Hi Arek,
I had an amusing experience at Lowes ( building materials store) last year. As I came through the checkout, the cashier (I could tell by her accent that she was from eastern Europe, but couldn't tell which country) suddenly stopped running my items through the scanner and started staring at my last name (which is on my company uniform).
She quite "vigorously" said "Your last name!....That's not right!!"
I said "What do you mean?" to which she responded "You don't spell it correctly!"
After some back-and-forth, I asked her what in the world she was talking about, and she wrote out my last name the way it should be spelled in Polish .
I told her with a deadpan delivery that I am quite certain my last name is spelled correctly (which was lost on her) , and it was slightly modified from the way it was spelled when my great-great-great grandparents came over from Pilsen. That made her quite upset, and she insisted again that my name was not correctly spelled and that I should start spelling it the way she showed to me. She continued to scan my items at the register, muttering all along that I am from a Polish background, not Czech. I told her that no one spoke Polish or Czech, and according to the family history and records, all of them spoke German. This was the wrong thing to say, and she actually got mad at me.
In the few times since that I have come through her register, she just gives me the evil eye now, but doesn't say anything.
In retrospect, it is a bit amusing, but at the time I just thought she was a nutter.
