As I mentioned in my live blog on Halloween, I stopped at a gas station to fill up before I drove to work.
“I went to the gas station I normally go to. There were no other customers, so I pulled up to the gas pump I usually use, filled up and walked inside to pay up.
“The woman who runs the place recognized my car, so she knew who I was underneath my feminine finery, but she said I looked ‘spectacular’ and that she would date me!”
So on Saturday, I returned to the gas station for my car’s weekly fill-up and touched base with the woman who runs the place.
She said she did recognize my car when I pulled up to the pump, but she did not recognize the woman driving it! She assumed someone else was driving my car.
While I was pumping gas, I waved to her and she thought that I looked familiar, but she was clueless until went inside to pay up and asked, “Do you know who I am?”
Only then did she figure me out.
On Saturday, she again praised me for my “costume,” asked how my feet put up with heels all day long and added that I could get a job as a drag queen in Kinky Boots!
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| Wearing Veronica Beard. |
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| Dale Carmen femulates on stage in The Silver Cord (2013). |
Stana, you do not do drag, Stan does drab when you dress as him....
ReplyDeleteBingo!
DeleteA job as a drag queen? that's almost an insult
ReplyDeleteI don't believe she was insulting me. I think she thought I looked so good that I could be a professional femulator, but she probably isn't familiar with the term "professional femulator," so she used a term that she was familiar with (drag queen) without its negative connotations.
DeleteShe meant it as a compliment, I'm sure. The uninitiated can only relate to what we do in terms they understand. The few friends with whom I have shared photos of Julie usually share the same initial reaction - laughter. They go on to tell me how good I look, how nice my legs are, and the usual "how can you walk in those heels?" (if the person is a woman I throw the last question back at them). My other favorite is when a woman friend admires Julie in person and ask if they can touch my breasts. I tell them, "Turnabout is fair play"!
ReplyDeleteI love your"turnabout" reply! I will have to remember that.
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