I don’t know if it’s hilarious or depressing that this is how effective WiB’s powers are.

Also, a thought I had while typing the previous sentence, this kinda give me a The Silence from Dr Who feel.

There’s a French sci-fi series, “Les Futurs Mysteres de Paris” by Roland C. Wagner, whose protagonist has a similar power. It’s not always at this level of power, thankfully for him, but he has issues with getting served at restaurants, or people forgetting to pay him for work, etc. Even his own mother has to take a moment or two to recall that she has a son. The only human character in the series who never has any problems remembering him is this hedonistic ganja enthusiast who’s permanently tripping balls.

But yeah, this is almost the sort of thing that character would do. He’d need a crowd of at least two people in the immediate vicinity to really pull it off, though.