Gender Bending and Free Candy! (3 storys)

[Gravekeeper]

Some guys have a fetish for ugly.

I've learned its best to just keep my hair buzzed down. If its long I'm an ugly chick. If its medium length I'm Jim Carrey ( ...seriously....I was told that. by the girl at the bank no less. "Why'd you cut it? You looked like Jim Carrey!" ).

If its buzzed short people just shy away from me on the Skytrain. ;p

....or ask me directions because I'm wearing glasses. THEN shy away.

[Tigress]

Ugh, solicitors. I hate solicitors. I don't understand why anyone even tries. Its aggravating as hell. Like having an infomercial that just bursts into your workplace. Not even telemarketing can match it.

I've occasionally gotten suckered into interviewing with places that hire these people and I can understand why they try so hard. They literally brainwash people into thinking that they'll make tons of money for just a few hours of work a day. If they just buy this "starter kit", they'll see just how much money is to be made.

Most of the people they attract can't really afford to buy the "starter kit" and often go into (further) debt trying to get started. Eventually, these people are usually so deep into the "sales system" that they pretty much have to push these things as hard as they can to get their money back and/or turn some kind of profit.

[Rahmota]

Azu: heheh thats okay about the pictures. Around here its sort of a tradition/runinng joke to ask for pictures in certain circumstances.

And don't feel bad me and a friend went to a car dealership for him to look at a car one day and since I was dressed up slightly and he was dressed kinda down slightly the car salesman mistook me for his dad. Whats really sad is my friend is only a couple years younger than i am.....

Oh and when i say dressed up slightly I mean Starting at the top down: Bowler Hat, High Wing Collar with Black tie, Black long coat, vest, black dress slacks and black wingtip shoes. Basically your average edwardian era gentleman and yes I am trying to let my moustache grow long enough I can curl it into a handlebar....

Tigress: yes I ahve run across those places before as well. They always try to get a person to make an "investment in the company and your financial future" and blah blah blah.

[Polenicus]

Some people are unobservant. Fantastically, amazingly unobservant.

I have been called 'Ma'am' before.

I have:

1. A THICK beard
2. Thinning hair
3. A deep voice

So, unless you're pegging me for some pre-op transsexual that just isn't trying very hard, I dunno how you do that. But they did. They had just done their 'female customer' spiel too many times, and slipped into it, rather than the 'male customer' spiel.