Did You Ever Forget?

[Krisi]

This only applies to those of us who are "in the closet" of course, but did you ever forget something you were wearing and answer the door, go out in public, etc.? Forgot you were wearing boobs? Makeup? Nail polish? Earrings or other jewelry?

I forgot a ring one time. A guy came to give me an estimate on the yard or something. I took off all my "girlie" stuff, put on guy clothes, but after he left I realized that I was wearing a "girly" ring. And I have forgotten to remove my makeup a few times but since I only wear lipstick and beard cover and the lipstick wears off, that probably wasn't too obvious.

So, if you have done this, let's hear about it.:battingeyelashes:

[Helen_Highwater]

I've had a delivery in the past where I've had to do a quick change into male things, all good, only to see the delivery guy smiling having seen the marks left on my feet by the pair of strappy heels I'd been wearing.

I've also learned not to buy waterproof mascara as it can be the devil's own to get it off completely. I'm also convinced some mascara not only coats your lashes but the colour stains them as well.

[krissy]

OH Yeah !! i was drinking and i decided to go to the lake at night so i dressed in a cute top a pink bra with my breast forms .well to make a long story short a car passed me and as i drove down the road i saw it turn around i freaked out here i had my forms on and i knew it was a cop im flying down the winding roads trying to loose him.no luck but it was a game warden. he pulled up next to me told me to pull over i got out and asked why he pulled me over he thought i was spot lighting deer; he saw my breast gave me directions to this nice camp area and let me go talk about wow i ended up stuck on a rock all night when i got loose i went home.but it was so fun wearing my forms and just driving around.:battingeyelashes:

[Jolene Robertson]

Good question, I'm sure most of us have slipped up a time or two. Bet we get some good stories from this one. First time when I was still working I'd been dressed and forgot to remove my lipstick before going to work, of course one of the bosses had to point it out as soon as he saw me and in front of everyone. One of my co - workers had just set me up with a friend of his wife's and he said I guess you guys did hit if off so that defused it rather quickly. The other couple times I forgot I had on a girly ring or watch and went to my Moms which she caught right away, I made up some kind of story about having to work on re-sizing the for my wife. Don't know how well she bought it but it was never mention again.

[BLUE ORCHID]

I have been know to leave an Earring laying around back in the old days before my Pierced ears days. >Orchid**O:daydreaming:O**

[JoanneNY]

That's what got me busted many years ago. I was using soft plastic water bags for forms and left them, forgotten, in a dish on her dresser. When she returned home from work the inquisition began. One of the lowest points in my life. The upside was the talk that began the DADT era, all fond memories since I lost her in '07...

[lisalove]

I'm not in the clost, but I have answered the door to friends who don't know about Lisa with bright pink toe nails.

[Sandra_Dodds]

Forgot I?d left a pair of heels in the bathroom, which did not impress my wife one bit. My eldest daughter thought they were cute but never said or asked anything more at the time. To this day, I still don?t know what she thought or suspected, or was told by my wife, but nothing more has ever been said.

[ShelbyDawn]

Not necessarily forgot per se, I was enjoying an evening dressed in my apartment and ordered takeout, this was pre COVID days when the delivery person actually knocked on the door.
My best friend called with a problem with something he was working on and we got to talking and brainstorming so I was distracted when the knock came on the door and opened it without a thought.

Now I don't even try to pass and didn't have a wig or any kind of makeup, just my skirt ,top, heels and the required thigs underneath, including forms.

Delivery girl said, "Oh, you wear a skirt?"

I answered, "Yes I do."

I don't know if my friend picked up on what was said or not be to this day he's never mentioned it and the delivery girl just asked for my signature and left, probably told the story back at the restaurant and had a laugh at my expense but so what.

[Natalie5004]

I had mentioned that I was half dressed and the police where in my backyard when I stepped out my back door, correct?

[ShelbyDawn]

half dressed

Left or right half?

[OrdinaryAverageGuy]

Just the other day I got to the jobsite, parked and walked in to check out the house. Half way to the house I realized I'd forgotten to change out of the girly t-shirt I had worn while driving. Just a solid color shirt, not horribly obvious I suppose but still cut with the lower scoop and half sleeves like no one else wears to a construction site. I managed to not panic, walked through the house and then back to the truck. I drove to the back of the house and then changed there out of sight of the guys working out front.

[abby054]

Yes, I forgot to remove my femme engagement ring. My wife saw it. That did not end well. Now I have a jewelry inspection each time before finishing my return to drab.

