Going out

[gail price]

I have just read Lisa Mae story about 'dealing with the puplic'. i must say 'good on ya' just be yourself and don't worry about what others say or think about you. We know what they really are missing :happy:.

I've been a cd since i can remember (48 yrs) and i have enjoyed every single moment.
Today i was out in greenwich park London in me new M&S skirt and top having a stroll (very windy) there must have been more then a dozen people walk pass me, and ether i looked good (yea ok i wish) or they just did not care about who i was. Except (there's always an except) one person i know did read me. It was the parking attendent. He passed me and then he stopped and started to follow me( o gould:(). I got to my car and as i was getting into the car i noticed the parking attendent comming over to me (Blimy i thought what do i do now). He tapped on the car window. It was at this point i thought i can't hide and the car key's fell to the floor so i could not whizz away:sad:. I decided what the heck. I opened the window, the attendent then asked if i was ok. (i thinking well here goes and why has he asked me that) i replied that I was ok. He then said that he was worried i was having a proplem, i replied in my gruff man voice that i was not having any problems.
Then we continued having a conversation about the weather and that the wind was blowing the conkers from the tree's onto the cars etc. He did not seem at all bothered about me being a cd. We had a great conversation that lasted more then thirty minutes.

So all ain't that bad is it.
Or was it he was a cd'er too, I should have asked.

Are there any cd'ers around this area.

[emma_enfemme]

Hi Gail,

Fab story. Maybe he was one of the girls??? I went out dressed to a pub in town a few weeks back. I could tell some people were looking and there were some whispers, but generally no one seemed to bother. The only one was a woman who was leaving. She looked at me, looked away, and then did a double take. If it wasn't for that fact I was so nervous, I would have laughed out loud. As it was I nearly wet my knickers. :happy:

[Ruth]

I put in a few words of encouragement to Lisa Mae as well.
I don't rate myself as an expert in taking to the streets, having been out in public just 3 times, but I've found by experience - the only way you truly know these things - that most people in the street are too busy in their own world, doing their own thing, thinking their own thoughts, to take a lot of notice of passers by. I'm slight in build with small features and when dressed as a woman I don't stand out as an oddity, so I'm lucky, but I don't fool myself that anyone taking a good look at me would mistake me for a woman.
But then, as I said, who takes a good look at you? A small minority.
Even shop assistants are paying more attention to the money in your hand than to the hand that's holding it.
But it's fun above all, even when you get that look. "Is he, is she... ohhh, what have we here..." By then there's been a big smile from me and I have swished on by.