A lovely, uh...lady came up to my cart...

[goose]

a few weeks ago. She walked up to my cart and I quickly saw that she might not be a woman. She was about 6'2 with black heels and a black dress. She had a bit of a five o'clock shadow and a deep voice.

Him/Her: Can I ask you a favor?
Me: Sure.
Him/Her: Can I have a free churro?
Me: A free churro?
Him/Her: The security gaurd told me I need to sober up and I have no money.
Me: Well, there's a coffee stand over there.
Him/Her: I want a churro.
Me: I can't give out free churros. Unless you have a city hall voucher.
Him/Her: a what?
Me: If you go to City Hall at the front of the park and tell them, they might give you a voucher for one.
Him/Her: No, I'm not gonna go back there. Nevermind. Thanks.

He/She then walked off with a friend. I was just proud at myself for not laughing and being pretty professional.

[BirdMom]

Well, he wouldn't be the first drag queen in Anaheim. Years ago, I was at Acapulco's drinking with some of my fellow mdse. cm's when I had to use the ladies room. There was this "woman" sitting at the vanity in there, and I was thinking she was awfully tall and flashy (leopard print dress, and big jewelry, lots of make-up). I didn't think anything of it until I was inside the stall and I heard a man's voice making conversation with the second lady seated at the vanity. Uh boy... :wink:

I also had a couple of regular drag queen customers when I sold cosmetics at a department store in the Brea Mall. They were cool - and they spent an awful lot of money (good for my commission checks) so I wasn't about to complain, let alone judge them...it's the rest of the mall customers who were less than cool about seeing drag queens in Orange County, but guess what pe'eps - that's just the way the world is, so deal with it! :lol:

[Freak]

Yeah theres a drag queen that works at my local Jack-in-the-Box. I ordered food and it sounded all deep and manly on the PA, but when "she" handed me my food at the window, well...lets just say 2+2 didn't equal 4 that time...

And Birdmom, seeing a drag queen in a bathroom is one thing, but... When I walked into the Men's room at my local Carl's Jr. and opened a stall...I saw a naked homeless dude taking a bath in the toilet... :shock:

[Anonymous]

Kind of speaking about this. Have any of you ever mistaken a guy or girl to think that they were the opposite sex? I remember one time last year someone dropped something. I kept chasing the person. "Ma'am. Ma'am'' finally they turned around and it was a guy. I was so embarassed. It was funny though because he had long hair that was passed his shoulders and he was very small and petite. lol. Oh well.

[SRT_GB]

Have any of you ever mistaken a guy or girl to think that they were the opposite sex?
I've actually mistaken a few women for men. The worst was my first summer in the Emporium, there was this person with short hair, kinda heavy-set, wearing a baseball cap and a Dallas Cowboys jersey. I was sure it was a man and said, "Hello, sir." Then I found out it was a woman. Boy was my newbie face red.

[IndyBob]

Have any of you ever mistaken a guy or girl to think that they were the opposite sex?

I use to work in cast scheduling for attractions, mainly westside, and there use to be this lady who worked pirates. Anywho, after working at a job like that one for a while, you really get to know your cast members whom you talk to day in and day out. So I could recognize their voices whenever they called and know who it was. So one day she calls me and says she's calling in for her shift and this lady had the deepest voice from smoking for like 40 years and she was some construction worker, and she telling me she needs to call in and I told her,

Me: "this isn't natalie, this is her brother. If she wants to call in she needs to call in herself."
Her: "Yes this is and I need to call in"
Me:"No really she needs to call in for her own shift"
Her: "I swear its me, i just have a really deep voice"

and at that moment I realized who I was talking with and turned about 50 shades of red :oops: and apologised about 100 times and took her call in.

[VonSeegs]

at that moment I realized who I was talking with and turned about 50 shades of red and apologised about 100 times and took her call in.

Ha ha! I've seen that shade of red! Couldn't tell where your face ended and your hair began!

I always seem to have problems with the little kids. Every once in a while I'll call some little kid with mullet 'princess' when in fact he's a 'buddy.' Oops. That's what happens when you've got business up front and party in the back!

