Mistook a girl for a guy!

[customersruinmylife]

Oh dear, I am so embarassed. I was clearing some glasses and I saw a girl getting dragged into the ladies toilets. I only caught a glimpse, and all I saw was a girl and someone tall with an emo hair cut dragging her in.

First thought: Guy and girl going to toilet to have sex. It seriously looked like a guy, and I was very tired and annoyed (St Patricks day 12 hour shift) so I just burst into the bathroom.

Me: RIGHT! GET OUT MATE!

I look and its two GIRLS. The little girl, and a girl who was very tall and with an emo hair cut. She seriously looked like an emo guy. I went red.

Me: Ignore me *runs away*

Thankfully, they were so drunk they forgot about it.

[Ackee]

never Mind

At least you weren't in the bathroom, reacting with horror as you see them come in, run out screaming to the security, who then goes in and finds...
2 girls

[Kiwi]

my manager did that once, she said "anything else I can help you with sir" and the woman (who looked like a guy) said "actually im a maam"

my manager just about died on the spot and mumbled an "oh im so sorry"

afterward she said to me... would you have made that mistake, I had seen her credit card before so I knew it was a woman however if I had to make a guess.... Id have gotten it wrong to!

[Cia]

Been there, done that and lost the t-shirt. It's embarassing but after awhile all the customers become a blur.

[myswtghst]

This past weekend I was at the Taste of Chaos show in Milwaukee. Bands such as 30 Seconds to Mars played, and there were emo kids in abundance. I always have a hard time telling them apart, and at this show, it was particularly bad. They all have hair that looks like it was cut with a weedwhacker, too much eyeliner, and tight pants on. So don't feel bad! I can't tell the difference either.

[VoodooSquirrel]

Happened a lot for me too, we actually invented a name for it.
We called them "Chudes" because you weren't sure if it was a chick, or a dude.

[powerboy]

I have done that a couple of times. Hey, we are human, but it was still embarrassing.

[bigjimaz]

Back when I was but a 12 year old boy and going through 'that time of life' where my body was 5 foot 9 but my voice was still 4 foot 1, I remember answering the phone and having the man on the other end say, "Hi little girl, is your daddy home?" I did what all 5'9" 12 year old man-children do in that situation. I yelled, "I'm not a girl!" into the phone, hung up on him, and ran to my room crying. The guy on the other end of the conversation was my dad's boss. Let's just say that I cried twice that night.

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Then there were the 60's and 70's when it was not impossible to drool over beautiful long hair swaying above a really nice butt only to realize that the hair, and the butt, belonged to a dude.

[Imogene]

We called them "Chudes" because you weren't sure if it was a chick, or a dude.

I'm sure they'd prefer to be called Androgynous. Chudes sounds close to choades, which is extremely rude.
Speaking as one myself. I get people who have NO idea what sex I am at first glance. But, I quite enjoy it. I prefer to be able to blend in as male OR female.

[asopu10]

You think you have it bad i regually am mistaken for a girl, in fact on my last shift a guy said "excuse me love, erm, sorry, mate" They tend to relise when I look directly at them, but when I'm just stocking or serving them they don't relise. I was recently walking through a market and a women was pulling a cart of flowers through the door, so I held it open for her to make it easier, she then said "Thanks love, erm, I mean mate. I think, sorry are you a guy or a girl" this went on for a min or so, she looked so flusterd and I just started giggling before putting her out of her missery and saying your welcome, have a nice day" and wondering off. I never did tell her my gender, lol!

[Andara Bledin]

I never use any gender-specific pronouns if there's any way to avoid it.

We've got one person that calls in that used to work for my company. She happened to be a man at the time, too. Her voice didn't change post-op, and it was deep and gravelly then.

Every receptionist after me has called her "sir" at some point.

^-.-^

[Dreamstalker]

I've both done that and had it happen to me (been mistaken for a guy, especially when I have my hair short and am not dressed up). No worries.

The bungee bf once went mildly ballistic when finding out I didn't care enough to go off on people about it "WTF you should care you're hot" etc. I don't care that much about it because I don't, I'm a bit androgynous-looking anyway (some days the only giveaway is a "girly" shirt). IMO, there are better things I could be concerned with than flipping out over a stranger getting my gender mixed up.

[felixxkatt]

nothing quite like saying "what can i get for you sir--uuuhr---Ma'am..." lol... that happens everywhere. there is a middleaged woman who is heavyset and wears androgynous clothes and has a short unisex haircut that comes through our cafe a lot... she seems pissed when we think she 's a guy but she never ever even makes an effort to look an eensy bit more feminine! just wear a pink shirt or something and we'd know (or at least have a clue!) as long as they don't get pissy about it shrug it off...

[RogueThinker]

Saved by English

Ah, the beauty of non-specifics in language interaction. "Can I help you?" needs no modifiers to be polite, does it? Or we could all fake Yorkshire accents and call everyone "luv"

OT, what is a choade? I'm too lazy to check UrbanDictionary.

[Rapscallion]

"Choad" or "Choade" is a fine old Elizabethan word (the first Elizabeth - Walter Raleigh and all that) for penis.

Rapscallion