Complaining about S&M.

[friendofjimmyk]

And on the topic at hand - way fucking cool of those girls. Let your freak flag fly, baby! If they are not hurting anyone or inciting a riot or other public nusance - that other lady needed to fuck off!

[friendofjimmyk]

I'm more offended in those parents who put their young children on leashes. A length of nylon rope and a harness is no substitute for proper parenting. .

You know, I used to agree with you on this one until I started watching small children. Even the best parents can't keep their eyes on their kids CONSTANTLY. Say, if you are at a fair and have to stop holding your childs hand for a few seconds to say, grab a plate full of funnel cake and look away for just a split second - ZIP - the kid is gone.

When I was younger, I didn't think of pulling shit like that because my father would've tanned my ass - public or not - but today, most parents don't handle stuff like that. So, I can see a good use for the kiddie leash.

[Bliss]

I used to wear a collar and leash out to the bar with my boyfriend on occasion, but I had to stop because drunk people though it was an invitation to gab the leash and run off to show their friends. Hello, I need to BREATH!

Which on a stronger dom/sub setting should have prompted your bf to go over, and kick their ass bloody. I mean you don't run to someone, grab their pet/pda/wallet/XXX-stuff from them and run away to show it without getting into serious trouble... same should happen with a sub.... People never cease to amaze me with the levels of stupidity they will fall to.

I wonder how the mortality rate of drunk idiots is so incredibly low today

[Imogene]

A friend of mine in Missouri and I were out late one night (I want to say, we were out after having seen a late night showing of 'Cars' of all things) and were wandering around Wal-Mart, her in a collar and me just kind of following her. More than once, she attached a leash to her collar and handed it to me to lead her around.
RJ: *blink, blink* "Um... okay... Not really in a domme-y mood..." *hand the leash back*
Until we were done in Wally World.
And, of course, now that I'm here in Texas, and miss her desperately, I would be more than willing to guide her around a Wal-Market in such a fashion.

[Hon'ya-chan]

You know, I wonder how the woman would've reacted if the girl dressed like a dog or a cat.

The Hot Topic elsewhere in the mall actually had to deal with this couple, where the woman was dressed as a horse.

Well, if you mean "Horse" as in her in a leather harness, a bit in her mouth, and a very intricate plumage. And him in a very Gothic Cowboy type of deal. During Halloween.

[ArenaBoy]

Maybe it was because I was in an arcade. The easygoing atmosphere let them put their hair down, metaphoricly (and sometimes physically), and not watch themselves as much. Hey, they're in their own turf. They can let their inner asshole out, and nobody's going to care. Wooo! Freedom!

Now, most of the unusual people were well behaved. But they still had a higher percentage of entitled/conniving/anti-authoritarian (IE, "you can't make me") attitudes than the "normal" people.

The in their own turf part can say a lot but just as there are assholes in the normal groups there are assholes in the unusual groups also. What I've noticed in areas where normal people congregate is that the unusual types have no choice but to remain behaved because a lot of normals (Assholes) tend to have the majority rule and their looking for an excuse to give them hell. The normal types won't change their behavior when they go to places that's not exactly their turf, they're going to have a superiority complex with them no matter what.

As for the unusual types being rude in their turf, some of them tend to be bitter and they just want to take their frustrations out on someone because they know what will happen if they did it on someone else's turf.

I will go on to say that odd customers do tend to be more politer.

[Gurndigarn]

Quoth JustaCashier
I'd bet the "odd" customers are better customers overall than the busybody types.
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I would also bet the "odd" ones would be less likely to have unreasonable requests, or expectations, or to argue store policies.

From my cashiering experience, it's true. Very true.

Many theories as to why.

Am I the only one who had more issues with the "odd" ones out there?

(That's using a number of issues to number of customers ratio, of course, not absolute number of problems. I had more problems total from "normal" customers... but I had many many many more normal customers than odd ones.)

Maybe it was because I was in an arcade. The easygoing atmosphere let them put their hair down, metaphoricly (and sometimes physically), and not watch themselves as much. Hey, they're in their own turf. They can let their inner asshole out, and nobody's going to care. Wooo! Freedom!

Unfortunately, I was being paid to care. And to remove the grafitti and garbage they left behind. And to convince the teens that 7:00 on a busy Saturday is a lousy time to just hang out, sit on games, block aisles, etc-- and not play anything.

