Wacky adventures in coming out at the office

[mousme]

So I'm mostly out at the office, as mentioned in a previous post. I have no doubt there are still many people there who don't know/don't especially care about my sexual orientation. I don't exactly come in with rainbow triangles stitched to my clothing, and I don't have a Gay Pride coffee mug or anything, but I don't hide who I am either. I'm just circumspect about my personal life, whether it be who I date or anything else about what I do in my spare time, thank you very much.

Anyway, the night shift girls and I were having a fun chat about Random Colour's upcoming gig on the 19th of May when the tracker's supervisor came in. After blowing his mind with the fact that I was the drummer in a band, and then further blowing his mind with the fact that I was the drummer in an all-girl band, I proceeded to break him completely.

Tracker's Supervisor: "So you're all girls on stage?"

Me: "Yep."

TS: "Do you have, like, band t-shirts or something?"

Me: "No. We wear corsets."

*pause while the four girls try to explain what a corset is to TS*

TS: "You're kidding! I've gotta come see this now!"

Me: "Yeah, well, we're not exactly a big draw for the single male crowd, being four married women and a lesbian."

TS: *pause* "I'll take the lesbian."

*pause as all the girls turn to look at me*

Me: *grinning from ear to ear* Martin, that's me.

*all the girls collapse in giggles*

I haven't laughed that hard in months. I laughed until I cried and my stomach cramped up. The look on the poor guy's face was priceless. I will admit that I shamelessly set him up, once I realized he hadn't figured out I was gay (I honestly thought he knew), and he walked right into it.

It took a good twenty minutes for everyone to stop laughing enough to be able to talk properly again.

Sometimes I love my coworkers. :D

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Er... read, not hear. I'm not omnipresent but I do often get my verbs confused on LJ. ;D