I was standing in line at a fast food restaurant. I heard my name and looked up. The cashier was looking at me funny. She asked where I went to high school, so I told her. Then she recited some poetry and claimed that I had written it and she had read it in the school's literary magazine years ago. She said that it had inspired her to follow her dreams and live life to the fullest.

I had never heard the poetry before (and certainly hadn't written any poetry in high school, let alone been published), and had never met her, but she kept praising me and telling me how I changed her life.