Do you every have days where your walking down the street, wondering why people are staring at you? You check to see your make up isn’t smudged, your skirt isn’t tucked into your underwear and your hair isn’t messy. Then you realise that your wearing five inch Demonia boots, ripped striped stockings and black lipstick. That is the story of my life. Even those day’s when you tone it down to black jeans and a black long sleeve you see people watching you with odd expressions. Sometimes it just doesn’t make any sense, but no one’s perfect. No matter how much you try to fit in you will always have your secret of expression and I think they know that.
I remember sitting in McDonald’s with my boy friend on Christmas day (Yes I know it doesn’t sound nice but my boy friends lives in a very small rural town and never get’s to go!) and having a test of how much I know about cars (Very little). I turned to look around the room because I’m always paying attention to my surroundings and there he was sitting a few table away. His cell phone was leaning against the table, he was practically laying across the public table with the camera pointing right at me. I stared at the camera for a few minutes not very sure how to react. Hurriedly I decided that looking away and covering my face with my hair would have to do. It was somewhat frightening and I remember thinking something along the lines of “I hope that ends up on ‘Goth’s In Hot Weather”” because in Australia, Christmas is in summer, of course.
This leads me to a thought, a question. People whom dress differently have most probably come across this, whether they have realised it or not. How do you react when someone is (obviously) taking pictures of you, whilst trying to (badly) hide it? It’s happened more than once, I just don’t know who to react. I never thought someone would be so rude for no reason. If they asked it would have been a different story. It’s just that horrible thought you get that someone might be taking it home to laugh at you with their friends but mostly worse, which I don’t want to think about.
Well, anyway, just some musings.
-Have a lovely day, Ms. Walrus.