[BobbiKay]

My wife and I had gotten back from a holiday party. I had worn femme boots with 2 inch block heels, tucked in my pants. The cops knocked on the door, asking to search the grounds as a neighbor's adult daughter (has PTSD) had gone missing. I accompanied the cops around the yard, opened the shed for them, etc. We didn't see any footprints in the snow other than our own. One of them noticed the impression left by my heels, and said "Aha!". I said "no, that's mine" and showed them my boot heel. Nothing more was said.

[Rhonda Darling]

I was sitting in a meeting at work in the Chief of Staff’s office - just him, me, and an office director. After about 30 min into the meeting I notice I was wearing my (faux) diamond engagement ring and wedding ring set. Big oops. It nearly ripped the flesh off my finger as I quietly fought to get them off under the table. The office head later commented on the rings and I lamely said that my wife had asked me to hold them and had forgotten to take them back, and that I put them on so I wouldn’t lose them. He shrugged his shoulders with a “whatever” tossed at me as he left.

[Stephanie47]

My wife and I are in a deep DADT marriage; her choice. On several occasions I have failed to put away a garment. Once it was a panty; another time a bra. All she did was place it on the top of the clothes dryer which is behind a set of doors in the 3/4 bathroom. Another time she came home and found two white water balloon in the kitchen sink. I forgot to pop them and dispose of the balloons. She looked and the balloons, then looked at me. Did not say a word. My wife and I sleep apart for medical reasons. I've taken to wearing an ankles length nylon gown every night. Right now, as I am banging away on this keyboard I am wearing a white gown with spaghetti straps under an ankle length male robe. Several months ago I came out of the 3/4 bathroom which connects to the master bedroom through a walk-in closet. My wife just came out of the full bath across the house and saw me standing in the dining room area in the ankles length gown with a white tee shirt over the top. I don't know if her eyes did not focus on me because she did not have her glasses on or not. Anyway, if she saw me she chose to not say anything. There were several times when our mailbox was in front of our home that she retrieved the mail before I could walk down to get it, and, she would find a small package from ebay. She never inquires about them. Now, the mail box is half way down the street at a community pedestal mailbox. She never retrieves the mail. If I do get a parcel now, I leave it in the family car until I can retrieve it later.

[Cheryl T]

Can't say that I ever forgot.
My touch of OCD and desire to remain undiscovered made certain that everything was put away.

[CynthiaD]

I wear ballet flats at home, even in male mode, and I sometimes forget and wear them out with my male clothing. And thereby hangs a tale … but not today.

[kellyanne]

One day I had done my no make up - make up look which does not include mascara but this day it did.
Afterwards a quick soap and water is expected to take everything - off assuming it was foundation and a bit of blush.

Forgot the mascara which fortunately came off a bit because when I went to visit a buddy who was a bricklayer he asked
" what's that on your eyes - it looks like mascara?"

On a recent move I forgot I had some pink tutus in a bag , thought the dresser was empty - my friend who was helping opened the drawer and a bag of something tulle was staring at us.
...quickly grabbed it but they were pink and hot red/ pink.

I though I had moved all my girlie stuff but stuff like pink towels , 2 tilting beauty mirrors etc and folded pink bedsheets raised eyebrows I am sure.

The one guy was supposed to come by the new place for a visit but he called and just wanted to drop off a book I lent him and bolt - I have the sense he will not be calling.

The irony is he is a devout Liberal but like many of all persuasions - when faced with accepting someone you know as TG or gay or anything different - my experience is most are not really Liberal in practice or true attitude.

[valerie anne]

I have been caught several times by the postman after using 24 hour lip colour.

After an evening of dressing with full makeup, I forget that on the following morning, I am still made up. It depends a bit on the colour, but it does what it says on the tin!

I'm getting less worried about this though, as nobody seems to notice and I now have boobs and bra straps to hide as well.

[JenniferMBlack]

Forgot no. Didn't care many times.

[ShelbyDawn]

Forgot no. Didn't care many times.

Best answer...

[Natalie5004]

Left or right half?

Forms, bra and a halter dress. No makeup or anything. The cops called me sir.

[Beverley Sims]

I forget my engagement ring on occasions so I just roll it around my finger

[looking_good]

Necklace - fake pearls. Always check the mirror.

Even though time has passed, I still haven't figured out "Oh, this? Well, you see, I was...". Working towards "Because it looks hot," but just not there just yet.

