Pirates Of The Mississippian?

[Horsetuna]

I havent' had any anti-comments, unless you count my Boss From Hell who was ageist/sexist against me for being the youngest woman in the kitchen, but since he didnt really say anything about my age/looks it doesnt matter.

When Iw as a dealer though, my Witch Lock (a stripe of natural grey hair) got lots of comments, most of them though were good natured. People swore it was fake but I'd say it was real and it was cause I dealt with them (they laughed most of the time).

Since I cut my hair you can't tell as much. I need to grow it out again.

[Mark Healey]

Noelegy, one of my favorite places to shop is Half Price Books (if you're familair)and one of the reasons I love the place is that their employees are very unconventional looking.
They always wear T-shirts and jeans, some have piercings, some have tattoos, some have wildly-colored hair, some have a combination of all three, and some don't have any.

Normal people aren't booksellers. I should know I've been one for something like 10 years.

[Worker-Intellectual]

The worst is people telling me God feels bad for me, why do I want to cover up what God gave me, why can't I be natural....blah blah blah blah...

I have a feeling these are the same people who would be pissed off if you showed off "what God gave you"

I've had people make fun of my long hair, compare my appearance to Napoleon Dynamite, or screw up the gender (even if I hadn't shaved for over a week). The first two I can kinda see, but I don't know how they managed the third one...

[sarahj]

One customer I had was around 3 or 4am on a very dead overnight shift. She ordered a burger, and I offered her the meal deal, but she said "just the burger, and I want it fresh, not sitting there for hours like your face." OMG. To be fair, I never wear make-up to work, cos "they don't pay me enough to look pretty." Clean, yes; pretty, no. But I was rather insulted and when she showed up at the same time the next day, we had a security guard who told her to leave.

On a side note, she was barefoot in the middle of the city, and looked like she needed a good hour-long shower, which is saying something cos of the country's drought...

[Lace Neil Singer]

While I was at the country park, I used to bleach my hair blonde; once, after the New Year's party (it was fancy dress and I went as a punk... of course, with hot pink hair) I was doing the dray rides (sitting on the back doing the tour and collecting money); when I got back, I found out from my boss that someone had tried to complain about my hair to him. He'd just told the stupid woman that until my hair colour physically stopped me from doing my job, I could dye my hair any colour I liked. That was then I started dying my hair different colours; I only stopped soon after I started working at the supermarket cuz I fancied a change and started having hair like Rogue instead. At the garden centre, no-one cared what colour my hair was as long as I did my job. Dunno why people feel the need to complain about things like that.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Normal people aren't booksellers. I should know I've been one for something like 10 years.

Hey! I'm a bookseller! I'm.....normal....um, ....ok, never mind.

I look normal anyway...

[technical.angel]

The worst is people telling me God feels bad for me, why do I want to cover up what God gave me, why can't I be natural....blah blah blah blah...

Well, hon, if you didn't wear make-up, then you'd be attacked by those saying "You'd look so much prettier if you wore make-up!"

First - Ick. When I worked at Claires, my idea of "make-up" was attacking myself with the hair glitter. (though, usually just on Fridays and Saturdays... I sold a lot of hair glitter!)

Second - If I put any on, it's going to be spread across my entire face in no time flat. Then it'll be in my eyes, and under my contacts, and no one wants that.

Jenni, the owner of all kinds of clearanced Claires make-up!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

""Oh, you're putting them into the freezer, I thought that was your lunch!" Then she laughed."

Okay, this sort of nonsense, along with Arenaboy's comments about idiot people who like to pretend they think a man is a woman because his hair is long, really, truly send me around the bend.

I call people on this sort of crap. Every time. "Really? You really did think that was my lunch?" Complete look of serious suprise. I hold onto it like Grim Death, too. "No, seriously....have you seen someone eat a cartful of ice cream for lunch? Wow. Who? Could they keep it all down? You thought I was going to sit down in the middle of the aisle and start eating this stuff right here?" I've done it. To customers at Kinkos, even. One nimrod tried the snotty "Oh, I THOUGHT you WORKED here." on me when I didn't answer a question to His Majesty's satisfaction. I kept on this guy, in front of his snickering buddies. "Oh, of course I do. You thought right. Um..." (insert confused look) "Sooo....what, you think I don't now? Did something happen to make you think I was not an employee?" (insert looking down at my uniform and apron and nametag) "Hmmm....I am obviously dressed like I work here, right? No, really, right? Did you think I was wearing a costume?" keeping my voice polite, alarmed, and very concerned the entire time. Usually this tact sends them packing.

They hate my guts, but they STFU.

As for these idiots who like to pretend they can't tell a woman from a man from any other cue than their hair style, these people need a good hard slap. Why would anyone want to give the impression that they were that much of an idiot? Hell, I've called my own grandmother on this shit. "Really, Nanna? You thought that 6 foot tall, 250 pound bearded man was a lady? You really thought that? Don't be silly."

We used to get that about my husband, who until fairly recently had long, black, super curly hair. Georgeous. My husband is also 6'3", very broad-shouldered, and manly. He does NOT look like a chick. Maybe that's why it pisses me off.

I want to say to them (maybe I SHOULD say to them) "Look, you aren't fooling anyone. Nobody believes that you actually thought this guy was a chick. If you MUST comment on it, stop being so fking passive agressive and just say what you mean. Either that, or shut the fk up!"

The only time it DOESN'T piss me off is when it happens to my friend Ivar. Ivar is pretty. He looks like a chick.

[ArenaBoy]

Hell, I've called my own grandmother on this shit. "Really, Nanna? You thought that 6 foot tall, 250 pound bearded man was a lady? You really thought that? Don't be silly."

Sounds like your grandmother and my late-great grandmother would make a perfect pair, she did this to anyone and the guy could be butt naked and hairy as hell.

