akidnamed finger

I was born in Queens, New York; I lived on the corner of 3rd and 21st. I was at Stuyvesant High School and just moved here two months ago for my final year. These were the things I told customers while I worked a minimum wage job in high school at McDonald's.

It was the only way to keep that job interesting when I started; some customers recognized my voice and immediately thought I had to be born there and had just recently moved to Georgia. I got tired of giving them a long speech about how I just had the accent from my parents, how I was born here, and then answering questions about where my parents are from; instead, I just ran with it. I made my own persona at work, saying that I was a kid from Queens ( the only place I remember distinctly from my dad) who had just moved here and immediately got a job. Some regulars, even from New York, took the lie, even calling me nicknames like Lil Brooklyn or the "guy with the accent". If we had an especially long drive-thru line, I would make stories of things that I did in New York in my youth just knowing certain spots someone might assume I go to being there. Like going to a Mets game or hanging out with friends at a pizza shop, usually named Tony's Pizza or something, or random stories about taking the subway. These stories, of course, were utterly fabricated. Even after I left those same customers who probably still go there daily, they still don't know.