[Jemima Stephens]

I got changed back into drab to take the dog to the groomers once and as I handed our pooch's lead to the groomer I realised I had a girly bracelet watch on that wrist which she clocked....but said nothing thankfully

[jacques]

hello Krisi,
one day when I was out for a walk I heard a child say "Mummy, why is that man wearing make up?"
luv J

[sometimes_miss]

Only since I've lived alone, since I only wear female clothing at home.
Once, I forgot to take my nail polish off before leaving for work. Luckily, I had solvent in the trunk of the car which removed it.
I've left on lipstick, which was easily wiped off.
I usually wear dangling earrings, which make noise so I don't forget to take them off. But when I discovered magnetic backed studs, I wore pretty fake diamond studs a lot. And forgot those. luckily, I spotted them in the rear view mirror of my car before going in to work.
That's about it, since being on my own.

The real destroyer, was when I accidentally left a slip out, back when I was married but still in the closet. Wife found it, blew a gasket, which precipitated the eventual divorce.
Other than those, AFAIK, I'd never previously done anything to give myself away.

[Judy-Somthing]

I went to a big party one time after a 4 hour dress-up play time at home.
Two girls started talking to me and asked why I was wearing eyeliner, I said "I'm not wearing eyeliner" as I figured I better hit the bathroom and clean it off!

Another time I dressed and put on Nail polish, after dressing I couldn't find my wife's Nail polish remover.
I remembered I had Acetone in a basement in another town, so I drove over there and when I got out of my car two guys from a local church started talking to me.
As they asked if I wanted to attend they handed me a pamphlet and as I reached for it they saw my bright red Nail polish.
It was awkward, especially back in the 80s.

[Geena75]

A few years ago I was first experimenting with eye shadow. I had put on some dark green and noted that is wasn't anything special. I changed back and ran an errand to the store and back. When the missus got home she asked "what happened to your eye?" I exclaimed puzzlement and rushed to the bathroom to wash it off, and explained it must have been some dirt or soot that got on there when I was working on something. Still wonder if the people at the store noticed or wondered.

[Gilly68]

I don't know if this counts, but due to housing issues, I'm currently staying at my dad's place.

I've got my toes painted a nice bright red.

Dad knows I like dressing, but it's kind of a DADT situation, so I always make sure I have socks on to hide my nails.

Anyhow, lady Saturday night I was in bed, and I had to go back downstairs for something, Dad was still up, and it was only while I was there talking to him for a minute that I realized my toenails were on full display! He never said anything, so who knows if he even noticed!

[Davina2833]

Cynthia,

I drive in Patent leather Black ballet flats. So one morning I'm getting breakfast at a grocery store sitting in their dining area and look down and I'm still wearing them. Blushing, I finish breakfast
and leave. Nothing was said but I am still eating there every day and I have gotten several comments on my nails OPI Bubble Bath w/gel. but no comments on my ballet flats.

Davina

[Lori Ann Westlake]

I only ever "forgot" on one occasion, and it was relatively trivial. You see, I'd always been so damned careful, about what I called "my security"--not being discovered--ever since I was twelve or so. Luckily, I never was,

However, one day a few years ago I was taking the dog for a walk down the road when it struck me... I'd been dressed earlier, and changed back into male shorts and T-shirt--when I realized I was still wearing this big pair of dangly baroque silver earrings I'd forgotten to take off!

I guess it's not a big deal. On another occasion I went to the local grocery store in male mode deliberately sporting a pair of earrings just like them--may even have been the same ones--just for fun. I don't like to mix gender stuff together, since one seems to neutralize the value of the other, but it is fun to hang out little clues to my "Lori" side that men can get away with these days. On that occasion, nobody said a thing about the earrings, though I'd love to know what anybody tbought.

But that time, walking the dog, the earrings were a genuine oversight, and I felt momentarily embarrassed as I realized what I'd forgotten. It's different among neighbors than walking among strangers in a grocery store. Still, I didn't rush back home, or stop to take them off. I just carried on "walking the dog." Nobody said a thing that time either, and that chances are that nobody even noticed!

[ronny0]

I had just repaired a Roku player power cord. Took a photo of the repair to send to a friend that was having similar problems with his Roku device.
Some time later I happened to look at the photo and I did a double take. I had long red fingernails holding the Roku.
He never mentioned it, but years later when I opened up to him about my dressing his response was that he didn't want to know anything about it.
And after I sent him some photos of me fully dressed he requested I keep my dressing hobby to myself.
I later apologized for over sharing, his response was funny, he said that's why they have a Delete option with e-mail.

