quit fucking staring!06:30 Mar 03 2011
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today my hubby, brandon, and i accompanied his parents to his dad's doctors appointment at the v.a. hospital in huntington, west virginia. overall it was a normal, decent - yet slightly boring - trip. we usually go though to get out of the house without using our own gas/gas money & to see different things as we don't usually travel to w.v. ourselves. anyway.. to get to the point of why i am writing about this here...
brandon and i do stick out here in the way we dress/look (brandon a little more than i though). we live in eastern kentucky where the normal fashion for guys is muddy carhartt boots, dirty jeans, a shirt with cut-off sleeves, a dirty baseball cap and a big wad of chew in his mouth (though that isn't to say every guy here looks like that, it's just a basis for what's considered the norm for guys here) and the normal look for girls is tanned to a crisp and, well, about the normal look for most girls anywhere else (again, definitely not every girl fits into that .. just saying it's the norm here). so brandon with his snake bite lip rings, good sized stretched ears and usually spiky or colored hair as well as the occasional fishnets/tripp pants/etc. definitely sticks out. (even more so when he had all of his other piercings.. eye brow, bridge, nose, monroe & labret) i stick out some too with my nose ring, stretched ears & current hair style. but the point of that is that we, especially brandon, draw plenty of stares and comments while out. brandon's dealt with it for years and will just let it go but i find it so pathetic that, when he allows me, i'll say or do something back. *when he allows me!* haha!
so today we were in the v.a. building with brandon's parents and brandon's not dressed "crazy" or anything. black pants, yellow shirt, black workman's jacket and a plain black baseball cap. we're standing by his parents as his dad asks a man where he's suppose to go and i notice an older woman employee (about 60 maybe) sitting on the stool by a stand and she's gawking at brandon like he's standing there with a gun in her face trying to rob her. her eyes got big and would dart back and forth from him to the door and back. all the while he's just standing there normally, not even looking towards her. it just ticks me off yet it's funny at the same time, her terror coming from the only thing out of the ordinary about him today.. his lip rings & stretched ears. so, i start laughing. honest, loud laughing while watching her. when she heard me she looked over at me and she immediately looked back off to the door and didn't look back at us - obviously embarrassed that she was caught & being laughed at for it .. just like most people who we catch in that situation. brandon never even noticed her though and he thought i was laughing about something completely different - good thing, i probably wouldn't have gotten away with it if he'd known at the time, haha.
the slightly ironic & funnier thing is though.. not even 30 seconds later brandon's dad and i were standing in a hallway waiting for him and his mom to get out of the bathrooms when this older male janitor (also about 55-60) walked by and said to me, "i LOVE your hair!" my brown hair with black lowlights and big, (fading) red chunk.
in conclusion, it's a shame there aren't more people in this area, and all areas, like that man and others who are just more accepting of simple things like a piercing, tattoo or style of clothing! it's something that makes a person unique and lets them show who they are. and, if you don't want to accept it, don't gawk and point and comment! grow up and just look away. also, that janitor's random compliment totally made my day - especially after that bitch at the front door! haha.
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MysteryCalls
04:35 Mar 21 2011
then scream and get it out of your system!!!
you may feel better...
ravenairsprite
03:51 Mar 23 2011
I say Scream.....long and loud.....It helps