At an otherwise very nice, extremely well-organized and COVID-sensible choir, the lady at reception asked for my surname, and then: "Christian name?"
First name, sure. Forename, yup. Given name, fine. Christian name? Really? Do Jews have those? I hesitated, which must have seemed weird from her perspective, because who has to pause on that question? I'm 100% sure nothing ill or exclusionary was meant by it, and I recovered from being thrown off balance, and all was well, but, yeah, just that vertiginous little moment of "whoa....".
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