Do you get asked this question like I do?

[washer111]

Well...

If it ain't the most common question around. "Are you Gay?" crops up quite a lot these days, as does "Are you RETARDED?"

 

On the retarded note, I might ask a pretty valid question, only to be shot with that question, then that SAME person will shoot a similar question. I don't say anything - why? Teachers tend to pick on good kids when they act up. Hence a teacher "dumping" all of my classes trouble onto me. Bastard... 

 

The gay question, well, only one person I know asks that. A boy with some urge related to humping everyone/thing, playing with certain parts of the body (and removing "mess" around those areas...) and taking pictures of himself and other boys in the n... nn..... n-nudd in the boys room... 

 

But the gay question hasn't been popped at me during appliance discussions. People my age just question it like Facebook going out for a day (lol). "Why do you like fridges?" "Why do you like Washing Machines?" (<-- THEY'RE CALLED DISHWASHERS!) "Whatever - Same thing!"

 

[laundromat]

The question I get asked regularly is if I have sex with or on my washers. I would never even think of mixing my sexuality with any figure other then a male human being.

 

[countryford]

After I came out to my parents when i was 18, my mom told my grandmother(who still to this day can not except me) that she said, "I figured, he likes antiques." I still haven't figured out what the relation to me liking antiques and me being gay is. Oh well.

 

[strongenough78]

Oh and if a straight man asks you this question, as many have asked me....."Have you ever been with a woman?" To which I reply No, then they ask, "Then how do you know you won't like it?" I then reply with...."Have you ever been with a man? No? Then how do you know you won't like it?" That usually shuts them up and makes them think lol. Or once in a while they'll say "Because I'm not into guys and wouldn't want to try" I then say "Exactly" then add a wink at the end. They usually get it then.

 

[fester]

When you live byond the range of boring normal,

the average shmoe cannot relate to you. The average being that guy or gal that lives in Walmart and eats, drinks, drives dresses, watches and listens according to what the rest of the herd is doing at the moment. When you do something that places you outside their comfort zone, the reaction is that you're somehow stupid, crazy or gay, which covers both. Perhaps part of the gay question comes from the foolish belief that magical good taste and fashion sense comes with gayness like a secret handshake and decoder ring. Beats me.

I get all sorts of static from people for not following fashion or trend and generally being strange in their view. I'm into vintage. Vintage appliances, motorcycles, architecture, automobiles, music, movies, etc. I shave with a 50 year old Gillette TTO. I have cats. I hate sports and sports bars and 99% of what's on the tube. I'm sitting here typing with a mug of stout, and my .45 Sig Sauer, listening to Johnny Mercer on XM. I may be different, even weird, but I'm straight as a grizzly bear's gadoots and I've had idiots ask me the same thing before. Dude are you gay? It always catches me off guard......then I tell them "choose your next words very carefully".

Gets my blood up just thinking about it!

FEster

 

[maytagbear]

I'll be back

right now, I have to get ready for an extention class I'm taking on Wednesday evenings. However, this is an interesting topic!

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[jerrod6]

I am very sure that not everyone that is interested in washers, dryers, dishwashers and vacuums  is gay.   If that was the case then any man that was involved in the design or patent of a washer, dishwasher...ect  would be gay.  All anyone has to do is look at many of the posts on this site and see that members are discussing the restoration of vintage machines or issues with current stock.  This is hard work and it is in most cases mechanical.  And what of women who are involved in this technology field?   For the older machines it is about how previous technology was used.  For the new machines it is about how new technologies are developed and  used.

 

This question has more to do the the limited experience and  scope of the person asking,  than anything else.

 

 

[wayupnorth]

Once in a while

I always answer with the same response that stops them dead in their tracks. "Why, are you interested...well I am NOT".Shuts them up every time. Its nobodys business who is gay or straight or whatever. What happens behind closed doors are their business, not the whole worlds

 

[wayupnorth]

And yes,

Who should care about preferences as long as they are a good person. Which I have found all you people here are.