Freaking the mundanes

[LadyElizabeth]

So this year at Scarby, we stayed at my moms house about 1hr north of the faire.  She works at a hospital and wanted us to come by and meet her new co-workers there before heading down to fair (we also had to drop off her house key).  This day my twin sister and I dressed in our fairy garb with our giant wings and all on...  Upon entering the front we were stopped by the front desk and given directions to the childrens floor at which we said we were actually just there to see our mom.  Quite a few times though we saw children around the hospital and their parents proceeded to explain to them that we were real fairies and a few asked for pics with us....  No one seemed all that surprised even and every just played along like we were supposed to be in garb at a hospital... THAT was VERY weird for sure!!!

[justsomeguytn]

That would have been awesome if it was a different sort of hospital.   

[LadyElizabeth]

I just thought of another one.. so many you know!

This past weekend we were at LARF and a few of us wanted to go out to dinner.  My sister and I had already changed into our belly dancer garb and really had nothing else to wear anyhow, so we went to dinner in that.  When we got there, we went straight to the restrooms and as we were leaving there were 3 16 year old girls coming in with very fancy dresses on.  The looks on their faces was priceless... I swear we caused some of them to pee their pants.  Upon leaving, we heard someone talking about prom and so it all clicked for us. These poor girls were out at their nicest local restaurant and just couldn't figure out what these jingling strange woman were doing there also!!!  When we left, we also had the WHOLE restaurant staring at us with quite horrified looks.  Oh and on another note, our waitress was a hoot.  She was probably 18 or so, and we were trying to explain our garb to her, that in the evening we like to dress a little more bawdy than during the day... She was so confused and said "what's bawdy?"  So we said it's like "it's like risque"... she said "I don't know what risque is"... then the 4 of us start blurting out all the synoyms we could think of  "lewd, vulgar, raunchy..."  and she still is standing there with this puzzled look...  We gave up at that point!!!  We held back from telling her to try reading sometime, it might do her some good, what DO they teach kids these days??

[Bonny Pearl]

I just thought of another one.. so many you know!

This past weekend we were at LARF and a few of us wanted to go out to dinner.  My sister and I had already changed into our belly dancer garb and really had nothing else to wear anyhow, so we went to dinner in that.  When we got there, we went straight to the restrooms and as we were leaving there were 3 16 year old girls coming in with very fancy dresses on.  The looks on their faces was priceless... I swear we caused some of them to pee their pants.  Upon leaving, we heard someone talking about prom and so it all clicked for us. These poor girls were out at their nicest local restaurant and just couldn't figure out what these jingling strange woman were doing there also!!!  When we left, we also had the WHOLE restaurant staring at us with quite horrified looks.  Oh and on another note, our waitress was a hoot.  She was probably 18 or so, and we were trying to explain our garb to her, that in the evening we like to dress a little more bawdy than during the day... She was so confused and said "what's bawdy?"  So we said it's like "it's like risque"... she said "I don't know what risque is"... then the 4 of us start blurting out all the synoyms we could think of  "lewd, vulgar, raunchy..."  and she still is standing there with this puzzled look...  We gave up at that point!!!  We held back from telling her to try reading sometime, it might do her some good, what DO they teach kids these days??

you should have just started singing that c/w tune "i like my women a little on the trashy side" and she probably would have gotten it, lol!  poor kid.

[Adriana Rose]

My funniest Mundane shock was after the Ravenshire festival this summer, My little boy, my sweetie and his workers went to the local McD's and it was like 10 so the place was empty minus the workers.. In come 4 pirates, my self in my tamer wench, and the moster in his mini pirate outfit complete with little sash and tail..
Let the gwaking ensue...

The guys were feeling frisky and I was beat, the next thing I know my sweetie was saying something about period porn and yanked my skirts above my ankles.. The workers just about whipped out their phones to take a picture!

Goog times!

[LadyElizabeth]

LOL, I'm serious laughing histerically under my breath while here at work... I can only imagine what those teenagers "thought" they were going to get to see...

But seriously, at fair when I'm in my QE1 garb and my shoe gets undone, I've had guys fight over who gets to do it up...  I'm wearing bloomers and thigh high socks, so it's not like they are going to get a show down there, yet they act like they're seeing something naughty, a Queens ankle...  Isn't it weird sometimes just HOW into fair we all get and begin to think like they did back then??