Now, most of the unusual people were well behaved. But they still had a higher percentage of entitled/conniving/anti-authoritarian (IE, "you can't make me") attitudes than the "normal" people. On the plus side for them, they tried fewer scams than most normals (that particular distinction went to 8-12 year old boys) and rarely gave us problems with not understanding a game... if they didn't understand it, they played it until they did, or asked their friends, or read the instructions, or whatever, but didn't complain that the game was broken. That distinction went to the soccer moms.

[trunks2k]

A dom and sub out like that in pulic? If I had been there I would have said kudos to them for having the guts to do that, maybe ask them if they knew where I could get some good collars

Good collars are hard to find. Most of them are that really cheap, uncomfortable leather.

[KMMCurly]

A dom and sub out like that in pulic? If I had been there I would have said kudos to them for having the guts to do that, maybe ask them if they knew where I could get some good collars

[trunks2k]

I used to wear a collar and leash out to the bar with my boyfriend on occasion, but I had to stop because drunk people though it was an invitation to gab the leash and run off to show their friends. Hello, I need to BREATH!

Well if you wouldn't wear the choke-chain, it wouldn't be that much of a problem.

Now handcuffs, those are fun. Occasionaly my friends and I will randomly hancuff ourselves together.

I once spent an entire day of class in handcuffs. Don't ask me why, I really don't know.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Heh, please. These folks have to actually see gothic wear to get offended? Welcome to rural Arkansas.

People at school used to look at me funny for wearing...now get this awful outfit...

An oversized white dress shirt, down to three inches above the knees, sleeves unbuttoned.
Tan corduroy pants.
Black platform boots.
A white cowboy hat.
Sunglasses.

Oh, and with perfectly normal shoulder-length blonde hair, no piercings, no tattoos.

People who had known me for 12 years would actually veer around me in the hallway because of THAT outfit. The same people who came to school straight from hunting camp still wearing their camo overalls.

Top it if you can.

[Emmeileia]

Kudos to those girls.

I used to wear a collar and leash out to the bar with my boyfriend on occasion, but I had to stop because drunk people though it was an invitation to gab the leash and run off to show their friends. Hello, I need to BREATH!

Now handcuffs, those are fun. Occasionaly my friends and I will randomly hancuff ourselves together.

[Becks]

I'd bet the "odd" customers are better customers overall than the busybody types.
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I would also bet the "odd" ones would be less likely to have unreasonable requests, or expectations, or to argue store policies.

From my cashiering experience, it's true. Very true.

Many theories as to why.

[DesignFox]

In high school, I used to wear spiked collars quite frequently. I had three- one with rainbow, shifting color type stuff- one with leopard print- and one that was black with two rows of studs and the spikes in the middle.

One of my friends used to joke around about my dog collars, and got me a matching black leash for Christmas (my favorite collar was the black one). It having been that we exchanged gifts during school hours, I hooked up the leash and handed it to one of my scarier looking companions and let him "walk" me around to my next class.

We all got a laugh out of it...and lots of funny looks.

I'm much tamer in appearance, now. But I know I dressed in all black, skulls and collars and I wasn't a trouble maker- so I don't make assumptions about anyone else based on their appearance, either.

[digilight]

hehehe So she keeps her girlfriend on a short leash (sorry couldn't resist). You know whats crazy, is that some asshats have to complain about everything. In my experience some of the nicest, most intelegent folks I've ever known have been the ones who have dressed and portrayed themselves on the fringe of society. Whether its the goth look or the punk look with the 2 foot tall hawks, or the headbangers. These are the ones who are more or less wearing their emotions on their sleeves.

Some of them may be filled with angst, but I doubt that they are filled with hate. Hell the chance of them being a detrement to society is about as high as the chance of them being filled with candy.

And for the record, I consider myself a ubber conservative republican. I would much rather my kids come home wearing goth type clothes or whatever then coming home on dope!!!!

So these bitchy, nosy, freaks need to just shut the fuck up, and mind their own business. Let people live their own lives. Expecially considering that kids today are still trying to find out who they are, and what makes them tick. We've all gone thru our phases. When I was younger it was the goth, metal head, and mope scene. Yeah Sixiou and the banshees, Depeche Mode, and Slayer.