Mistaken guest genders. . .

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:11 pm

I was working at Splash photo (the past few nights, actually), and I had a guest that came up to me, wanting to purchase HER (thought it was a HIM) picture. . .

She was an asian woman, had masculine features. She carried herself in THE EXACT same manner as a feminine, homosexual male (ie. .stereotypical flamer {sorry if I offended anyone, I'm not intending to AT ALL}). She then asked if APs get their discount, I asked to see the AP, and she showed it. I thought it belonged to one of the 2 young girls that was with her, as I didn't pay attention to the picture. I granted the discount, and she wanted to pay w/ her bank card. I then asked to see ID. . .she showed it to me, and stupid me ACTUALLY asked:

"Excuse me, is this your wife's?"

She didn't get all pissed off at me or anything, she just calmly said "oh no, it's me. . . "

Talk about a stupid CM. . .I know we all have seen "gender questionable" guests, but to actually SAY something other than "excuse me sir" (to a female), every CM that heard about it, I guess was the highlight of their night.

reivaX · Post by **reivaX** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 1:25 am

i hate

the little boys with long hair and overalls with girley names like ashley
the infant boys dressed in pastels
little girls with short spikey hair

i called a little boy pricess and he look at his mom and said, "Mom, he called me pricess!"

and began to cry

cut the boy's hair he looks like a hippie..

:NOTE: I have disney standard long hair too and look like a hippie

FebruaryStar02 · Post by **FebruaryStar02** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:44 am

I did that the other day. It was an African-American kid, 11 or 2, with no real gender specific features, but wearing an oversized pastel pink shirt and the same pink baseball cap to the side. I said "She" like five times before I figured it out...it was a boy. Crap...

leftcoaster · Post by **leftcoaster** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:13 am

FebruaryStar02 wrote:I did that the other day. It was an African-American kid, 11 or 2, with no real gender specific features, but wearing an oversized pastel pink shirt and the same pink baseball cap to the side. I said "She" like five times before I figured it out...it was a boy. Crap...

Well, with names like Lakisha, Tyrill, and URINE 'ur-rine' (I SWEAR!) sometimes it's hard to tell, like Serena and Venus Williams.

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:44 pm

leftcoaster wrote:
Well, with names like Lakisha, Tyrill, and URINE 'ur-rine' (I SWEAR!) sometimes it's hard to tell, like Serena and Venus Williams.

After a while, you can distinguish between male and female names that Africans have.

Lakisha is actually quite feminine, but LaQwon can be questionable at first. Tyrill actually sounds more like a male.

You've acutally seen a name of "Ur-rine?" geez. . if you're going to name your kid that, can you at least spell it different? Maybe more like Eureen or something.

lady ulrike · Post by **lady ulrike** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 7:04 pm

I actually have a friend who heard a kid being called for at the Matterhorn. Her name was Aquanetta. (very true, I promise)

Grumpy · Post by **Grumpy** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:53 am

lady ulrike wrote:I actually have a friend who heard a kid being called for at the Matterhorn. Her name was Aquanetta. (very true, I promise)

Did she look like she was born in the late 80s to early 90s, and her mom happened to use AquaNet like there was no tomorrow?

leftcoaster · Post by **leftcoaster** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 5:45 am

Grumpy wrote:
leftcoaster wrote:
Well, with names like Lakisha, Tyrill, and URINE 'ur-rine' (I SWEAR!) sometimes it's hard to tell, like Serena and Venus Williams.
After a while, you can distinguish between male and female names that Africans have.

Lakisha is actually quite feminine, but LaQwon can be questionable at first. Tyrill actually sounds more like a male.

You've acutally seen a name of "Ur-rine?" geez. . if you're going to name your kid that, can you at least spell it different? Maybe more like Eureen or something.

True, but I don't go around attempting to figure out those kind of names.

Well, I didn't see the name "Urine," I just heard it. But, I can only imagine the spelling. :roll:

You know, there was a study done with names and resumes. Unique names did not fair too well, which goes to show you that you can't have your cake and eat it too.

lady ulrike · Post by **lady ulrike** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 8:59 pm

I don't know since I wasn't the one who actually saw the kid, but my guess is that her mom did use a lot of Aqua Net in the '80s (Heck, who in the '80s didn't?)

leftcoaster · Post by **leftcoaster** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:39 pm

lady ulrike wrote:I don't know since I wasn't the one who actually saw the kid, but my guess is that her mom did use a lot of Aqua Net in the '80s (Heck, who in the '80s didn't?)

Are you sure it wasn't Afro-sheen ?