Claire Cook
01-03-2013, 10:13 AM
We’ve had a number of threads about 2013 resolutions, but perhaps not many from lessons we’ve learned from our CD experiences in 2012. I learn something from you all every time I visit this site, but here are some things that happened to me this year that have been learning experiences. Some I’ve posted, others not, but I thought you’d enjoy them:
1. Always try on clothes in stores with boobs and hip pads in place -- at least if you plan on buying them.
[One dress seemed fine, until I got it home … the only way could wear it was without boobs and butt.]
2. Always check that you have picked up all of your bags at the checkout (“Ma’am, you forgot your bag.”)
[Yes, the pink fog rolled in.]
3. Make sure your boobs are held in by your bra.
[Two instances. One, a GG friend of mine took me aside and noted that one breast seemed to hanging low. The second … well, it fell out.] http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?186706-I-Don-t-Feel-Complete&p=3057114&highlight=#post3057114
4. Know what to do if you are locked in your car.
[I was parked in my wife’s Honda and hit some button that locked the car and set off the alarm. While I was frantically searching though the owner’s manual this gentlemen rapped on the window, asked me to lower it and showed me the fix. A knight in shining T-shirt.]
5. Don’t leave your hearing aid in the ladies’ fitting room (Thank goodness for wonderful people)
[I was trying things on and had taken them out to slip things over my head. Pink fog again – left them there. But the owner found them and saved them for me.]
6. Don’t leave your purse in the shopping cart (Double thank goodness for wonderful honest people).
[OMG!! I got home and realized I didn’t have it. Fortunately someone found it and gave it to a checkout lady. Another lady within earshot said the same thing happened to her. Lesson: keep your keys in your purse so you can’t drive off without it.]
Yes, all of these things did really happen to me this year. How I wish my mother knew about her daughter, and could have prepared me for such events – sadly she didn’t (and I don’t know if she would have understood.) In any case – I learned from each and every incident, and there is no way they soured me on dressing. (Each in its own way was a confidence builder.) Experience is definitely the best teacher!
So how about sharing some of your “instructive” experiences from last year?
1. Always try on clothes in stores with boobs and hip pads in place -- at least if you plan on buying them.
[One dress seemed fine, until I got it home … the only way could wear it was without boobs and butt.]
2. Always check that you have picked up all of your bags at the checkout (“Ma’am, you forgot your bag.”)
[Yes, the pink fog rolled in.]
3. Make sure your boobs are held in by your bra.
[Two instances. One, a GG friend of mine took me aside and noted that one breast seemed to hanging low. The second … well, it fell out.] http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/showthread.php?186706-I-Don-t-Feel-Complete&p=3057114&highlight=#post3057114
4. Know what to do if you are locked in your car.
[I was parked in my wife’s Honda and hit some button that locked the car and set off the alarm. While I was frantically searching though the owner’s manual this gentlemen rapped on the window, asked me to lower it and showed me the fix. A knight in shining T-shirt.]
5. Don’t leave your hearing aid in the ladies’ fitting room (Thank goodness for wonderful people)
[I was trying things on and had taken them out to slip things over my head. Pink fog again – left them there. But the owner found them and saved them for me.]
6. Don’t leave your purse in the shopping cart (Double thank goodness for wonderful honest people).
[OMG!! I got home and realized I didn’t have it. Fortunately someone found it and gave it to a checkout lady. Another lady within earshot said the same thing happened to her. Lesson: keep your keys in your purse so you can’t drive off without it.]
Yes, all of these things did really happen to me this year. How I wish my mother knew about her daughter, and could have prepared me for such events – sadly she didn’t (and I don’t know if she would have understood.) In any case – I learned from each and every incident, and there is no way they soured me on dressing. (Each in its own way was a confidence builder.) Experience is definitely the best teacher!
So how about sharing some of your “instructive” experiences from last year?