Lady Looks Like A Dude

[thansal]

So, the lady that looked like a dude that was fighting, did she look something like this? :
http://images.bimedia.net/images/110...t_of_store.jpg

That's the lady who was kicked-out of wal mart because she refused to wear something over her bikini. Seriously, that's her.

Oh gods, that looks a LOT like my friend's dad after he had a run of bad medical luck that left him rather over weight from long stints of not being ambulatory.

I have been mistaken for a female a lot tbh. For me it's 2 fold:
I have long hair, and have had it since HS. In HS I didn't hold it back in a pony tail so I got called miss or lumped in with a group of girls fairly regularly, to the point where I actually got heckled for being a lesbian more than once :P
My phone voice, especially when greeting is higher pitched, and it's fairly common for people to call me miss or mam over the phone at work :P

[zombiequeen]

I was called "sir" at the mall the other day by someone...I'm very much NOT man-shaped. I thought they were talking to my husband, but when he turned around to ask them, the were like "No, the guy next to you."
My hair was up in a bun and I was wearing a fitted tee-shirt. The only masculine thing was I was wearing guys shorts. I guess he was trying to make a statement about my shorts? I turned and was like "I'm not a sir"

[EricKei]

I got mistaken for a girl... once...when I was six, with the longish bright-blonde, nearly-white hair that many of my family members tend to have as children...o_O (guys: hair darkens to dark brown or black at puberty; gals: tend to end up as dark/dirty blonde. My aunt had stark-white hair as a kid and still has a lighter shade of blonde)

[Buglady]

But for deficiency diseases to be so blatantly visible in a first world country, in a place which it is easy to transport food to, leads me to think something's gone very wrong.

I was horrified when I read this article a couple of years ago, about a rise in scurvy diagnoses among English children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...in-C-diet.html

[Librarian]

another lady looks like a dude story:

Couple of weeks ago a couple walks in, one bald, heavy person with tattoos (tribal and patterns with a name mixed in) on the whole half of the face. the other obviously female, with just one large tattoo covering most of her cheeck up to her nose - the same tattoo with name person 1 also has. i wasn't sure about the gender of half-face, they were new here.
i was *so* glad when i enscribed them as members that her id had the F-mark on it, at least i'd be adressing her right :P otherwise i might still have been wondering (though her name gave it away too, it's very female)

These two were the kindest friendliest customers i could want though asked everything very politely (for example: "can i borrow that pen" that's standing 3 meters to my left instead of just grabbing it like most people) and i've seen them once or twice since - they do turn some heads, and it's often hard not to stare at their tats when they're sitting close to me while talking, but they're starting to be a couple of my favorites!

[Pixilated]

*snip*
She MUST have Salad!

*very large snip*
H: Where is the side salad?!
M: It does not come with a side salad!
H: My wife will not eat this!
M: Then she’s going hungry. Finish your meals quickly and get the fuck out.
H: Huh...what....huh?!
M: OUT!

He went back to the table. It took about ten minutes for the family to leave, with the husband looking really confused. The wife’s meal was still untouched.

[*snip)

Can I just say ... your manager is my hero ...

As for the she/he thing, I have a deeper-than-usual voice for a woman and have long since lost count of the times I've been called "Sir" over the phone. If it's someone I'm likely to be speaking to again, I'll correct them (after which they are horribly embarrassed, but to me it's become something of a joke); if not, I don't bother.

As for the anti-vegetable lady ... good grief. Hope somebody clues her in eventually on such nutritious food as chips, fries and all the other junk food she's undoubtedly eating ...

[Shalom]

I was serving a rough looking woman at the bar. She looked like she had just crawled out of a car crash,

If she hasn't, and hasn't had certain rare and specific meats (eg seal blubber), and hasn't had supplements, then she'd have scurvy.

Scurvy symptoms are unmistakeable. CustomersRuinMyLife would have seen her with bleeding gums, teeth either falling out or the gums overgrowing the teeth, visible severe bruising, old scars re-opened, old healed broken bones re-breaking, and in the later stages, everything that requires connective tissues .. failing.

Maybe she does have scurvy, based on CRML's description above...

[Seshat]

Unfortunately, it's quite possible.

The cure is very, very simple. Vitamin C. High doses now, continued doses throughout the rest of her life. Doesn't have to be supplements - citrus fruits, especially lemons, will do fine for the high doses. Oranges are more palatable and are just fine; ideally fresh (REAL) orange juice.

Once she's recovered, fresh fruit and veggies, or snap-frozen at the time of picking. (Canned and preserved don't work - both require heat in the processing, and heat destroys vitamin C. However, many of those now have C additives, and those are fine.)

Or, of course, those nummy-flavoured vitamin C supplements.