Wednesday, October 5, 2011

I didn't know lesbians shaved their legs

Actual Scenario That took place in my kitchen a few years back.

Enter Erinyes, moody, bitchy fifteen year old girl, destined to make my life hell.
Enter Persephone, Erinyes' tortured somewhat alcoholic mother (ME!!!)
Enter Artemis, best friend of Persephone, ten years younger, gay.
(And yes, since she is my best friend I have permission from the BDGALA* to use the term gay instead of the politically correct shit everyone is trying to cram down our throats)

*Beer Drinking Gay And Lesbian Association

Set Scene: Pumpkin Carving party, involving beer and Apple Pie (Homemade hooch moonshine that tastes JUST like apple pie...yum) Kids having finished carving pumpkins, admiring them glowing on front porch outside.

Background: I met Artemis when I tended bar. She was one of my customers. We had good times when I worked, and when we needed a fourth for cards one night I invited her to join us. We have been friends ever since. Artemis is openly gay, not in the closet, not a secret. But it's like my sexuality. It's not something we discuss often, even though she has done some stupid people things and then confesses this to me.

So Arty and I are standing in my kitchen, bullshitting about nothing in particular, and she says, "yeah, I really need to shave my legs too."

More background: I hate to shave. I only shave when Hades acts like he has hurt himself by touching the stubble on my legs, or says some off-hand remark about bad seventies porn and looks at my crotch while saying  it. Or I will shave if it's summer and I am wearing shorts, or if I'm lookin for some hot Hades sex. Any other time? I am Sasquatch under my cute jeans.

Anyway we are discussing leg shaving, and what a pain in the ass it is, when Erinyes pipes in;

"I didn't know lesbians shaved their legs."

Oh. My. Gods and Goddesses. She did not just say that?
Yes, yes she did.

Artie almost falls to the ground laughing. I had to laugh too, did my child really believe that lesbians didn't shave? Did she think they all acted like hairy ass men or tree hugging hippies?

Apparently she did.

After Artie explains to my child that she does shave her legs and yes, even though she shaves she is gay, Erinyes takes this as  a "She answered my question, I am going to ask another." And proceeds to corner my friend and interrogate her about what she apparently is very curious about. I stay out of the conversation, watching Artie, and only but in when my daughter's question is waay out of line. (I think it had to do with muff diving)

So Erinyes learned about lesbians and both Artie and I still laugh about her lesbian interrogation.

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