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As I was in a checkout line at the supermarket yesterday I noticed there were two girls who I'd say were in their mid-teens behind me. I was still emptying my cart so at times they were seeing a side view of me and at other times just a back view.
So one of them says to the other "is that a guy or a girl?" I laughed inside because kids either think that adults become deaf once they reach their 30s or else they just didn't care if I heard. I hadn't trimmed my beard in a month so it was quite bushy by my standards. I had my hair in a standard English braid. I had a dark shirt on.
Like others here who have related similar stories, I chose to take it as a compliment. LOL, does this mean I've finally arrived?
Congrats you have arrived. I work in a supermarket and if I had a nickel for every time someone walked up behind me and said, "excuse me ma'am where is.......?" I still enjoy the moment when I turn around and get their reaction which falls into two categories, embarrassed with an I'm sorry or nothing at all. The women are usually more apologetic than the men.
Once I had mistaken A woman for a man and I said: "excuse me sir... but it ended happily ever after because she didn't hear my sir.
In my language
sir is pone
maam is ponia
Yeah I've done that too, short hairs all look alike to me male or female.
Hehe I know what you're talking about, I work in a supermarket too and I used to be addressed "ma'am" some times, but it has occured much lately (only one time last saturday) ^^ I always laugh about it to make them feel better about their mistake :D.
Yeah and what's even funnier is when someone tells me they want to speak to the manager and I reply "that would be me" (I'm the 3rd shift manager)
It means your hair looks pretty long and in superb conditioN! It's just funny, but take it as a compliment =} :P
LOL
Pretty much! I always take it as a compliment...well, almost always...there are a few jerks out there. One persistent guy finally got told "You might not be able to tell, but the women can, and I'm good with that!" I have one ready if someone wants to comment "Oh, five Girls!" at an LHC meet..."No. One guy, four girls, think about it!" (Like the kid being teased about taking ballet instead of a manly sport.)
I also try to use humor or explain, since it often really worries people who say it.
LOL...Thats hilarious. Those teens must have been full of crap. I still can't fathom how anyone would mistaken you for a girl. Not even from the back i would have mistaken you for a girl. Your shoulders are broad and you seem pretty tall as well. Thats just my opinion.
lol i was in a shop with the mother once and this guy came up us (from behind) and said "can i help you ladies" lol
I turned around and looked at him funny and he went red and walked off.....it was funny
I always chuckle when I hear of comments such as this that other guys post here. At their ages they know WELL who is the guy and who is the girl. There is no question that you have "arrived" and have superb long hair.
Heck, in my own way I think I "arrived" the day I first hatched! And nobody has been able to "coop-me-up" since! LOL
Hey Jason: Cool man. I had a similar thing happen yesterday. I was at the cellphone store and the cashier had been looking down using her keyboard and without looking up said, "may I help you mam?" When she looked up she said, "er, excuse me sir." She was an African American young woman with "groomed" dreads. I complimented her on them and asked how long it took her to grow them. Well, it had been two years...guess what, almost the same as me. So we're sitting there talking about our hair. At one point she went in back and brought out a picture of her (and her husband) to show me how it used to look when short. All in all a pretty cool exchange. Goes to show that we're not the only ones into our hair. Peace - Bruce'ster
My experience was funny - a man in a tram got up from his seat and told to me "sit down madam"
I don' t take in those girlie comments seriously, since once I've made the same mistake... That one was also funny - for both of us :)
Cheers, Adalbert
Hi Jason, being mistaken for a girl does occasionally happen. This should not happen to often, since few women are as tall as you are. From looking at some of your vacation photos, I get a value of 6' tall plus or minus 1 inch.
It has happened to me a few times, from the back. It is priceless to see the reaction of total surprise on someone's face when I turn around.
Absalom
Hey Absalom,
I'm actually only 5'8" so maybe that has something to do with it.
A height of 5'8" tall is probably in the upper 10th percentile for women in our country. I will have to research that value to be sure. You would probably get mistaken for a girl, when seen from the back, a lot more often if you were under 5'6" tall. It would probably not happen at all if you were 6'6" tall.
I sure got your height wrong, you look much taller in your photos. I am 5'9" tall, so I do get mistaken for a girl occasionally. The average height for a woman in the US is about 5'5".
Absalom
I'm 5'2" but I would regularly be mistaken for a guy when my hair was buzzed...well, a boy actually. They usually not only thought I was male, but about 12-years-old. Very amusing. :-)
I remember I tried to turn in a gambling stubb once and the woman behind the counter flipped out, pulled away, and said, "I can't take that, you're too young!" I was 24 at the time...still brings a smile to my face to this day. I could see her asking for my ID, but her reaction told me that she was WAY off on my age. Priceless.
Mouse
It has never happened to me, and I've been 6' most of my life, recently finding myself a bit closer to 5'11. Of course, my beard would always preclude that if they've seen me from the front. Also, I have a hearing impairment that makes "mam" and "man" sound the same, so I probably wouldn't notice it anyway. [grin] The main annoyance from that is I never can tell whether a train is an M or an N when it's called out in the subway.
Bill
I hope you are considering yourself fortunate. I'll never have anything like that happen to me because I have a nice 7 cm wide bald spot on my crown. Not to many girls have one of those! Enjoy it while you can.
Haha, these things always makes me laugh! :D I can´t believe they even questioned your gender since you seem really masculine in your body.
Hey
I went shopping with the wife a few months ago and when we went up to an item we was purchasing we had our head turn away and the wife asked about something and the guy said im not sure ladies lol i just laughed
Axel
I get comments like that when I have my hair in a half-tail and I'm wearing my kilt. It's interesting to see the reaction when I turn around and they see my goatee. I'm 6'3", 300+ lbs. and most definitely a GUY! One drunk dude asked what I wear under it, and reached for the bottom hem. I told him, "If you pull that up, expect to wake up in the Hospital! By the way, it's usually the ladies that ask. What team you playin' for, anyway?" That shut him up.
Great fun!
Is this look really that confusing?
Well, if you go through life never getting your brain out of park, sure! It's the same sort of thing that leads people to t-bone a brightly colored stopped city transit but...doesn't look like a car, so it must not be there.
Don't kid yourself. You arrived quite a while ago. Still an inspiration to many of the rest of us; even us Old Farts!
George