That Was A Close One

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Hi everybody

I have to share yet another airheaded thing I did this morning.

So I am driving to work this morning, just tooling away on the highway.

I have my favorite radio station on and I am just singing along.

I am about half way to work and I happen to notice something.....

Dang!!! I still have my nailpolish on my fingernails!!!

I had to quickly get off the next exit and find a grocery store to get nailpolish remover.

So here I am in my company's parking lot quickly removing my nail polish (I am already a little late for my 9:00am meeting).

I walk into work with traces of nailpolish around the edges of my fingernails.

Another Brenda moment

Love

Brenda

[Guest Donna Jean]

LOL!

Thats a good one, Sweetheart!

I have those moments, too...

You'd look weird sitting there in that meeting with your hands in your pocket the whole time....

And it's hard to take notes...........LOL

Be careful, Hon....

LOVE

Donna Jean

[Carolyn Marie]

LOL! Living a dual life sux, doesn't it Brenda?

Alls well that ends well, I say. If anyone asks about the remnants of the polish, just tell them

you were painting your room and couldn't get it all off.

Of course, they would wonder why you were painting your room hot pink!

Carolyn Marie

[Sally]

I never have any of those moments Brenda, at least not involving nail polish - now having your braclets and a female jacket on when you go to the door to get your pizza is another matter.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest ChloëC]

"I am about half way to work and I happen to notice something.....

Dang!!! I still have my nailpolish on my fingernails!!!"

um, well, Brenda, I also have been there and done that. And other times noticed a faint trace along the cuticles.

I've also taken my shoes and socks off at night and looked down and...oops! Glad I wasn't at the gym playing basketball in the Men's League.

Oh well. One of those endearing, special moments that make our lives exciting!

Hugs

Chloë

[Guest Charlene_Leona]

Brenda I had that happen at a photo shoot right after I start my transition and got questioned about it by my boss, glad it hasn't outed you in any way thought like it did to me. Imagine what it would of been like if you noticed it during the meeting at the same time as your coworkers.

Take Care

Charlene Leona

[Guest sarah f]

Like Charlene Leona said at least you noticed it on the way to work and not at the office when you can't do anything about it. How did you get the smell of the nail polish remover off of your hands? It is usually hard to get the smell off of your hands without lotion or washing with soap a couple of times. Anyway glad you noticed before anyone noticed.

Love,

Sarah F

[Paula ult]

Well Brenda it could been much worse, you could have gotten to work and in your meeting before you noticed.

I work from home and a few times before i was out at work i almost said this is Paula and that was to my manager, it would have been fun explaining that one.

Paula

[Guest Donna Jean]

LOL.....

Well, I don't know how close this one is yet....

I typed a purchase order on my computer to Siemens Energy Controls..

Typed my name at the bottom..."Donna Jean"...hit send....

Later on in the day I printed a copy out for my file...that's when I saw it!

OMG!

I'm so used to typing "Donna Jean" here all the time that it's become second nature....

Oh my!

Donna Jean

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Like Charlene Leona said at least you noticed it on the way to work and not at the office when you can't do anything about it. How did you get the smell of the nail polish remover off of your hands? It is usually hard to get the smell off of your hands without lotion or washing with soap a couple of times. Anyway glad you noticed before anyone noticed.

Love,

Sarah F

Hi Sweetie

Actually nailpolish remover evaporates quickly and consequently the smell. No one noticed any smell (at least no one mentioned it). I did not smell anything either (I am actually very sensitive to smells). By the time I walked from my car to the building, I had nothing to worry about.

When I realized that I was near work with my nail polish still on, I knew that I had come real close to walking right into work with my nails a blaze, and completely oblivious. That is why I titled the topic "That Was A Close One" meaning that I understood how close I came to outing myself to the entire management staff all at once

I can be such an airhead sometimes. It is only a matter of time when I completely space and do something really stupid, and then the cat will be out of the bag. A couple of months ago I emailed a co-worker and signed off with "HUGS ren". I know that many people already suspect something (I wont go into details now, but there has been many indications).

Oh well, life goes on.

