I'm a truck driver. Most days, I just jockey trailers around at a paper mill. On my days off, however, I volunteer to take a load to Chicago, just for the extra money. Today was one of those days.
Normally, my work "uniform" consists of a t-shirt, shorts and work boots. Today, I opted to forego the shorts and just wear a skirt the whole day, along with a cute pair of jacket earrings. I decided that I'm tired of worrying what other people think or say about my fashion choices. I was delivering at a customer I'd never been to before, then picking up a load coming back to my area (a "backhaul" as it's known in the industry), also at a place I'd never been. The chance of being noticed by anyone I actually know was minimal for most of the day.
I was expecting some sort of comment from dock personnel or other drivers, but the only comment I got was from the security guard at the first delivery. He liked my earrings.
To make a long story short, I spent the entire day wearing a skirt. I walked in plain sight, opened and closed trailer doors, and did everything I would normally do. As with my previous movie adventure, nothing happened. Even at our yard, where I'm 100% other drivers saw and noticed, crickets.
I was so proud of myself that I stopped at Goodwill (yup, still in my skirt) on my way home and bought 5 more skirts. I think I need a 12-step program to break my shopping-for-girly-stuff addiction.
This all comes on the heels of my sister and her ex-husband seeing me in MIAD mode for the first time ever last Friday, and the ex-husband coming over to hang out for about 8 hours yesterday, offering to go shopping with me and even trying on a pair of heels I bought this week.
Needless to say, I'm riding pretty high at this point, and I wanted to share my elation with you all.
Originally Posted by Sami Brown
