code.

So…do you ‘fess up to your real name or come out with an outrageous alias when the barista asks?

--Melanie