Brenda

[Guest Victoriaf]

Well the only thing that has happened to me up to this point was to explain why I was wearing Pantyhose. At least that is all up to this point. I am sure there will be many many more things that happen to me

Victoria

[Guest sarah f]

Dee Jay, I have the same problem. I am always double guessing myself as to what name I signed on this site and at work. It makes you crazy sometimes. I can't wait until I can go by just one name and not have to worry about the other anymore.

Love,

Sarah F

[Guest Katrina Reann]

When I was younger and still living at home with the parents I got dressed up head to toenails. Mom and dad had gone for the day "supposedly!!" After I had gotten fully dressed I decided to have a few drinks, well a few drinks ended up being three sheets in the wind..lol...Well I ended up passing out in my chair which was in my room where my door was wide open. See where this is going yet?? Yep, ma and pa came home! Mom seen me and dad heard about it from mom but didn't want to see for himself. So I had to come clean with them. I tried to think a way out of that one, but my head was throbbing from a feww too many drinks...lol. I don't know which is funnier they way I was outed or the fact I tried to think of a way out...lol

[Guest Chandra]

Dear Brenda,

These are the risks we all take to fit with mainstream society, so deception or misinformation sometimes works.

eyeliner is my nemesis, if I spot some on me I try to put small black smudges here and there so they think I have been working on a car or something. Rubbing hard does not work as this leaves red marks or even blood and scabs,

In your case a little red here and there might suggest you have been painting something.

Don't think you are alone with this one eh.

[Guest NatalieRene]

LOL! Living a dual life sux, doesn't it Brenda?

Alls well that ends well, I say. If anyone asks about the remnants of the polish, just tell them

you were painting your room and couldn't get it all off.

Of course, they would wonder why you were painting your room hot pink!

Carolyn Marie

The easy way to shrug off the pink is to say you must not have mixed the paint well enough in the can. Because a unmixed can of paint has some really out there colors in it. The blue paint I used for my basement unmixed has some distinct traces of purple in it.

Or you could also say you let your daughter practice on you or she did it to you while you where sleeping as a prank.

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

Hi Sweetie

Actually nailpolish remover evaporates quickly and consequently the smell. No one noticed any smell (at least no one mentioned it). I did not smell anything either (I am actually very sensitive to smells). By the time I walked from my car to the building, I had nothing to worry about.

When I realized that I was near work with my nail polish still on, I knew that I had come real close to walking right into work with my nails a blaze, and completely oblivious. That is why I titled the topic "That Was A Close One" meaning that I understood how close I came to outing myself to the entire management staff all at once

I can be such an airhead sometimes. It is only a matter of time when I completely space and do something really stupid, and then the cat will be out of the bag. A couple of months ago I emailed a co-worker and signed off with "HUGS ren". I know that many people already suspect something (I wont go into details now, but there has been many indications).

Oh well, life goes on.

Brenda

My first and last initials are the same as my birth name, however I have a different middle initial. For some reason, before I was fully out at work and still going by my old name I initialed the cash sign off (the till tally sheet) JMP not my old initials. Boy did I have some explaining to do why I used those when my old initials were JCP. That was the day I finally fully outed myself, I figured that if I was starting to make mess ups like that my manager had best know the full truth. I had told her in generalities before but now I had to give her the full low down.

[Guest scooby]

smiling x

scooby x

[Guest Elizabeth K]

EARRINGS!

I would always wear them in the car to work - and take them out before I would go in. I forgot !

Not once but three times!

Fortunately they were gold hoop types - that I 'explained away" (yeah right!)

I had to stop wearing them to work! DARN and Dang and Dad-gum it!

Lizzy

[Guest sarah f]

I have had the same problem Lizzy. I used to wear them while I drove to work so that I can have them when I leave. The only problem with that is if you have ever worn earings for a while you don't feel them anymore and forget they are there. You always have to be on your toes. Luckily everyone at work knows that I have had my ears pierced for a very long time. They just give me a hard time as to why I am wearing them.

