PaulaQ
12-07-2013, 03:37 AM
Yesterday, I was getting electrolysis. I've been at this a while, and since I go in for marathon 1-2 day full face clears, I've gotten to know my electrologists quite well - we're girlfriends.
So we all went to lunch together at a local Mexican restaurant. I was dressed en femme - I'm full time now, so I'm always en femme. But understand that because they were doing electrolysis on me, I had 4 days worth of beard growth, about half of which had been burned off. So I looked just freaking terrible.
So the image I present is:
- cute nails
- cute hair
- no makeup
- truly awful beard stubble, half missing
- cute sweater, jeans and boots.
- no bra, forms, etc - just my itty bitty boobs under a cami
This was a quite the gender ambiguous presentation! (I could've eased this by going as a guy - but the hell with it - I hate being a guy, and I'm not doing that anymore!)
Our waiter was nice - but he obviously struggled a lot with what pronoun to use. He'd start to say "he" - stutter and say "she". He'd start to say "sir" but stop at "s" and then say "ma'am".
Sometimes these types of situations can be annoying, but this poor guy was really trying HARD to get it right, and he very obviously had a LOT of trouble being sure which pronouns fit best under the circumstances. He was really cute about this, because he was obviously just so flustered - but he remained polite and professional. Just really, really confused about what in the hell he was seeing. (I thought he was cute looking too - that helped.)
By the end of lunch, the three of us were having a very difficult time not laughing out loud. We didn't want to make the poor guy feel bad - he really did seem to be trying to be professional. He just wasn't completely clear on what that meant...
I seriously thought about flirting with him - just to add to his discomfort, but that just seemed mean, and he really was trying so hard, and just stumbling all over himself.
We had a pretty good laugh about this in the car on the way back from lunch!
So we all went to lunch together at a local Mexican restaurant. I was dressed en femme - I'm full time now, so I'm always en femme. But understand that because they were doing electrolysis on me, I had 4 days worth of beard growth, about half of which had been burned off. So I looked just freaking terrible.
So the image I present is:
- cute nails
- cute hair
- no makeup
- truly awful beard stubble, half missing
- cute sweater, jeans and boots.
- no bra, forms, etc - just my itty bitty boobs under a cami
This was a quite the gender ambiguous presentation! (I could've eased this by going as a guy - but the hell with it - I hate being a guy, and I'm not doing that anymore!)
Our waiter was nice - but he obviously struggled a lot with what pronoun to use. He'd start to say "he" - stutter and say "she". He'd start to say "sir" but stop at "s" and then say "ma'am".
Sometimes these types of situations can be annoying, but this poor guy was really trying HARD to get it right, and he very obviously had a LOT of trouble being sure which pronouns fit best under the circumstances. He was really cute about this, because he was obviously just so flustered - but he remained polite and professional. Just really, really confused about what in the hell he was seeing. (I thought he was cute looking too - that helped.)
By the end of lunch, the three of us were having a very difficult time not laughing out loud. We didn't want to make the poor guy feel bad - he really did seem to be trying to be professional. He just wasn't completely clear on what that meant...
I seriously thought about flirting with him - just to add to his discomfort, but that just seemed mean, and he really was trying so hard, and just stumbling all over himself.
We had a pretty good laugh about this in the car on the way back from lunch!