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Dear Driver of the giant white SUV;
Yes, I'm sure you wanted to turn left the instant you possibly could. However, when the crosswalk signal shows the glowy white-lit person, that means pedestrians get to cross. Also, if you slam on your brakes and call out "Sorry, I didn't see you!" to a person wearing a black and pink outfit with petticoats and a top hat, perhaps you (a) need to get your eyes checked, (b) should pay more attention to your surroundings, (c) not be allowed behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, or (d) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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Dear very "fashion-forward" lady I saw in the cafeteria;
Yes, I'm sure that my black and pink Victorian Cupcake Gothic outfit perplexed you. But you were the one wearing a flesh-colored tank-top under an ivory lace tunic that had an elasticized hem so that it gathered in billowy poofs at your hips. With metallic forest green skinny jeans and orange heels. *I* at least had the self-control not to gawp in vaguely horrified confusion at you, unlike your reaction to me.
Yes, I'm sure you wanted to turn left the instant you possibly could. However, when the crosswalk signal shows the glowy white-lit person, that means pedestrians get to cross. Also, if you slam on your brakes and call out "Sorry, I didn't see you!" to a person wearing a black and pink outfit with petticoats and a top hat, perhaps you (a) need to get your eyes checked, (b) should pay more attention to your surroundings, (c) not be allowed behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, or (d) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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Dear very "fashion-forward" lady I saw in the cafeteria;
Yes, I'm sure that my black and pink Victorian Cupcake Gothic outfit perplexed you. But you were the one wearing a flesh-colored tank-top under an ivory lace tunic that had an elasticized hem so that it gathered in billowy poofs at your hips. With metallic forest green skinny jeans and orange heels. *I* at least had the self-control not to gawp in vaguely horrified confusion at you, unlike your reaction to me.
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Not.
Btw, I thought of you at BayCon. In fact, I bought you a little something at BayCon because I saw it and immediately thought of you. So, now, we must get together for lunch or dinner.
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May I quote the first one? The bit about the driver supposedly "not seeing" you in your distinctive outfit is too funny not to share!
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That woman's outfit sounds absolutely atrocious. Seriously, she wore that in a place where people were trying to eat? Blech.
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P.S. I miss you!
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(It is, however, metal.)
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Ooo! Ooo! Was Miss FF all orange?
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This would be why I look *backwards* for my fashion.
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Yeah, probably not. But I can fantasize...
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you were the one wearing a flesh-colored tank-top under an ivory lace tunic that had an elasticized hem so that it gathered in billowy poofs at your hips. With metallic forest green skinny jeans and orange heels.
*SHUDDERS VIOLENTLY*
Oh... no. Just... no.
Were the orange heels patent leather, perchance?
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That, is saying quite a lot.
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They should call their catalog, "Retro Trainwrecks R Us."
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I just had a really bad flashback to high school. Nothing I ever wore, thank the gods, but there are more than a few people in my yearbook who are immortalized forever in garb like that. And the Madonna Boy Toy-era look. And Prince/Purple Rain. And Michael Jackson/Thriller. And Def Leppard Union Jack muscle shirts.
Yep, the mid-80s were baaaaaad for the fashion.
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And don't forget the whole 'winter shorts' trend!
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Or Miami Vice. And I LIVED in Miami at the time. I still can't look at a pastel blazer or Italian loafers without giggling.
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And by "win," I mean "FAIL."
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Also, a lolita friend of mine really *did* managed to get hit by a car in much the same way (guy turning, not looking), which is like... could she have been any more conspicuously dressed?! I really think these people should have their licensed pulled immediately! If you can't see a lady in voluminous petticoats, then you also won't be able to see school children crossing!!!
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/checks box
That's my vote and I'm sticking to it!
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The "fashion-forward" lady sounds as if she is in serious need of a fashion intervention. Just the description of her outfit is sending me into shudders and might induce nightmares.
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Scarlet and family
P.S. Yes, you should write a book full of these!
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I'm shaking my head down here.
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You have a project for me.
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a flesh-colored tank-top under an ivory lace tunic ... With metallic forest green skinny jeans and orange heels
You should take pictures of such crazy things! I need to see them. ;)
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I was recently followed around a charity shop by a child who couldn't have been more than nine, gawping at me. And not in that 'kid being cute, big-eyed goggling at the lady with the funny hair' but the nasty 'burn the freak, burn the freak' variety of gawping.
I *should*, I really, really s*should* have found the adult in charge of the bratand pointed out that it's their job to teac them that staring is rude, but was already in a fould mood and didn't trust myself to handle the encounter with grace. But, I will not be made to feel a social outcast by some sprog who isn't out of kindergarten!
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This is why you are cool.
For this above, today you are my hero.. LOL.