I'll let her tell "the story" of our entertainment on the race course.
We had a wonderful evening at V&A to celebrate our anniversaries. Her and I had quite the buzz on after dinner from the wine pairing. I'm amazed they let us into MK for EMH. Nancy
We got back very late last night and I spent most of the morning doing laundry and going through mail. It was great to see so many WISHers! I finally got to meet Corinna but was disappointed that I never met Jim. We were unable to attend the meet at POR so I also missed out on meeting alot of the newbies.
Nancy and I had a great race and a really fun time. As usual we got into some very deep mischief due to a MAJOR episode of foot and mouth disease on my part. I am totally regretting it only because the object of my misassumption was actually a very nice person and I wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Unfortunately, I didn't realize it until we were in the parking lot after the race was over. It is actually quite a funny story and typical of the sort of situation i'm always finding myself into. Here is my account and Nancy can embellish or correct it if I don't have it right. We were pretty much in a loose pack with alot of WISH walkers when this guy nearby gets the wonderful idea that he is going to sing "99 bottles of beer on the wall" to make the race go faster. Nancy and i decide we are NOT going to listen to that and break away to get away from the guy singing. It's probably around Mile 3 or so. We meetup with this very tall lady(?) and another woman who are walking at a very nice and constant pace so we decide to follow them. The woman(?) is very attractive and is wearing full make-up and has her hair perfectly styled. She is also VERY tall (over 6ft, 3 inches I found out later). Well, when she opens her mouth to speak, the voice is just not right. And just like Lola, she walks like a woman, but she talks like a man. Nancy and I are convinced that our new walking buddy is actually a transsexual. Apparently this lady has done most of the Disney events and ALL of the Goofy races. She lives in FL, so I ask if she works for Disney and she laughs and tells us she is retired. So Nancy and I are trying to figure out how she can be retired at so young an age without being outright nosey about it. Then she starts talking about her "husband" and i'm trying tp figure out if he is male or female or maybe even the gal she is running with. So we finally exchange names and I hear what is a VERY MALE name so I get the AHA! confirmation that I am right. Of course, Nancy (who apparently has better hearing) heard something else, but at this point I am thinking OK I am right, the lady really IS a dude and if her name is what she just told me then she's not hiding anything. Finally at MGM she slips into a bathroom (lady's room, I am quick to note) and tells us she will catch up. I remark to her friend that she is "gorgeous" which means I am politely commenting that her transformation (surgery?) has been very successful. Then the friend informs us that although the lady will never volunteer this information, she was one of the original American Gladiators. She tells us she was "(and i hear same male name)" on the show. And my brilliant response to her is, "Wow, was she a she or a he back then?"
(One of these days i will learn to control my mouth) Well the friend looks at me like I am a total nutcase and says "She was a she, of course!" Then the lady catches back up with us and I don't say anything else, but I do continue to address her by the male name I think she told me and now I am totally confused. After the race, Nancy and I were telling John the story, and that's when I first realized I heard the name wrong. Nancy did not realize I was addressing her with a male name until we were talking to John. She seems to think that all the testosterone she probably took to bulk up gave her secondary male attribites, but personally I still really think she is a man. I have purposely NOT told you the actual name, because people sometimes Google themselves and I would not want to hurt this person's feelings by reading what I just wrote because they were both very nice to us. I just hope her friend never tells her what I said.
I hope to read the RR soon. I am assuming they will be on the RR thread....
My dog had a cone for 2 weeks and she was a big golden. Watch your calves, because when they plow into you with that cone on it really hurts!! Once she practically scooped up my DD who was about 3 at the time. Knocked her right over!!!