We used to get that about my husband, who until fairly recently had long, black, super curly hair. Georgeous. My husband is also 6'3", very broad-shouldered, and manly. He does NOT look like a chick. Maybe that's why it pisses me off.

For the physical part of it, I will admit that I am not exactly like your husband. I am 6'2, and very skinny weighing in at 165, so obvious mistakes can be made. I am stronger than I look (6 years of martial arts and running helps.) I had people mistake me by accident and apologize to me for their mistake which I understand as it's happened to me before. It's just the idiots who know and will go and blatantly insult someone because of their looks. To me, it reeks of a closed mind. That idiot at the record shop who told me to get a haircut on his bag was cause for me to no longer shop there. The place has kind of lost it's quality anyway.

The first was an Indian lady (Asian Indian) who saw the earring and asked me if I was waiting for a holy day.

I just kinda shook my head and she didn't pursue it any further, though she had a bit of a smirk on her face.

Best response would have to be: "Yes, and on this holy day we observe the gods who smite nosy bastards like you."

[blas]

And to think, those stupid, stupid, stupid old bitties think that they look SO good with their blue perms and SHAVED OFF AND DRAWN ON (horribly I might add) BLUE EYEBROWS!

Like the little old ladies that used to ride the bus when I was a kid. Always making fun of someone with tattoos or piercings or "odd" hair....hell, at least these women didn't shave off their eyebrows and pencil them in (horribly) with BLUE eyepencil.

Nothing offensive meant by the blue hair....I think it's cool on younger people. We do it on purpose. Little old ladies fail to realize that their perms are BLUE and they look dreadful!

[MystyGlyttyr]

I always sort of dug the color that "blue-hairs" would get from their perms. Thought it was kind of cool.

Now, I'll admit that I sometimes have trouble telling people apart. I'm talking serious trouble. I could (and do) confuse a 6'4", 290 pound man in a leather vest with a 4'7", 150 pound man in a suit and tie. There were two girls on my basketball team that looked nothing alike aside from having straight dark hair and it took me months to be able to tell them apart. I've even sometimes confused white people and black people, which led to no end of amusement on the part of the people involved, let me tell you. And while so far I have never confused a man and a woman, I wouldn't be hard-pressed to imagine myself doing it.

I don't know why I have so much diffeculty with it, I really don't. I can tell four solid black cats apart with no problem but people mess me up. I can describe how a person looks, but ask me to identify who they are and I'm a total blank. It's not that I don't even remember their names...I KNOW what the available names are, I just can't match them to their owners and sometimes, if given a physical description, can't properly match it to IT'S owner. It's just hard to explain but MAN, people are confusing

[blas]

Im horrible with names, especially if I meet a lot of new people at once. At my birthday party, I met nearly 30 people and didn't remember anyone's name. To be honest, to me, they were "the chick with the nose piercings" "the short guy" "the redheaded chick" "that fat guy" and "that gangster kid" and "the girl with the black and pink pants"

Forgive me about the blue haired old ladies. I just can't fathom why an old lady that looks that silly would dare to call me funny looking, especially when I know how to apply makeup, and I can color and contour my eyebrows without shaving them off and drawing them on.

I get a bit angry over the whole "pot calling the kettle black" or however that silly saying goes.

[Noelegy]

Noelegy, one of my favorite places to shop is Half Price Books (if you're familair)and one of the reasons I love the place is that their employees are very unconventional looking.
They always wear T-shirts and jeans, some have piercings, some have tattoos, some have wildly-colored hair, some have a combination of all three, and some don't have any.
It's real.
And though I have none of the above myself, I feel at ease with them because they are allowed to be themselves. Plus, they're really cool people. I don't strike up conversations with just any retail folk, but I find myself engaged in talks with Half Price Books employees quite a bit.

It's amazing that someone's personal insecurities would make them actually complain about something like a nose ring. How miserable must someone be-?

Yes, we have Half Price where I live too. They are cool, but I can't say I've ever noticed the appearance of the employees. I guess that sort of thing just flies right under my radar, unless I notice a tattoo that I have to comment upon.

I once embarrassed my husband just the tiniest bit when we were shopping for a grill at Home Depot, and because the employee had to get up on the ladder to get our grill down, and he had on shorts, I noticed the exquisitely detailed red and green Celtic cross he had on his calf. All my tats are Celtic knotwork, and by the time my husband had come back (we'd both gone to ask for assistance, and I'd encountered someone first), I was engaged in conversation with the employee about tattoos. I was wearing capri pants that day, and had rolled them up to show the hand-sized Claddagh on my leg.

I don't comment on a tattoo unless I have something positive to say (as in, I'm impressed with the imagery or detail, as I was with the HD guy). Like you, I can't imagine that someone would go out of their way to get a store employee in trouble (why complain to corporate? Why not just have a word with the store manager or manager on duty, who could then have addressed the girl's nose ring with her privately?).

There are plenty of damngoofy looking people out there in public, without the least little "unconventional" detail to their appearance, and they probably shouldn't throw stones. My mom and I used to get a kick out of going shopping at Wal-Mart and seeing how people would dress to go shopping (this was in the days before there was a Wal-Mart in every wide spot in the road).

[RecoveringKinkoid]

"For the physical part of it, I will admit that I am not exactly like your husband. I am 6'2, and very skinny weighing in at 165, so obvious mistakes can be made."

You may be closer than you think. When we got married, he weighted 160 pounds. He's about 10-15 pounds heavier now at 43. But with his shoulders, muscular legs, and big hands, he does not look anything like a female. Actually, before he cut his hair, he looked quite a bit like Slash.

Slash doesn't look like a chick.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Slash is sexy. Yeah, I know that's offtopic, but what the hell. XD