Post Punk Kitchen Forum

I'll start. This was said to me about two weeks ago and it has been in my head ever since.
I was talking to basically a stranger and we got on the topic of diet. He said he was vegetarian and I said I was vegan.
His response was "Oh, so you don't shave do you?" Which just seemed so random. Of all the things you can ask me when I say I am vegan you ask that? (The answer is sometimes when I feel like it or I remember).

Your turn.

I've never heard that one before! I will have to think about mine.

The Iraqis tell me all the time that I am too skinny and I should eat meat. But not rice, because rice will make me fat. ???

I would never associate being vegan with not shaving. How strange!

That is super bizarre, kfad.

Not that recently, but about 6 months ago a lady I work with walked by my desk, and my desktop was showing - it had a picture of a cute baby cow on it.
Lady: "Why would you want that picture on your desktop? I thought you were vegan."
Me: "I am."
Lady: "So, why would you want to look at a cow?"
Me: "Because I love cows!"
Lady: "But I thought you were vegan!"
Me: *puzzled look*

Well that's because she's a damn dirty hippy.

YEP! At least I think that was where he was going.

You are supposed to show your cow love by eating hamburgers.

You're only supposed to like the animals you eat!

Oh come on, everyone knows that the reason vegans don't consume animal products is because we hate animals, right?

I guess that goes with the hippy/tree-hugging/smelly/punk association that veganism's usually stereotyped with. :/

At work a customer asked me: "So, is this 'just a job', or do you..." and then he makes these sideways eyes and whispers, "like flowers or something?"

I think it was his way of asking if I was one of those gays.

yes! i like to boycott things i don't like....walmart, animals, etc. ;)

About a week and a half ago I was getting off the plane to Germany and leaving the baggage claim area with my suitcases. A guy (taxi driver) comes up to me.
Him: Do you need a taxi?
Me: Yes please!
Him: Here, I'll take your bags. Are you American?
Me: Yeah, I am.
Him: Oooh, so are you in the army?
Me: ???? No.....

I found this to be especially odd because looks-wise I pretty much look like a little girl and I was wearing a little flowery dress and had nothing army-like about me. (Maybe I'm just being stereotypical?)

At work a week or two ago a woman came through my checkout line and told me she thought my hair was cute, then said, "I have to ask: is it a wig?" I guess her reasoning is that my hair is pretty obviously artificial black and it's almost Halloween and I had some skulls and stuff on too, but I mean, my roots were showing pretty obviously...I thought it was hilarious.

Wait...what?

did you go to art school?
uh no.
you just have that art school vibe about you! whatever, be yourself don't let anyone tell you anything!

I'm guessing that happened because of this -- I was also asked if I was in the service when I went to Germany. I think Germany is the most beautiful place in the world.

Two recent oddities:
Random dude walks up to me at the hippie grocery store and says, no shiitake, "Are you really into water?"
What? Water? Like swimming?
"Yes, exactly."
No, I'm terrified of water. I haven't gone swimming since I was forced to in high school.
"That's a shame! You have such a water aura around you."
THAT'S WHAT I GET FOR SHOPPING AT THE CO-OP

Also, had a dude who said he was a chef at a super-locavore restaurant (one of those places that's proud about having a whole dead pig hanging out in the kitchen) insist that I wasn't vegan because I eat... bread.
He got visibly angry when I insisted that yeast are part of the Fungi kingdom, and thus not prohibited from our diets. He raised his voice and said, "Yeast is ALIVE!" Yeah, well, so are babies and grass and twigs, and I eat those things all the time.

...what.

In college, one of my very best friends was repeatedly asked if he was a drama major. It made him crazy.

i get asked if i go to art school alot. or if i am in college. i'm past my college years i thinks. i was an older student too.

This wasn't recent but when I worked at a liquor store I once had a lady come up to my till and tell me that I looked really fresh, like I just got out of the shower. I wasn't sure if I should feel flattered or creeped out.

Creepy!

One time I stopped at a gas station for directions and this guy in there told me I had pretty eyes and he would like to take a ride with me. I declined his offer.

I once walked into a convenience store after getting gas and was asked in an accusatory tone by a store employee why I wasn't in school that day.

(I was 28 at the time.)

I was on the elevator a few minutes ago, and out of the blue the guy riding with me said "You don't look like you climb poles, but I'm sure you'd have an audience if you did!"

Thanks, I guess?