Freaking the mundanes

[Sir Michael Geare]

For my seventeenth birthday my dad and I went to Scarby. It was the first time to wear garb for the both of us, mom refused to wear garb so she wasn't invited, same with my little brother. For dinner that evening we went to Medieval times. AFTER the show, this rather large group of mundanes saw us and got all excited and were like "hey, can we take a picture witchu?" We did. Turns out they thought we were in the show...

I had a similar situation happen to me except that it was a bit more ackward.  I work the RPFS here and with my other duties, still help out with the joust on ocassions.  A friend of mine was having a birthday and they wanted to go to Medieval Times so a bunch of us who also worked faire went in out outfits.  We had a few pics taken of us but the kicker was after the show.  We went to hang out a bit at the bar when one of the knights called me over and said that he knew me.  He said he recognized me at the joust when he went to the faire.  He, the knight, than proceeded to ask me and my friends to take a picture with him.  How is that for reverse roles.

[Tammy]

But, that's really awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[squiregaby]

Ironically....some of my friends and I are going to Medieval Times on friday night....all seven of us will be in garb.  I'll be sure to post any stories we get!

[joan of arc]

Somehow, I am sure you will get stories...

Ironically....some of my friends and I are going to Medieval Times on friday night....all seven of us will be in garb.  I'll be sure to post any stories we get!

[squiregaby]

We had dozens of people ask us if we worked there.  It was great!   Also...while there I met a fellow rennie.  Potentially going back this friday also with my mother for her birthday.  More details to come!!!

[Seleyna Eirian]

The very first time that I was going to go to faire in garb was with my best friend Marti, back in 2007. We were on our way to ORF, and decided to stop at Walmart first to get some tights (because we ladies know how much chaffing hurts!). We were ready to go in our corsets and skirts, and as we were leaving, this little girl-- she couldn't have been any older than 6 or 7, looked up at her father and said, "Daddy? Why are they dressed so funny?" With a full crane of her neck as her father clasped her to him and said, "Don't look at them and just keep walking." It was fairly amusing. It was almost as if he was terrified that he was going to catch something contagious..

And then the second time was when we were leaving KHRF back in 2008. There had been a HUGE storm that knocked out most of the power in Kentucky. We were all starved (my friend Marti, her pirate and I this time), and were looking EVERYWHERE on the way home for some place that had power and was open (we live in Cincinnati). On I-75, it looked as if Ruby Tuesdays was the only place open! So we pulled in, almost walked in with our weapons, even though they were still peace-tied, left those in the car, bandanas, corsets, and tails all still in place. There was a wait, and there were quite a few older folk there who seemed to shrink as we got closer. Quite entertaining actually. We waited for a few minutes and then we were seated-- and if you've EVER worked in a restaurant before, you know that when someone strange or different comes in, you send EVERYONE out to walk past their table. The three of us are/were servers. We were laughing amongst ourselves as kitchen crew popped their heads out from the door, bartenders were straining their necks, and servers and bussers kept sweeping by. The family next to us was the most amusing though. They ate their food as slowly as they possibly could (they'd been there a while already), ordered dessert and whatnot just so that way they would finish when we did. When we finished, we paid and tipped (well of course), and walked out the door. The family was waiting outside and asked us the usual, "Are you in a play?" when we responded, "Nope! Just heading home from the Kentucky Renaissance Festival! You should go check it out if you live near here!" And of course, pictures were taken and we piled back into our car and headed back home.

Those two are the most prominent memories for me

[Lady Christina de Pond]

Garf opens in four weeks so ofcourse more freaking the mundane stories but i'm also going with a church group to Medieval times the Sunday before Garf opens and will be the only one dressed up this should be totally interesting to see what happens

[Kate]

We were in St. Augustine Florida for the St Arrgustine pirate Festival last November and staying at the same hotel as a large group of motorcyclists traveling the country.  I'm not sure which group got more looks as we left in the morning, but I know we pirates had MUCH more fun with it than the motorcyle guys!

[amy]

Kate, I had a similar situation at a gas station.  I jumped out to pump in my feathers and hoop and this leather clad warrior eyeballed me up and down like I was an alien.  He asked, "What you dressed up for"... I simply gave him the approving up and down look at his leathers and said "Keeps the road rash down when I slide"   He busted a huge grin.

[bran_gray]

Wife and I just got home from Sherwood last night and can safely say we did our own freaking of the mundanes.

Saturday night we had planned on going home and calling it good but we had so much fun we found a hotel room and proceeded to Wal-Mart for fresh underwear and toiletries.  I don't know which was funnier of the three reactions we got...stopping and staring, completely ignoring, and coming up and telling my wife how pretty she looked in her dress.  We might have actually convinced a couple people to head down to the Faire at their available opportunity 

Then we go to Schlotsky's to get something to eat and we had two reactions at opposite ends of the approval spectrum.  We're walking through the front door and the young lady behind the counter was pointing at us with the biggest grin I've ever seen and said to the man she was ringing up "I told you it wasn't Prom, they're from the renaissance faire!"  After we ordered we sat down about two tables from a man already eating.  He gave our little group the dirtiest look I've ever seen and proceeded to ignore us.  My wife decided she had had enough of her corset and she wanted to breathe so she began to unlace it in the front (she was decently covered underneath) and I thought the man was going to start shooting laser beams from his eyes...but he never looked away the entire time she was unlacing!

[Soracha]

Well one morning before faire my guildmaster asked some guys and I to pick up some groceries. Being already dressed and lazy we decided to go shopping in the supermarket in all of our garb.
The two guys with me were wearing their full military garb and walked around like they were guarding me while shopping.
The stares we got were hilarious.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

i'm tempted in June one day to dress in garb and head to the grocery store for the fun of it

[Ginette]

i'm tempted in June one day to dress in garb and head to the grocery store for the fun of it

Friends and I talk about doing that all the time but someone ends up backing out at the last minute and we haven't done that yet.     Let me know how it works out for you.

[Queen Bonnie]

 Lord A and I went into a supermarket in Hammond LA to buy Scotch in the AM before faire- dressed as wizards. Those people in LA are cool. We got thumbs up. Not to many freaked out. I was disappointed!
This was several years ago.

[Becky10]

Last year when we were leaving for faire we headed out of the house when my sister had to duck in to grab her I.D, so we all waited on the driveway or her. While standing out there a woman was showing a family the house for sale next to us. When the real estate lady got out of her car she practically ran into the house and left the people she was showing it to on the drive. We all smiled politely and did our bows and curtsies...and they continued to just stare at us barely blinking till the agent dragged them into the house. The same thing happened with the same shower but a different family the next weekend and we got a rather large glare from her but a huge smile from the family who asked us if we were in a play or going to a costume party. They moved in 2 weeks later.