Wolf: You’re a great guy. I really have no idea why an intelligent and sincere person like you should have any problems with his self image.
cherrybim: If you enter a kosher/treif restaurant, but you don’t actually eat anything there, then it may not be maaris ayin, since the fellow outside has reason to assume that [since you have a yarmulka on your head] you had just entered in order to get a drink or use the restroom. This is what GAW seemed to be quoting from Igros Moshe.