Sunday, October 31, 2004 everyone is dressed funny
Saturday I dressed up for work, sort of. My plans for a really good "sexy bullfrog costume" really derailed themselves during the month of October. First I got the wrong size flippers, and then I never got around to getting green make-up, or goggles, or much of anything else I needed. Maybe next year. When it happens, it's going to be so good.
Without my frog costume, dressing up seemed a little lame, but I felt like enough of my co-workers were doing it that I had to make the effort. I support Halloween, and sometimes you have to look like an asshole for something you support.
I went to work in my pajamas and my own authentically slept-on hair. The stylists who were there early were pleased, and one of them ratted up my hair more convincingly. It stuck straight up on one side.
Half the people who came in didn't realize I was in costume. Customers smiled politely at me or gave me sideways looks: we are in Baltimore, and it is conceivable that someone would come to work in her pajamas, with crazy crackhead hair. Several of the stylists who came on later told me that they'd initially seen my hair without noticing the rest of my outfit and thought, "Oh, God, what has she done?" I gave them a genuine Halloween scare!
One of the customers said, "Well, it sure took you a long time to get dressed this morning." I gave the dippy line I gave everybody: something like "Heh, heh. Well, I figure this is the one day a year I can get away with this." (I find my workday goes quicker if I just come up with a few things to repeat endlessly.) He said, "No, no, it's very creative. The pajamas, the hair, the face! Very good." And then he left.
The face?
Asshole.
Happy Halloween!
posted by Frenz | 10/31/2004 05:53:00 PM
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