My legal name isn’t Avalon Vigglioti….but she opened a bank account yesterday.
One of my Ebanned clients sent a money order made out to Avalon Vigglioti. I’m already quite a spectacle at the bank when I make my cash deposits in hundreds, fifties, and twenties (wearing a hot pink velour tracksuit of course!) So I took my Phoenix Erotic Entertainer License, my Las Vegas Sheriff’s Card, my PO Box registration form, and the envelope the money order arrived at my PO Box in attempts to prove that I truly am…Avalon Vigglioti.
No deal. BUT…you can open a business banking DBA account. DBA stands for Doing Business As. So I did. I can now accept checks made out to Avalon Vigglioti. I wonder how long it’s going to take for her to show up on Intelius.com? And if I apply for a teaching job when I’m 50, do I have to claim Avalon Vigglioti as a name I have used in the past?
Someone asked me the other day, how on earth a Scandinavian gal like me came up Avalon Vigglioti. Avalon, NJ is a quaint beachfront town south of Atlantic City, north of Cape May. It’s part of the infamous Jersey Shore that Philadelphians escape to for 10 weekends between Memorial Day and Labor Day. I haven’t missed a week a the Jersey shore since 2001. That’s the Avalon.
The Vigglioti: well, my husband has the classic hot-headed Italian temper. So whenever he has a temper tantrum, he blames it on his alter ego: Vinnie Vigglioti. Like Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde: it wasn’t him…it was Vinnie! Before we got married, I was hesitant about legally changing my last name. After all, my degrees, my certifications, and basically all of my accomplishments in the first 28 years of my life were in my maiden name. So one day over margaritas, we decided to change both our legal names to Avalon and Vinnie Vigglioti.
The next day, we sobered up and realized that wasn’t a good idea considering my Methodist minister father had no clue I danced. So I caved and currently bear a very Italian mafioso last name. However, on our honeymoon though, we did everything as Mr. and Mrs. Vigglioti: made all our dining reservations, introduced ourselves to the other newlyweds in Disney World, and even attended a timeshare preview as Mr. and Mrs. Vinnie Vigglioti. We didn’t buy the timeshare, but the company sold our (fake) names and (real) address to a mass marketing firm…so Vinnie Vigglioti gets a ton of junk mail every week.
I got stopped out of POT at breakeven (minus $3 for commissions) Even though I captured $2 of the move from $155 to $157, it was overruled by the volatility spike and the bid/ask spread. Oh well, it could have been worse.
I have maintenance day for the rest of the afternoon. I really hate getting manicure/pedicures. I can think of nothing that wastes time more than inhaling acetone while Ling sands my fingernails with a Dremmel. Oh well, just part of the job….and tax deductible!
See ya at Christie’s on 32nd Street tonight!
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[...] 8. Avalon Vigglioti. I received a personal check one time to Avalon and I didn’t know how to cash it. So I opened up a business bank account under that name. The full story on Vigglioti is here. [...]