I live alone and present as a woman at least 90% of the time so, I was en femme last night. I live on a cul de sac that has 10 units. I am not "out" to my neighbors but a few have seen me going/coming in my car or near my house. No one has ever said anything to me about seeing a woman and wondering who she might be.
Last night while online I received a phone call from a woman whose name I did not recognize. I usually do not answer a call unless I recognize the caller. A short time later I heard knocking on my door while I was upstairs. By the time I reached the level where my front door is the knocking had stopped. I soon heard very loud knocking coming from the door leading to my garage. As I approached the door one of my male neighbors opened the door and stepped into my family room. He said that neighbors had noticed that my garage door had been open all day and wondered if I was OK. I was a bit taken aback and assured him that I was alright. I also told him that CJ (that is the name by which he knows my male self) was not home just then. He quickly turned around and told someone outside that everything was OK and left.
Apparently, I had not shut my garage door after bringing in the paper that morning. The phone call from the woman whose name I did not recognize was from a neighbor whom I do not know. She was calling to see if I was OK. I do not know if the neighbor who came into my house recognized that the woman he was looking at was really CJ (probably, since that is who he was expecting to see).
There is a "neighbors night out" gathering next week for people living on the cul de sac. It will be interesting to see what, if anything, any of my neighbors will say to me.
Ah, well, such is life for a "pretend woman".