Freaking the mundanes

[maeven]

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". 

How funny!

[Knitting_Dragon]

Rani,
You made remember my Walmart story! This year my daughter, her fiancee, and I put on our pirate garb to visit AZ Ren Fest. We needed some sundries from Walmart, so we stopped in. I was looking for my goodies when a customer walked up to me and said "Do you work here?" I was speechless! So , now Walmart employees dress in pirate garb!? OY!

Still haven't finished reading the whole thread but I just had to comment. When I worked at walmart (Before the khaki and blue polo became norm) I would go to WORK in my garb. Blue apron over it but still. Helped that I worked Fabric and Crafts.

[Francisco Paula]

I know this is about freaking the mundanes but i do have to say i enjoyed faire last year freaking out my faire friends.

I came as a giant pink fairy with pig tails and didn't shave my goatee.

I would post a picture but to many has seen it and i have pending suits about blinding people at the moment. 

[Knitting_Dragon]

Okay, now that I have finished!

I started making my garb at 12. Throughout Jr high and high school I regularly wore my garb to school. Most teachers loved me. Subs were weirded out by me till they knew me. Classmates. . . it was interesting.

One set of girls were complaining about my wench costume being distracting. Now, when I went to school I was covered from wrist to ankle and flat chested though I was, I still pulled the neckline to 'modest heights'. The principle found it humorous. Why? Because he was a rennie too! He found no fault with my garb. The girls on the other hand got into trouble. It was January in Nebraska and they were wearing sockless shoes, short skirts and midriff baring tops. They were sent home to change and assigned a five page report on proper winter attire.

After I graduated I still would go out for no real reason wearing my garb and do my daily whatever. Shopping, local stores not only got use to me but were disappointed when I was dressed out of garb.

My favorite reactions tend to be those who asked why I was dressed this way or those who asked who I was. I usually replied "Because this is my fashion." or "This is me?"

I have had many people take my pics. Specially when I was dressed as a fairy with whole black eyes. (no whites, no pupils)  Though when dressed up I try not to scare the kids. Adults are a different story.

[Lord Red Beard]

While I have enjoyed many, many times of "freakin' out the mundanes", when I wear The Kilt to weddings, funerals and of course on my way to and from Ren-Fests, I recall returning from a WWII event, in which we're in our VW Kubelwagens, and were stopped on the side of the road, re-fueling one of the vehicles, and a Officer of the Law, stops and asks us "Where was the Guard meetings at???", and we all look at the other, in our khaki Afrika Korps uniforms, and plainly stated, "Bastrop"...to which he says "Oh! ! !  WOW ! ! I bet ya'll had fun" ~ ~ ~ ~ and then he drives away ~ ~ ~ ~ "go figure"

[balletboot]

Okay, now that I have finished!

I started making my garb at 12. Throughout Jr high and high school I regularly wore my garb to school. Most teachers loved me. Subs were weirded out by me till they knew me. Classmates. . . it was interesting.

One set of girls were complaining about my wench costume being distracting. Now, when I went to school I was covered from wrist to ankle and flat chested though I was, I still pulled the neckline to 'modest heights'. The principle found it humorous. Why? Because he was a rennie too! He found no fault with my garb. The girls on the other hand got into trouble. It was January in Nebraska and they were wearing sockless shoes, short skirts and midriff baring tops. They were sent home to change and assigned a five page report on proper winter attire.

After I graduated I still would go out for no real reason wearing my garb and do my daily whatever. Shopping, local stores not only got use to me but were disappointed when I was dressed out of garb.

My favorite reactions tend to be those who asked why I was dressed this way or those who asked who I was. I usually replied "Because this is my fashion." or "This is me?"

I have had many people take my pics. Specially when I was dressed as a fairy with whole black eyes. (no whites, no pupils)  Though when dressed up I try not to scare the kids. Adults are a different story.

I have to say, this is really ridiculously cool. I've never even thought of wearing garb outside of faire days (well -- besides that one time when I decided to 'waist train' when I was 14 with a faire corset), but it sounds like a great idea haha.

[DonaCatalina]

Since we rarely go to SCA events anymore, I don't get to freak many mundanes. The people in Waxahachie have gotten used to us.

[Merlin the Elder]

I'm hoping to freak some invited mundanes in about 3 weeks...might mess with a few Rennies as well...

One of the things I told the `danes regarding the pre-cannon tailgate was, "...if you don't know what pre-cannon means, you will post-cannon." I think they are still scratching their heads...

[DonaCatalina]

did they git Edumacated?

[Merlin the Elder]

You know, in all the excitement, I forgot to ask, and I wasn't standing with them when the cannon went off.  I do know all of the `danes at the gathering had a good time.

[Dinobabe]

OK, OK I'll take the plunge.   I'm sure there are others wondering and just too scared to ask!   Since I was always on the inside with grandma's shop I never did pre-cannon.  Will someone clue me (us) in?

[Merlin the Elder]

Well, in our case, the pre-cannon tailgate is a major social event in and of itself, but I was referring to scaring the groundwater out of an unsuspecting `dane when the cannon fired.

If you have never been to Scarborough, the cannon fires from just above the Friends of Faire entrance.

[Dinobabe]

OK, I gotcha!  Of course, being a Civil War reenactor (cannoneer) the guns don't bother me one bit!!!

[Queen Bonnie]

 I know it is coming- but I always still jump when cannon goes off.
Eyes kind of pop when we stop at a convenience store to use the rest room - in full garb. Of course in Waco they knew where we were going! If anyone asks- I always say a football game.

[dbaldock]

I know it is coming- but I always still jump when cannon goes off.
Eyes kind of pop when we stop at a convenience store to use the rest room - in full garb. Of course in Waco they knew where we were going! If anyone asks- I always say a football game.

  Ha!    

That caused my first good laugh of the day...