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* College towns, where nobody will bat an eye at a bunch of [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Ninja Turtles]] walking through the street alongside a half a dozen or so [[300|shirtless Spartans]], or a man with a [[Everything's Better with Chickens|chicken costume]] showing up to class, and the local Wal-mart fabric clerk can tell just by your height exactly how much fabric you need for a [[Animal House|toga]].
** Art schools, as well, are their own strange microcosm.
** This troper was captain of his college's fencing team, and for four years, rarely walked around campus without a sword or four on my back. The only response I ever got was from people asking for the class times and professors asking to borrow one [[Mundane Utility|because their laser pointers were out of batteries.]]
* Similarly, during various sci-fi, Renaissance Festivals or role-playing conventions shop clerks can be remarkably blase about people armed to the teeth with swords and realistic-looking airsoft guns walking in all day. Of course after the first time it stops being surprising.
** A friend and I once stopped by Target on the way home from a working at Renaissance Fair in [[San Francisco]]. It was cold
** Subverted in the case of Berkeley's naked guy: The city quickly passed an anti-nudity ordinance.
* In the United States, if you open carry a gun, especially a rifle by yourself? Weird looks and chats with the police. Do the same with four people in hunting country? Nobody cares.
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