Wednesday I showed, shaved, dressed and set off for Manchester inthe car about midday arriving at my destination, a wig salon, about 2'ish.
The guy in the shop started by asking if I wanted a private booth or was I happy in the main part of the salon which I was. Asking what I was looking for I replied I was considering a shorter look. A bit like Ollivander choosing wands a small selection appeared. On with the first one and I must say iwas surprised by just how much I liked the look. Two more were tried on, one discounted so now a choice between 2. I chose the first one, the good news bekng there was 20% off so with 2 new wig caps the bill came to £80.
Having left to buy a sandwich froma convenience store I was waylaid buy a GG doing a shopping survey. We chatted as we progressed through the usual rate out of 10 type questions. That done back to the car to eat said sandwich.
Having a bit of time to kill I went over to the John Lewis store at Trafford Park and browsed for 30 minutes before heading off to meet Eemz in the Gay Village.
Well we met in OnBar, found they didn't do food so switch to another pub, ate and chatted before switching back to OnBar to meet other CD'ers.
As that group began to disburse Eemz and I switch to another pub called Mollys. Quieter it gave us the opportunity to talk some more.
We werejoined at the other end of the bench table we were sat at by a guy who initially just sat nursing glass of wine. After a while he asked if he could ask us some questions.
It turnec out he was a HR manager for a large clothing retail chain tasked with writing a policy document onhow staffshould deal withTrans/CD customers. It seems a rival had failed a customer, been sued and paid out big money compensation.
We must have talked for an hour, him complementing us both on being so brave in getting out. His one big question was, what's the one thing of greatest importance to us when we look to try things on, apart from not being directed to the mens changing rooms.
Well both Eemz and I were flagging a bit, it was now 1 o'clock, I faced a 90 minute drive home so we made our excuses and left.
Eemz and I vowed to stay in touch, hugged and went our separate ways. Another good day.