This has happened to me a couple times in years long past. There’s also the reverse, where someone you ONLY know from a goth club runs into you in everyday life, and it’s like “who the fuck are you and how do you know my name? OH, right, I’m used to seeing you in a long pink wig and a fishnet shirt with your nipples covered by electrical tape X marks.”
EDIT: Holy fucking shit, I fucking told you so.
I wish I ran into more people like that….
Instead, I get the, “What are you doing out here?”
Me: “Do I know you?”
Them: “We went to high school together!”
Me: “How the ~hell~ did you recognize me? I look nothing like I did then. And who are you?”
I had a moment like that. Except after recognition, it was, “OH MY GOD, YOU GOT HOT AND I CAN’T SAY THAT OUT LOUD.”
I got it bad, got it bad, got it bad…..
I’m hot for teacher!!
http://youtu.be/-4GZFbCqx18
I get the “don’t I know you?”
Me: “No, I have a carefully constructed blend of features that makes me look like every dark haired, bearded folk with light/ruddyish skin in existence.”
I worked at a alternative club in the 90s, it was goth and metal night on weekends (Thur/Fri/Sat). So I’d be bar backing and cleaning up, helping to clear out people and get them out the door. I’d see them in town later on and they’d be like I know you??? I’d have to look really hard to figure it out and most of them were hung over when we met.
Then there’s the comment a woman from our karate club made the first time she saw our instructor outside class: Oh, this is what you look like with clothes on!
I do like the rabbit hole this strip has fallen into! Much more interesting than shooting at tin cans in the back 40…
I have a couple funny versions of this story,
1: Had a buddy who played in a local band, they got a gig at a nudist colony. Fast forward a month, he is driving home and gets pulled over for speeding and recognizes the cop from the nudist gig. Didn’t get a ticket…
2: Brother is a cop. About 10 years ago we went to a Kiss concert, on one of their many farewell tours. Brother is in line in the bathroom between shows, and the guy in front of him in full Gene Simmons makeup, looks really familiar. Finally figures out he is a high up guy in the District Attorney’s office that he had worked with.
That recognition-out-of-context thing can be a nuisance. Between SCA, Burners, and some of the other subcultures I hang with, not only are they dressed differently, but in some cases I don’t know their real / default / modern names.
And throw in the BDSM scene and the movie industry, believe me Dex, sometimes it’s best we don’t know their names from the mundane dimension 🙂
Regarding that assault weapons ban: All it EVER was was pandering to the frightened masses. Period. They made the noise so scared people could feel safe from the big bad scary guns. Even the law NY state passed was comprised of “make people feel safe” bullshit.
As has been mentioned often, this, or parts of it, can be brought back as an amendment later. Additionally, just about all the provisions such as registration, “gun show loophole” and mag capacity are also still floating out there in other bills, mostly proposed by McCarthy in the house.
I suspect this is more of a calculated Dem game. Drop the big bill and yell to the press about how the mean Republicans wouldn’t work across the isle to save the chilluns, then backroom deal for the smaller pieces that made up the big bill. For example, they now have many gun owners believing that 100% background checks won’t be that bad.
I would have preferred this had come to a vote, so the anti-gun senators on the hot seat of pending re-election in more moderate states would be on the record as having voted for it.
Gun Rights = Civil Rights, it’s a shame so many in congress can’t understand this basic fact.
Note that the NRA also didn’t believe that 100% background checks would be bad, at one point. Personally, I have no problem with it in theory. If I could know that anybody I’d ever sell a gun to was legally allowed to buy one, that’d be great by me. The problem I have is in practice. Until the ATF stops violating Federal law by hanging on to 4473s outside of criminal investigations, it’s out of the question as far as I’m concerned.
100% background checks are totally awesome, so long as we also require all records of the background check and sale to be immediately destroyed/never taken down in the first place.
I used to work as security at a swingers club. every once in a while I have to remind people don’t get offended if I don’t say hello first.
1)odds are I don’t recognize you in full daylight. or sober. or with your clothes on.
2)I’m not going to greet you in front of your family/friends/ect and force you to have to come up with an answer to “who was that?”
now, if they come up to me, different story.
I still don’t like the possibility of limiting mag capacity. If it was something reasonable, ok, but I’m pretty sure ALL of my handgun mags are larger than 10 rounds, and that’s not a lot of shots when you’re having to reload constantly at the range. >:/ I realize that they’re not going to take my mags, but at least one of my pistols needs a replacement. Grr.
Problem is, what sounds reasonable to anybody who has ever fired a gun on a range, and sounds essential to anybody who is familiar with lethality and terminal ballistics, sounds thoroughly unreasonable to somebody who gets all of their gun knowledge from TV and movies. On a related note, here in Pennsylvania the state ranges have 3-round magazine limits for rifles (6-round for pistols). At least I get lots of practice at changing magazines!
You see a similar phenomenon between those familiar and unfamiliar with guns when a news report talks about how the latest shooter had thousands of rounds of ammunition at his house. Those unfamiliar with guns assume this is obvious proof of nefarious intent. Those familiar with guns know how much ammo a typical range trip goes through, and that people buy in bulk rather than spending a fortune buying 20-round boxes. (Personally, I’d wish active shooters WOULD carry thousands of rounds of ammo with them, especially since they don’t usually seem to be built like linebackers. It’s a lot harder to be dangerous when you can barely move.)
Takes the notion of teacher’s using corporal punishment to a different level.
Not just teachers…. librarians, too. (;
Agreed
Source: I married one
This one time (not at band camp), after having spent a day correctly nude, in the company of the co-workers who invited me, way out in the desert at the “Deep-crik” hot springs, I saw one of my fellow Snow Summit employees at work, and actually did blurt out, after a minute of non-recognition
without thinking,
“Oh wow, I didn’t recognize you with your clothes on!”
I could have pulled a last-second verbal save and said “in uniform”.
But noooooo, not me 😛
Yeah. I get that a lot. But… I’m a twin. So, I usually try and ask them where they know me from. That helps me know if it’s someone from a mutual social group or one of her other sets…
I frequently see my kids’ former preschool teacher at a local biker bar. When she was teaching my kids I thought she was pretty straight-laced, but either she hid her outside life well or she’s cut loose a bit since leaving teaching.
In any case, if she’d dressed for school the way she dresses for the bar I think she’d have every dad showing up for parent-teacher conferences!
yes, teachers do have a life outside of teaching, and it is often odder than you would imagine.