a fun chat with a policewoman

[Absaroka]

As I have posted elsewhere I have been going through some stuff internally and thinking a lot about what is important to me. For some reason at this particular time it seems to have lead to a great decrease in my desire to cross dress and I find that at the moment I just don't want to.

But Halloween comes once a year and I figured I'd regret it later if I didn't so I put on my Halloween costume A witch costume but except for the hat it's mostly clothes from Goodwill) and went for a nice daylight walk in the woods. Chatted pleasantly with several people and had fun, it was a gorgeous day.

When I got back just as I was walking to my car a policewoman drove up. She was very pleasant and matter of fact as she told me that I had greatly upset some people and asked for ID, all after quietly parking in such a way that my car was blocked in by her. Then another policeman showed up.

After the usual questions about any past arrests we spent a few minutes discussing cars and then the computer said I had no record or outstanding warrants or anything and they let me leave.

This sort of thing happened fairly often when I was younger-I seem to fit some sort of a description. Then when we had children it stopped as middle aged white men with children do not fit a description. I guess however that men in a dress and a beard in broad daylight do........

I wondered what had alarmed people so much and decided that since there was at one time a coven that was publicly active in that area and used to hold services in that very woods that either people were on edge or else I met up with a Wiccan and annoyed them with my costume and so they called the cops. However when telling my wife and kids about it my wife pointed out that the other end of the path I was walking on ends up in the parking lot of the local elementary school and that was probably what upset people. Whatever......

Probably a good reality check in terms of telling folks outside a very small circle of people about this. But I never had a desire to do that anyway.

I'll let you guys know where I am at with the whole just not wanting to do this right now thing. To me it's not surprising since although I have had these feelings since I was 8 there have been long periods where it just didn't seem very important. On the other hand the feelings always resurface at some point and I would think they will again. In the meantime I am still enjoying these forums even if I post less also. And I think it's really pretty intriguing that seeing a movie about a totally different subject could affect my feelings about crossdressing in such a way, but I good art speaks to fairly universal themes, albeit themes in disguise.

Absaroka