Strange Garb by Listener, rongo rongo, bunny dragon
April 8th, 2008 7:28 AMThe nearest Arby's to Boston
I. and M. don't play SF0, but put on their pajamas for a trip to Arby's. Moussie wore shorts and a suit jacket with all the tags still on it. Listener's feather boa was deemed insufficiently inappropriate, so was supplemented by a floral headdress and tulle tutu. bunny dragon and I went formal, and I gave everyone a corsage with mini-daffodils or rock iris.
Invading the suburbs
"I can't believe I'm doing this"
Carousel
The centerpiece of this food court is a little carousel (that never seems to be working). We stopped by for a little photo recreation.
Arby's is cool
The woman at the counter asked why we were dressed up. I told her so that we could go to Arby's, and that we'd had to come all the way from Boston. She agreed that this was a good reason.
Food courts are lively
bunny dragon added a fleece headband to his suit, to make sure he didn't look too appropriate.
M says hi
The protruding tongue is an aggressive expression in Maori dance.
Stale pastries
Moussie discovers that Arby's, while famous for its roast beef, has rather bad pastries.
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We're in Boston.
New England? C'mon. We're *masters* of the "nod and smile... nod and smile" approach to Not Asking About That Strange Thing.
Well, unless we're flipping out about terrorists installing Lite-Brites on our bridges. Lite-Brites is serious business, after all.
*cough*
Actually, one guy did come up and compliment Listener on his outfit. But he didn't say anything to the rest of the group.
Actually I don't think that's true, Scienceguru. It isn't that people don't care, it is that people don't usually speak up about it. In today's society it is deemed most polite to quietly tolerate even the strangest of goings on. They don't express their opinions, generally, even when things get ugly.
Try making strange and menacing sounds... hell, even be abusive... on the bus sometime, and watch the people around you. It is clear they care. They have opinions, but they won't approach you or share their feelings... they'll just go on their merry.
What's needed in tasks like these is confrontation (and I don't necessarily mean that in a negative way). If you confront others directly with your magically dressed self, you'll get plenty of response. You just can't expect them to share of their own accord. It ain't polite.
The interesting thing about all these dress funny and go somewhere praxes is that the consistent thread through all the reports is that nobody else ever gives much of a crap what you guys wear :>