Sarah F

[Guest Janessa]

When I was younger and still living at home with the parents I got dressed up head to toenails. Mom and dad had gone for the day "supposedly!!" After I had gotten fully dressed I decided to have a few drinks, well a few drinks ended up being three sheets in the wind..lol...Well I ended up passing out in my chair which was in my room where my door was wide open. See where this is going yet?? Yep, ma and pa came home! Mom seen me and dad heard about it from mom but didn't want to see for himself. So I had to come clean with them. I tried to think a way out of that one, but my head was throbbing from a feww too many drinks...lol. I don't know which is funnier they way I was outed or the fact I tried to think of a way out...lol

I did something similar once. I was off school for holiday and my brother was at my dads house, so I was all alone at my moms house. So I decided I would dress up. I did not get drunk; instead I was actually very tired but for some reason or another did not realize it, so I fell asleep. My mom gets home about 6:00, and when I woke up it was like 5:40. I was like "Zomg!", because I was wearing fingernail polish, a dress, and everything. o.0

I did not get caught though. (I got in the shower with fingernail polish remover and said I was bathing) xD

[Guest Katrina_Carter]

Easiest lie ever to cover it up if you really need to. "I was babysitting my nieces/friends daughter/neighbor girl, who is 5/6/7 years old and she painted my nails. It's not a big deal." At worst you get some gay jokes shot your way.

I don't work in an office setting, my co-workers know I am bi, and a few know I am beginning to transition. I've heard the bigoted, homophobic, and other general jokes and I ignore them so nail polish wouldn't be an issue for me.

[Guest darlene lynn]

Hi Girls

I like my tights jeans so thats my bad, I tend to show a little panty line. ooopss. But let'm look I've been crossdressing so long it doesn't bother me anymore. My spouse has even gotten use to it. But she does keep me grounded. and lets me know when I'm going to far out on a limb.

Love

Darlene Lynnette

[Guest NatalieRene]

Hi Girls

I like my tights jeans so thats my bad, I tend to show a little panty line. ooopss. But let'm look I've been crossdressing so long it doesn't bother me anymore. My spouse has even gotten use to it. But she does keep me grounded. and lets me know when I'm going to far out on a limb.

Love

Darlene Lynnette

The solution to pantie lines is a cute g string. That way you can still enjoy your tight pants if thats what you like.

[Guest Katrina Reann]

I did something similar once. I was off school for holiday and my brother was at my dads house, so I was all alone at my moms house. So I decided I would dress up. I did not get drunk; instead I was actually very tired but for some reason or another did not realize it, so I fell asleep. My mom gets home about 6:00, and when I woke up it was like 5:40. I was like "Zomg!", because I was wearing fingernail polish, a dress, and everything. o.0

I did not get caught though. (I got in the shower with fingernail polish remover and said I was bathing) xD

That was quick thinking...lol

Another time I got caught was a few years ago. I was rooming with a cousin of mine. When we were younger we both loved to wear his sisters bras and underwear when everyone was gone. But as we got older I guess he kind of grew out of it unlike me. And we never really talked about as we got older. Well one day he was gone and I decided to wash and dry my girlie clothes. I got them all washed, dried, and put away. But the next day he did his laundry and I had missed a pair of panties in the dryer. He didn't say anything until the day after that. He laid the panties on the table and asked if they were mine. I denied it and said they must have been left by one of the gals you brought home. He said nope. And I nervously said well I don't know. Her knew they were mine and I really think he suspected it all along. And I think he knows it goes much further than panties and bras now. But nothing more has ever been said.

I haver also been pulled over by a cop while in full dress but for the most part everything wenth smooth other than when he wa done writing the ticket he said have a nice night SIR! lol

Now I am out to all family and friends in my area and my wife is very supportive. My only hang up is I live in a town of 700 people and in an apartment where several younger people live and I am a little nervous about going out full time. It is just here that I am nervous about it because when I do go out once in a blue moon to go into town I am fine once we get away from the apartment. And I do pass a lot of the times as I dress conservatively because I am a plus, tall sized gal.

Other than these screw ups I tend to remember to get everything off before I go out in male mode. But I wonder when my luck will run out...lol

[Guest micralla]

The only advantage I have hear is being Goth and only were eyeliner most of the time with black finger nail polish is that I am a profesional sound and light engineer so when it happens and traces are still left I just tell them that I had a show last night and excuse myself and take care of it.