Yep, not as many gals tripping me and beating me to the ground anymore.....
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Yep, not as many gals tripping me and beating me to the ground anymore.....
This is a fun topic.
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My buddy (a vegetable farmer) says the same thing...He feels people see right through him when he has farm clothes on, so he always makes it a point to dress up to go to town.
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Now I've been semi retired since 2003 and fully retired since since 2016 ...and I tend to dress like a farmer most days. I don't seem to notice any difference if I am dressed up or not.
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I think it's more of a introvert-extrovert thing. I don't really care if I am ignored in public. If I feel the need to connect/communicate with someone, I confront them, whether they are seemingly ignoring me or not. Yes, I am a loud and boisterous type of fellow that people can't ignore if I demand their attention...be that good or bad. My friend, on the other hand, will wait for 'cues' for people to acknowledge his presence and if he never does get noticed, he gets all worked up about it.
Around here, the glassy eyed soft heads with a phone surgically imbedded in their hand pretty well stay home or are at Walmart.
Everywhere else, people of all ages are friendly, respectful, helpful, and engaging.
I'm quick to say 'hello', however;
I'm careful about asking older people how they're doing.
They can't wait to tell you (all their gross medical conditions), and ya really don't want to know.
Being invisible and having people think you are stupid is a super power.
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Walked into one store yesterday and one this morning and was greeted nicely by multiple folks. Most of them were over 40 or so and all working, but it is nice to be seen. I'm an engineer by degree, and location manager at last position, almost always wore a tie, close to 40 years. Since retirement it is jeans and flannel or plain shirt, summer is t-shirt if hot. Don't really care if the kids see me or not, most have their head stuck up their ass looking at their phones... I still do enough of that myself, but not out in public.
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Agreed, but my invisibility is uncontrolled, and unpredictable.....I have a nasty habit of appearing next to people and scaring the bejeebers out of them!
In a Jim Harrison book, his backwoods character goes to the city and stands out like a sore thumb- his perfect disguise is green utility dungarees. Assumed to be maintenance where ever he goes. (BrownDog)
Personally, when I am going to deal face to face with customer service people - I tuck a pant leg into my sock. Makes them underestimate their enemy.
I love my Carhart Camouflage...I'm happy to be invisible and I really don't give a **** what people think of me.
Hello Thumb. Welcome to the time in life where we feel useless but are not. Being older than you, and retired for 10 yrs now, it does get better. You worked all your life for this moment but the changes we go through can leave us wondering just what happened, but that too will pass. I spend time reloading and enjoying my guns and yes I still buy one now and then although my Wife says I don't need another. She is right of course, but that itch remains to have one I always wanted, if it's a 44 Special!
Interesting thoughts, here in my little part of West Texas no one dresses other than jeans and t-shirts, sometimes not changing them for weeks it seems/looks like. Though I'm 68 I'm still running a construction crew so even with clean clothes on I'm usually dirty before leaving the house. Sitting at our little country store talking to the girls I always feel everything but invisible to the tourists that stop in, I always feel like I'm getting stared at, course my West Texas damn near burnt black tan, dirty nails, and clothes may make me look like something they heard about in the city, afraid I might bite ;) And with that when I go out and about I always get the nod from the men knowing I gotta be a local, and a smile from the ladies!
If the "invisible thing" really bothers you, go to the store & buy a slicing cucumber. Tuck said cucumber in your underwear, I promise you will get "noticed"! Of course the reaction will vary depending on whether you tuck it in the front or back.....:lol:
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I prefer being the invisible man. I appear slow, fat, old, and as non threatening as possible. I’m even learning to smile as I size up the threat level around me.
That is happening everywhere in the US regardless of age or appearance. It is a product of the left and a direct result of their disdain for basic respect for others. I see it more in the cities, but it is happening in the rural areas just slower. The left wants us to accept everyone and everything, yet they have zero respect for anyone or anything.
You have become invisible to them because they don't respect you. The sad reality is that given a chance most of these types want to erase you and everyone that doesn't suffer their form of mental illness.
Bunch of kids saw me last weekend...well,at least for a while?
Cpl 3D bow shoots,neither had the normal senior stake so I shot with guys a 1/3rd my age. Anyway they caught a glimpse of carbon fibre and a touch of gray before I left them for dead on the score card.
Heck,I have tournament bows older than some of them,haha.
I am 74 and I have always worked at being invisible. Being invisible allows me to study others without them studying me.