Freaking the mundanes

[Adriana Rose]

I wore fairy wings to mine. It was lots of fun

[Merlin the Elder]

I wore fairy wings to mine. It was lots of fun

Now that would have been a hit at my high school prom (NOT!). I wasn't allowed to go to my prom. It was a Catholic all boys school, and you had to take someone from the corresponding all girls Catholic high school. I was already dating the pagan, nee Methodist, that I'm still with today. In my next life, I think I'll start the Druid High School. That would freak the `danes!

[Nighthawk]

I wore fairy wings to mine. It was lots of fun

Now that would have been a hit at my high school prom (NOT!). I wasn't allowed to go to my prom. It was a Catholic all boys school, and you had to take someone from the corresponding all girls Catholic high school. I was already dating the pagan, nee Methodist, that I'm still with today. In my next life, I think I'll start the Druid High School. That would freak the `danes!

I feel your pain... I went to Regis Jesuit high school. We were allowed to take girls from St. Mary's Academy or sisters of Regis students. Honestly, that was fine by me... Repressed Catholic school girls were fun when they got even a hint of freedom!   Not only am I pagan, I'm a metalhead. Go to a Jesuit school wearing an Iron Maiden tour shirt, and MAN, do the lay people freak out!! The Jesuit priests, on the other hand... half of them were closet Maiden fans, so I made friends with lots of priests- Father Harrison being the most interesting!

So back on topic- I wasn't even in garb! I was just wearing a kilt, a black button down collared shirt, black work boots, kilt hose, sporran... and a Sport Kilt noggin wrap. I decided to go to Georgetown, Colorado for a ride on the Georgetown Loop railroad. I got on the train and a little boy asked me "Are you a pirate?" Usually when I'm out and about kilted and get asked a question of some type, I have a good answer handy. That one took me by surprise. I asked him why he thought I was a pirate, and he pointed to my head and said "Pirates wear those!" Didn't even notice the kilt, which I got a chuckle out of. What I thought was the most obvious part of my clothing this kid missed, and he latched onto what I thought was the most normal!

[Adriana Rose]

If it makes ys feel better my little boy always pretends that the giant car carts at the grocery store is a pirate ship. He yells ARRRRRR at anyone who gets in front of us lol

[Meagan]

My daughter, who is a cat because the cat fairy gave her tea at the tea party at Sherwood, likes to loudly meow at people. She also randomly talks about her wings, which are pink.   

[Nighthawk]

If it makes ys feel better my little boy always pretends that the giant car carts at the grocery store is a pirate ship. He yells ARRRRRR at anyone who gets in front of us lol

My daughter, who is a cat because the cat fairy gave her tea at the tea party at Sherwood, likes to loudly meow at people. She also randomly talks about her wings, which are pink.   

[LadyStitch]

This past weekend we had a couple friends of our we rarely see with us.  We had loads of fun.   
The husband kept giving me funny looks when I kept asking the PP if he needed his head sink. The PP responded with "Non, I'm fine."  Finally after about 3 hours, the husband pulled me aside.
"I need to you to explain this to me, when I picture a heat sink, I picture one thing. What the 'hello' are you talking about?"  btw the husband is a hardware engineer.
I simply told him, "The heat sink is a container" showed him my metal cigar tube, "that is made from a head conducting material, filled with a cooling agent, in this instance ice cubes. It is suspended..." I inserted it between my cleaveage. "so that it over the central fluid pump.  This allows the interior fluid to have the heat pulled away, leaving the fluid cooler, and since it is over the central pump, the cooled fluid is spread through out the entire unit."  I waved my hands dramically. " That is why I call it a heat sink. Am I using the term improperly?"  I smiled up at him.
He laughed and said," No, that is a perfect defintion of a heat sink, and sounds like it does it's job proper."  We then walked on. Soon as he took a drink of water, I looked over at him and said, "Besides, how else are you going to describe to a mundane person that you stick a cigar tube full  down you cleaveage to either cool you off or heat up your whiskey?"   He did a spit take. 

[Merlin the Elder]

heheh..that's funny, Stitch!  Heat sink is quite accurate. I've built enough electronics to totally get that reference.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

lets see i stopped at so many places on the way to Garf Saturday.
Bojangles looked at me like i was crazy ofcourse i nearly drove off and left the food
then the gas station boy poor thing was baffled at me
everyone in mcd's thought we were a strange group
ofcourse cracker barrel wasn't much better everyone looked at us like we were from some far side of the galaxy except the cashier who got the whole ren fest thing

[iain robb]

ofcourse cracker barrel wasn't much better everyone looked at us like we were from some far side of the galaxy except the cashier who got the whole ren fest thing

LOL. I remember stopping by a Cracker Barrel outside Jacksonville, Florida, after the Highland Games near there, with an entire pipe band. Some people had looks on their faces as if aliens had just taken over the place.

[Jade Sapphire Emerald]

The day Davens and myself got engaged (at faire, of course) we went to Carabbas for dinner right after closing. The wait staff loved us. The customers thought we might be part of a show that Carabbas was going to put on.

To make it even better, one of my favorite customers that I was able to actually talk to as a person and not as a "Welcome to Bakery" robot walked past and he barely recognized me. When he did, he was like, "Oh! Wow! Talk about a change in appearance! But, why are you dressed like that..." (He and I talk nerd...his name is Kirk so I always called him Capt Kirk and we'd get into big sci fi discussions...he had no idea the faire was going on...made me laugh.)

[DonaCatalina]

After seven weeks the girl in the drive thru bakery finally got the courage to ask where we are going in such fancy clothes at 6:45am. She thought it was a wedding until we kept showing up every Saturday.

[Merlin the Elder]

You should have just said..."they'll get it right eventually..."

[GirlChris]

The day of the royal wedding I did an educational show in a small town that had been hit by an almost-hurricane the day before. Nearly the entire town was at the Tim Hortons, because power was out most other places. I went in for the morning coffee run wearing a floor length tunic and a cloak. Everyone thought I had dressed up to watch the royal wedding on TV.

[DonaCatalina]

After seven weeks the girl in the drive thru bakery finally got the courage to ask where we are going in such fancy clothes at 6:45am. She thought it was a wedding until we kept showing up every Saturday.

This Saturday they asked if we had any free tickets to the "play".