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My hair since growing out has a pleasant variagated blond/red color naturally. I guess it looks like I did something colorwise to it? A few times I've been asked in stores "Can I help you, ma'am?" but they are mightily surprised when I turn around and they see this ugly mug!
That happened to me fairly frequently in my younger days back in the late 60 and through the 70s. Usually happened at gss stations, when the attendant (That should give you an idea of how long ago that was) would bound out to my li'l Cougar and ask, "fill 'er up, maam" I'd make sure to use my business voice and say deeply, No thanks as I tyurned to them. They would be shocked when I turned around and my moustache greeted them. These latter days, however, with my hair just as long. it hasn't happened....yet.
In all the years i've had long hair i've only had it happen to
me once.
It was at an office supply store.
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but I think it only happened once to me. This was before the huge beard. I had just a goatee.
It happened to me, maybe 10 years back, where I was only visible from the waist up. It happened at a store where the counter top blocked view of my hips. (Wide hips almost always mean female and not male.) The store clerk saw me from the back and said ma'am. That person was very surprised when I turned around. I got a real laugh out of that.
Scott
This has happened to me a couple of times. I am pretty built, so I don't know why this mistake is made so often. I think it has always been an honest mistake with no insult intended, so it does not bother me.
I was once "ma'med" over the phone at my former place of work (when I had extremely short hair, if it matters hehe) though I do not have a high voice. I later found out that the customer I was talking to suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, so maybe that had something to do with it but not sure really. If it's happened since growing my hair out then I don't remember it.