[ShoeziQ]

25 years old and I had a new acquaintance coming over to help with some computer issues (late 90's, it was a new technology) I had left my 2nd pair of heels out in the family room. He says, something about having girls over and my foolish response is "no, those are mine." I almost died right there. I said I was trying them out so I could work a local bar for their Rocky Horror show (total lie, but the outfit is fabulous!). I'm not entirely sure he knew what that was, but we didn't stay in touch. Hah!

[Bianca Fay]

I wear pantyhose under my pants or shorts every day when I'm in the privacy of my own house. It's become so customary that I occasionally forget I'm wearing them.
Due to finances, I recently found it necessary to rent out two of my extra bedrooms. Although I try to remain discreet there was a time when one of my tenants came home unexpectedly and struck up a conversation with me in the kitchen. I was wearing a pair of nude nylons under my shorts. She never said a word about it. She might not have noticed, considering that the pantyhose matched my skin tone, although the reinforced toes must have been a giveaway.

[Amy Lynn3]

I had just gotten out of the shower and dried off. I live alone and the doorbell rang. I slipped on a pair of pants only. I open the door and there stood my grown son, who looked down and said " nice nails Dad". They were a nice shade of pink, but to this day nothing else has been said about them.

[Lana Mae]

Was going to the grocery store. I thought I had remembered everything! Got in the parking lot and looked in the mirror and...no wig!!! Well do I go home and get it or...? I decided ... so completely dressed went into the store with just my combed hair! No one seemed to even notice let alone say anything! So I realized the wig is actually for me!! Hugs Lana Mae

[April Rose]

I didn't want my wife to have to be in the closet with me, so I told her she could talk about my gender issues with anyone she felt safe sharing it with. She spoke about it with her sister, who told her that she already knew. Apparently I had come out to her around ten years before then, when I was drunk, and I didn't remember it.

[okie kay]

iwas sitting around enjoying myself one afternoon when my friend pulled in the driveway , a very quick change back to manly attire but I had fotgotten my earrings . He aske are tou wearimg earrings now , I told him I was practihng be a pirate '

[TamT]

I forgot, not once but at least three times to get the nail polish remover with me, but I found out long after I had painted my nails:
- at a hotel during a business trip (I had to scratch the nails with a key before leaving the room).
- when I was driving to the office in femme (it was planned to stop in the nearby and change to guy mode in the car, but I had to stop in a couple of stores to buy the polish remover... I think it was the first time I interact with others as Tam).
- just after I parked at the office (I had to walk to my desk with my hands in the pockets to reach the backup remover bottle... I had learned from the previous).

[michelle.foster]

I was in the Doctors office one time getting a physical. He asked me to take off my shoes and socket so he could check my foot reflexes. He took a double take at my bright red toe nails but never said a word.
Also about that time I had a neighbor stop by, I was bare foot with my bright red toe nails exposed. I don't know if she noticed, she said nothing and left shortly there after.
Having heart issues, I took a ride with the EMT's to the ER, with again red nail polished toes. After I was all check in, the driver, a female came back in the room to check if there was anything else she could for me. I thanked her and said "No, I was all set". She commented that she like my nails and walked out.
I, also, don't care who see the polish both fingers and toes. Most people don't comment one way of the other.

[ChubbyLeahCD]

I always forget to change back to men?s underwear. So there have been times my wife came home and here I am with a thong on so I go to the bathroom and take it off and go commando.
One time I forgot that and forgot to put away my girlie flip flops. They?re just Walmart flip flops and they are like an aqua color. So this guy comes to fix and appliance and I look down as I open the door and I?m wearing the flip flops. Then I sat on a bar stool by the island while he fixes it and he needs to walk behind me to go back to his truck for a tool. As he does that, after he walks away I feel my lower back is cold. My sweat pants dropped some and my wife?s Lacy orange panties are showing. Oops!

[Stephanie47]

I did make a comment back at #16, but I do remember another faux pas. When I was in college I was home alone because the rest of the family had gone for an overnight trip to my grandmother's home. I did not go with them because I had a physical for a job with United Parcel Service. The physical was for late in the afternoon. I spent several hours in the morning en femme wearing my mother's clothes; That's all I had access to way back in the mid 1960's. Anyway I had worn her pull up girdle. When I took it off the seams of the girdle left a road map to stitching all over my butt. I spent as long as I could trying to knead out the lines before I had to leave for the physical. I do not know if the lines were still visible. I did get a job offer, but it was for a very much lower hourly rate. I think it was another case of bait and switch with UPS. I did not take the offer.

Recommendation; Do not wear tight fitting undergarments (girdles, bras, etc) before a physical examination if you want to remain totally in the closet.