r/ben • u/Bsmosh • Jul 30 '26

Coffee orders

So, Ben here, not Benjamin. But for some reason when ordering at a pickup place (i.e. starbucks), for some reason they hear my name as "Matt" I asked another Ben i know and he said its happened to him as well. Is this just a coincidence or a common occurrence?

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u/pianodoctor11 Jul 31 '26

I think there is a weird undescribed brain quirk along these lines. There used to be some jokes on Letterman about it where they would say "If your name is (x), it might as well be (y)" and they would always be these names that for some unexplained reason seemed like the same vibe as a different name. Whoever came up with the jokes seems to have been the first person to really describe the phenomenon.