Mistook a girl for a guy!

[Buzzy]

I've done that a few times. It's embarrassing!

Oh God, I have to tell this! Last Friday this person came in. About 40 years old or so. Really short and had a few hairy moles on the face. It had long hair, tied back with a neon pink ribbon. Carried a purse and a pink glittery wallet. Had a voice like a girl. But... with facial hair and no curves? Not to mention, a manly shaped face. I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman! My best guess would be a transsexual, going to be a woman. I wasn't grossed out or offended, but certainly confused.

[Cyanocobalamin]

Last Friday this person came in. <snip>Carried a purse and a pink glittery wallet. Had a voice like a girl.

Sounds just like the person that came in one day to apply for a job we had advertised. They were still legally male, but lived as female, ie had all the hormones and everything, but had not proceeded with the operation. The PM who was doing all the interviews was of course polite, but when this person left, him, me and my boss all went and !

[Plaidman]

I'm normally good at not mistaking woman as men, or men as woman, because I call everyone dude. I also don't care. As harsh as it sounds.

Only once, and once only was I confused, and I kept trying to figure it out. This person came in, (atcally it was yesterday, that's why I'm writing it).

Unisex clothes, unbelivibly androenus looking face. (Cute too in a curious way )

Then the person talked, and it sounded female, so I'm like, I'm not going crazy. Then the person talked again, (Longer sentence) and it sounded maleish. We had a small converstation, and the person had the tone changing.

Then the person paid, with a debit card. I looked at the name.

Erin.


So I guess I'll never know, cause I don't think I'll see the person again.

[JustADude]

I'm normally good at not mistaking woman as men, or men as woman, because I call everyone dude. ....

Then the person paid, with a debit card. I looked at the name.

Erin....

I'm betting female. From my experience guys tend to have the Aaron spelling. And I'm totally with you on the dude thing (if you couldn't tell from the name).

[junebug87]

My sister's boyfriend gets that all the time. He was at an ice skating rink, and it was ladies night, and he was the only boy on the ice, and no one called him on it...they all thought he was a she.
He's gotten ma'am, her, she, etc. all the time



He's on the right, by the way...lol

[Pixagi]

I'm pretty much a androg (people think my boyfriend is gay when he's with me ) so I've gotten pretty used to people calling me "sir," "young man," and, my personal fave, "big guy."

[KellyHabersham]

One of my former co-workers at the library had an experience with this a few years ago.......he worked at the circulation desk, and one night came into the staff workroom telling me about being embarassed because he'd addressed a patron as "sir', they totally looked like a man, but said they were female, and that their name was Penelope. However, this individual was NOT a woman, but a man who sometimes did a really bad job at cross-dressing, and (based on conversations I had with him) wasn't entirely playing with a full deck.

[laurenjeannie]

I have issues with this frequently face painting. Short haircuts are now common on little girls, as are long haircuts on little boys, and a lot of them don't dress in a gender specific way. Luckily I have only ever called a little boy 'sweetpea', he gave me a funny look and proceeded to request a Spiderman face. Small children normally don't care, and I just use pet names most of the time, darlin, honey, sweetie, and the like...

I have a friend who is a clown and had a tweenage kid she swore was a girl tell her to pick the design, she did a very pretty princess face in pink purple and blue. The boy was a good sport about it, as was his mother. He ended up wearing it the entire day.

The hardest thing for me is when a little boy asks for a butterfly or a little girl asks for Spiderman, that kind of thing. I have no issues woth this, I will paint them however they want, it's their choice, but then I get parents flipping out about their kid being against the norm.

[Sharsarannon]

I have short hair.
At my old job the outfits were so baggy and unflattering that if I wasn't wearing enough makeup people would frequently refer to me as 'the nice man' or He. That was from behind though.
The funniest is when people do this to my face. I was tallying out the register for the night and someone yelled, "Hey guy!"
I didn't look up, they weren;t talking to me.
This happened twice more before the man was standing in front of me and saying TO me, "Hey guy, d'you know where the exit is?"
I grinned and said in my very female voice, "it's right over there.... There's no way out of that one is there sir. Don't worry about it. "
He was aghast and kept apologizing all the way to the exit.

[Fawn]

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.

OMG.. ... *lots of hugs*

[justZu]

My son gets this once in a while. He is skinny, about 5'7", and used to have a longish emo kind of haircut. However, he has a very deep voice and a completely male face. He got so tired of being mistaken for a girl, he shaved all of his hair off.

Funny thing, we were working a beer stand together recently(after he shaved his head) and he finished waiting on his customer, gave the guy his change, and the guy says "you ladies have a nice day"

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Don't take it personally, bigjimaz. People are idiots. As an adult, I've actually heard all three of these thing when answering the phone.

"Hello, Sir."
"Hi there, little girl, is your mommy home?"
"Gd dn, you have the sexiest voice I've ever heard, woman! Are you married?"

So how a single voice could be interpreted all three of these ways could only be chalked up to the fact that there are some messed up people out there in telephone land.

I was lost once, and had to ask directions, and there was this scary, rough looking guy that was nearby. I was kind of afraid. This person was big and tall, broad shoulders, mullet, arms covered with tatoos, scar running down the side of face, etc. Turned out to be a woman. A very nice woman, too, I might add.

[ArenaBoy]

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.

I hate the whole emo haircut thing because of that. When I was directing traffic one time I caught a glimpse of a couple. Traffic was held up, so I tried to figure out which is which because of the emo look. Next thing I know, I figured it out. I once dated a girl who looked like a guy a lot of the time, my friends still won't let me live it down.

When I've had long hair I've never been mistaken for a girl at all, strange.