[Lady Toadflinger]

Three of us were on our way to a small Faire, and decided to stop at Safeway for some snacks. We were in Pirate garb and got quite a few looks. When someone stopped and asked what were dressed up for, my daughter's fiancee , with a perfectly offended look on his face, said , " I don't know what you mean, we are just taking the ship out for a sail around the bay!" and walked off. (of course there IS no "bay" anywhere near here!)

[Blushing]

Once upon a faire ... I needed to pick up some treats at Sam's Club and was also running late.  So I go running through the store, grab the goodies and race to registers to check out, then I go racing back to my car.  All in FULL and LACED wench garb.

Yeah ... I was getting more than a few odd looks!  But in hindsight ... I might have provided interesting entertainment.

[LadyElizabeth]

"jog jog, jiggle jiggle".... hehe!

[Ginette]

I guess I'm to new of a Rennie to have great stories like everyone's.  I'm hoping to have some great stories though. 

Thank you all for sharing!!

[Codi Lyn]

Here's one I just did - freaking Danes while dressed as one.

Most who know me, know of my Didgerido distraction. I was walking through a relatively empty Home Depot the other night. As I walked past the pvc pipe section, I noticed the 2" diameter pvc pipes where about shoulder level with me...

looking around to be sure the coast was clear, I pulled one of the long sections of pipe out toward me a bit...and proceeded to blow a deep drone on it!

It was surprisingly loud & echoed a bit in the store! So I slipped it back and ducked around the corner and waited. Nothing. So I peek back out...nothing's happening...so back I go and do it again. This time I did some cheek popping and a few vocals before seeing some sales associates walking around - looking, trying to find the sound. I played like I was looking at the pipe as they passed...and just as they passed the end of the pipe - I fired off a nice, loud drone and bark!

I thought they were going to jump out of their skin!!! We all got a huge laugh out of it.

I just snorted biscuit. That was hilarious and I'd a been doin' it with you had we been together. ^_^

~ Codi Lyn

[Carl Heinz]

Well, the range has been from mothers grabbing their kids and muttering about gypsies to free dinners at a restaurant.

On the topic of being asked whether you're going to faire, please respond with a yes and ask whether you'll be seeing them there.  The event can use all the admissions it can get.

I keep adding to my list of businesses which are willing to put a poster in their windows and/or are willing to display rack cards/coupons for the event.  We've got to keep our faires healthy so that we continue to have playpens.

[Peddlin]

Generally, if I am in garb in the mundane world, and someone asks me what I am dressed up for, I will give them a confused look, like I don't understand what they are talking about, and say something catchy like, "It's Saturday". 

[Sir William Marcus]

Really Freaking the Mundanes

Unfortunately for us (and its really sad) when we are wearing our Templar knight robes or surcoats out in the general public we are usually asked on occasion if we are the Ku Klux Klan. Not to mention the confusion, double takes, and not-so-pleasant looks we receive from people of a different race.

There was even a time I was standing in MY garage (former neighborhood) with my surcoat on awaiting for the rest of my family to get ready as we were planning to attend our local faire.  While standing in the garage a mini van full of people of a different race drove by and saw me standing in the front of the garage. They immediately slowed way down, and drove by starring at me as if they saw a ghost! 

They immediately drove around the neighborhood and passed by again.  I actually didn't make the connection at first, and then it dawned on me.  During their second pass is when I waved at them with my helm in the other hand and I believe at that point I think they realized that it was a false alarm.

Then again, I wasn't 100% sure if they realized that I wasn't who they thought I was, and as sad as it is, believe it or not,  anticipated some acts of vandalism to my property.  It never happened.

Bottom line now is, we don't put our surcoats & robes on now till we are on the faire grounds. 

I have had to result in re-educating people on many of occasion. Not to mention the over abundance of ignorance that goes with it. 

Sad but true

[LadyElizabeth]

You know, I kind of do see the resemblance, but since when did KKK members wear those robes in PUBLIC???  It makes you wonder if maybe the original KKK took their design from the Templars due to the similarity?