It's true that people react to you differently depending on how you're dressed. In the default world, I got a job as a cubicle drone; at first I wore normal office attire like everyone else, and people made fake-friendly gestures or ignored me, like everyone else. But once I started wearing my normal clothes, I've been getting a broad range of reactions, from people who are afraid to make eye contact to people who laugh and loosen up to me.
I've done the experiment before of going somewhere mundane, say a grocery store or video rental place, decked out in my best playa-worthy wear, just for the reactions. It's definitely one way to tell the closed minded from those who have potential- I love being able to jostle people out of the box of "the norm"! Once they start thinking "why not?" who knows what's possible??
accidental social experiment
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actually, she is.muleyredux wrote:your mom is a metaphysical mystical trip of wonderment and awe...cowboyangel wrote:not...if you go to a game with me. then it is a metaphysical mystical trip of wonderment and awe...
and no, this is the first time I used that line. I've got a big bag of other lines however...
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believe is false."- William Casey, CIA Director 1981
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