[WaitWhat]

I actually get mistaken for a woman a lot. Pretty embarassing

[Polar33]

I've been mistaken for a woman online before...does that count? :lol: :wink:

I remember calling an older Asian gentleman "mam" once. He just looked at me strangely while I got all embarased and apoligized. He didn't look feminine at all...I was just suffering from going too long without a break.

[BirdMom]

Have any of you ever mistaken a guy or girl to think that they were the opposite sex?

I had an embarrassing incident. It actually happened in the drama lab at O.C.C. - the department had Mike Farrell (B.J. Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H*) as a special guest speaker and I was there with some of my classmates. He was talking pretty much about different methods of acting and was taking questions from students as well (M*A*S*H* was still on the air at that point, and he was getting a lot of questions about when the war was going to end...) Well, he'd brought one of his kids with him and explained it was because he spent so much time at work that he needed to find excuses at every possible moment to spend time with any of them. He made some remark about his sweet girl and hugged this child - looked to be about 8, dressed pretty raggga-muffin, short blonde hair every which way. I sort of gasped "that's a girl?" thinking it was under my breath, but unfortunately, we were in the second row and father and daughter both heard me. I felt HORRIBLE - this child's face fell so low, and he looked extremely pissed - thank goodness they couldn't tell exactly who said it... I wonder if the little tomboy went through an identity crisis or did a 180 and became extremely girly after that... :oops:

[Weeble]

I've been mistaken for a woman online before...

*cough* yeah, sorry bout that.*cough*

[CujoSR]

Weeble- Ask Freak if he's ever been mistaken for a girl? :twisted:

[Weeble]

*cough* yeah, sorry about that too *cough*

[BirdMom]

I always seem to have problems with the little kids. Every once in a while I'll call some little kid with mullet 'princess' when in fact he's a 'buddy.' Oops.

Ya know, women have a generic solution...we can get away with calling every little kid we run into "sweetie" or "honey." Maybe the generic solution for guys would be to call the kids "squirt" or "munchkin..." Those both sound non-gender specific, plus don't sound overly girly... :wink:

[Polar33]

I've found that "Kid-o" works quite well.

[Max Fischer]

I find that you can also use these gender neutral terms; tool, jackass, moron, loser, 'hey-you, adopted kid' and many others. It helps you avoid the awkard silences we all disdain.

[IndyBob]

LOL! Thats AWESOME :D

[Zazu]

I like to address ambiguous guests as "Mousketeer," especially in Toontown. "Pardner" works pretty well for Frontierland, too.

Still working on something to use on Main Street that doesn't get the same reaction as "Streetwalker."

[Guest Relations King]

I've been guilty of calling women sir, but normally not the other way around.

I can remember one time when I was parked out at the tour cart, and I needed help from a female custodial CM, I accidentally called her sir. I apologized, but really didn't feel bad about it. She looked like a woman, but I was so overworked at that point, all my responses were pre-programmed.

- GRK

[Greenbaron76]

Kind of speaking about this. Have any of you ever mistaken a guy or girl to think that they were the opposite sex?

Once I was checking out a guest at Keystone Clothiers, and we were in a mad rush at that point,so I wasn't as OBSERVANT as I should of been...as I was attempting to upsell, I addressed the guest as "sir", and then the guest responded "no thanks", and immediately it hit me that was obviously a female voice! I took a close look, and my fears were confirmed. I couldn't stop apoligizing enough to the guest, I was embarassed for a few days after that! :oops:

[Tim Gaines]

Ya know, women have a generic solution...we can get away with calling every little kid we run into "sweetie" or "honey." Maybe the generic solution for guys would be to call the kids "squirt" or "munchkin..." Those both sound non-gender specific, plus don't sound overly girly... :wink:

When I worked at Honey, I would hand out those infernal 'goggles' (nothing more than cheaply mass produced plastic frames with a thin sheet of polarized film in the middle) and I would refer to every child 4 and under (or approx.) 'baby' ..you know, like off that goddamned Old Navy commercial? I figured if they could get away with it, so could I .. AND I DID, till I quit - now I call them whatever I want.

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