YOB: #22. Dress Up For Fast Food (Part 2)
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 7:00AM MAD21 By Beth
Don't ask where this one came from. Somewhere in our sick, twisted brains we came up with the idea to dress up and eat at a fast food restaurant. Now, when I say dress up, what comes to mind? When we planned this one, I think Lara and I were both thinking much more elaborately dressed up than what actually happened. But clothing budgets aside, I think we both realized that prom dresses at 30 would be a little depressing. So we both had our Sunday best on and Lara's parents joined us at Wendy's for dinner one night.
I'll admit to being a little disappointed in this one. We didn't get nearly the kind of reaction we were hoping for. In fact, no one really paid us much mind at all. We looked too normal. The only thing that was odd was that we brought our own vase and flower and we took pictures. We simply looked like we were on our way home from a wedding or something.
The worst part about the whole night was the stockings. I'd like to find the man (and it's got to be a man, a woman wouldn't do this to her own kind) who decided that women needed to wear stockings with skirts and dresses and hang him by a pair. It's no less than he deserves. I hate stockings and purposely avoid them at all costs. The last time, before going to Wendy's, that I wore stockings voluntarily was the day I dislocated my knee cap at church and spent the afternoon in the emergency room. The time before that was probably a prom. You do not want to hear those stories. Stockings are evil.
In lieu of the rather abysmal reaction we got when we "dressed up" I would suggest a different kind of apparel. Chicken or ape suits, stuff from our friend's Hootie Hoo shop, or maybe something we've each made ourselves. I'll keep you posted as to whether that happens. I do have plans to buy an ape suit this fall and sit behind my bushes on Halloween and scare kids as they come to trick or treat. So I'd already have the costume…
[Editor's Note: In case you missed Lara's version of the story, go catch it at YOB: #22. Dress Up For Fast Food]
Reader Comments (2)
Do NOT scare me with an ape suit. I would NOT think that was funny. That's TERRIFYING. Just FYI.
You don't trick or treat at my house anyway, and we mostly get college students so they deserve to be scared. I may just have to show up at your house in the suit though, just b/c you told me not to scare you. Mwahahahaha!