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My boyfriend (aka the Sturdy Nurse) and I managed to get roped into attending a Halloween costume party to be held tomorrow night by one of his coworkers, who has also invited most of the hospital staff and who is extremely insistent that everyone be in a costume. It's to the point that she has offered use of her sexy-time outfits to anyone who can't find a suitable costume of their own. God help me, but I volunteered to wear the French maid outfit if I couldn't find anything, but thankfully I decided to go as the Joker instead.
That left the Sturdy Nurse to find a suitable costume and as such, yesterday night we met another of his coworkers to go costume shopping. We stopped first at one of those pop-up Halloween shops, found nothing affordable, and trekked across the shopping center parking lot to the K-Mart there. After some searching, during which a great deal of giggling was involved, Sturdy Nurse chose a costume that can best be described as "sort of a Gothic Marie Antoinette, or something." Picture a squat, muscular black man with a goatee in a black and grey, lace-trimmed velvet gown with a high neck ruffle and you'll get the picture.
However, this horrified the eight or nine-year-old girl who happened to be in the costume aisle with us.
"Why are you dressing up as a girl?!" she asked, aghast.
"Because it's Halloween," we replied.
"That's not right," she replied.
We didn't care, and at that point, her mother called her away. Thinking nothing of it, we all headed over to the fitting rooms so he could try on the costume... where we ran into the girl and her entire family again.
"See?!" she said to her mother, "He's a boy and he's going to dress up as a girl!"
Sturdy Nurse ignored her and headed in to try on the gown.
"I'm a girl and I'm going to dress up as a girl," she said to the coworker and me, rather smugly.
At this point you could tell that the girl's mother had perhaps had a long day, because it was at this point she snapped at her daughter, "Stop being stupid, and leave those people alone!"
To her credit, she did leave us alone after that, but you could tell that the whole ordeal still just worried her terribly.
Bonus sighting! -- Today while I was in physical therapy, trying to get the use of my hand and wrist back, Sturdy Nurse witnessed a woman have a screaming meltdown at the front desk because she'd been booted out of the therapy pool. She'd been free swimming, you see, until a very selfish old lady and her therapist picked that inconvenient moment to come in and use the pool for some actual physical therapy.
If you even imagine.
"This place just caters to old people!" she screamed, and then there followed a long and involved discussion as to why she and her husband had chosen that particular pool and time to swim, and about how she just couldn't understand why they'd thrown her out when it was just that one old lady receiving therapy. It went on and on until one of the doctors got pissed off enough to emerge from his office (you know that was serious) and marched the screaming woman out of the building.
That left the Sturdy Nurse to find a suitable costume and as such, yesterday night we met another of his coworkers to go costume shopping. We stopped first at one of those pop-up Halloween shops, found nothing affordable, and trekked across the shopping center parking lot to the K-Mart there. After some searching, during which a great deal of giggling was involved, Sturdy Nurse chose a costume that can best be described as "sort of a Gothic Marie Antoinette, or something." Picture a squat, muscular black man with a goatee in a black and grey, lace-trimmed velvet gown with a high neck ruffle and you'll get the picture.
However, this horrified the eight or nine-year-old girl who happened to be in the costume aisle with us.
"Why are you dressing up as a girl?!" she asked, aghast.
"Because it's Halloween," we replied.
"That's not right," she replied.
We didn't care, and at that point, her mother called her away. Thinking nothing of it, we all headed over to the fitting rooms so he could try on the costume... where we ran into the girl and her entire family again.
"See?!" she said to her mother, "He's a boy and he's going to dress up as a girl!"
Sturdy Nurse ignored her and headed in to try on the gown.
"I'm a girl and I'm going to dress up as a girl," she said to the coworker and me, rather smugly.
At this point you could tell that the girl's mother had perhaps had a long day, because it was at this point she snapped at her daughter, "Stop being stupid, and leave those people alone!"
To her credit, she did leave us alone after that, but you could tell that the whole ordeal still just worried her terribly.
Bonus sighting! -- Today while I was in physical therapy, trying to get the use of my hand and wrist back, Sturdy Nurse witnessed a woman have a screaming meltdown at the front desk because she'd been booted out of the therapy pool. She'd been free swimming, you see, until a very selfish old lady and her therapist picked that inconvenient moment to come in and use the pool for some actual physical therapy.
If you even imagine.
"This place just caters to old people!" she screamed, and then there followed a long and involved discussion as to why she and her husband had chosen that particular pool and time to swim, and about how she just couldn't understand why they'd thrown her out when it was just that one old lady receiving therapy. It went on and on until one of the doctors got pissed off enough to emerge from his office (you know that was serious) and marched the screaming woman out of the building.
, saying he can't wear her dress, etc. She's now in her 20's, a great kid (well, to me 20's is a kid still!) and AFAIK, completely unprejudiced.
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