Dude Looked Like a Lady...,


I just read Cranky's post about his experiences in life with living and learning about homosexuals. Great post too, Cranky. It reminded me of something that happened to me when I was just a young pup and had just finished training school in the army and was sent to my first permanent post. I was stationed at at the 54th Military Police Unit in Ft. Ord, Ca. I basically just flew around the country picking up guys who had deserted from the army and were locked up in jail somewhere. That is a post for another day.
 
This story is one that really opened my eyes to a world I knew nothing, absolutely nothing, about. A friend of mine wanted me to ride with him to San Francisco. Ft Ord, which is now closed, is in Monterey, CA., really just a skip and a hop from San Francisco. He was from Frisco and wanted someone to ride with him home. OK, if you must know, it was really a pot run. He had a connection there and I rode with him. Young and dumb, I know.
 
We left early so he could show me around a place I had always dreamed of visiting. I had been reading about the Hippie's and Haight Ashbury since I was a teenager. I always wanted to go, and we did. I was in wonder walking around with all these freaks that I had seen on TV. The smell of pot, the Jasmine smell coming out of shops, the beautiful girls in sun dresses. I was really impressed and could have lived there if I wasn't in the army. Damn.
 
We left there and went to to Fisherman's Wharf, we ate in Chinatown and then drove across the Golden Gate Bridge, that I had seen in pictures all my life. We even had time to take took the tour of Alcatraz Island. I was in the actual cell that the Birdman of Alcatraz was in. I loved the movie with Burt Lancaster. What a day. San Francisco has to be one of the greatest cities in the world.
 
As it got later, and darker, the guy had to meet his connection. He didn't tell me before hand that I couldn't meet the guy. He had to drop me off a block or so away, and said he would be back in a few minutes. I got out and leaned against a building and started looking around and all of a sudden I saw all these beautiful girls walking up and down the block. How lucky could a guy be?
 
Most were in these tight mini shirts and wearing black fish-net stockings. It seemed they all were built, as in big breasted, and had beautiful hair. It was about then that I saw the first Adam's Apple on a woman I had ever seen. You have to remember, I was still a young whippersnapper, wet-behind the ears. It was then that I also noticed, some of these chicks could use a shave. I almost freaked the hell out!
 
That SOB had left me off in a block where Transvestites walked at night, without telling me. I had never seen a transvestite in my life. I don't think I had ever seen a picture of one. You don't see men dressed as women walking around the south. To say I was a little scared would be an understatement. Some of these guys could have been linebackers for a football team, and they were staring at me!
 
Everyone had long hair back then, men and women. I was standing there with a buzz-cut the army so generously paid for. I know I must of looked like a cop to these women..,ah... men... or at the time, I had no idea. My buddy then pulled up and I ran and jumped into his car. He was laughing his ass-off and I was mad as hell. After cussing at him awhile, I started laughing too, and that my friends is my first, but not my last, experience with a Transvestite. Take that Cranky! 

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Comment by Violet on December 3, 2011 at 6:51pm

My pleasure I assure you lol
Seen my fair share of the wild side in my younger years...

Nuff said about that!

Comment by Kenneth Sibbett on December 3, 2011 at 6:10pm

Thank you, again, Violet~~

Comment by Violet on December 3, 2011 at 12:41pm

Freakin' hilarious, you poor sod lmao!

Comment by Kenneth Sibbett on July 6, 2011 at 9:44am
Hah! "Nuff said!!
Comment by Lisa Schnaidt on July 6, 2011 at 9:27am
I was at the early west coast premieres of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Polk Street in San Francisco. 'Nuff said?
Comment by Kimberly on July 2, 2011 at 12:55am
This made me laugh.  Great blog!  :-)
Comment by Cranky Cuss on July 2, 2011 at 12:37am

"But not your last experience."  You mean there's more.  Uh oh.

 

You got me there.  I don't think I've ever encountered a transvestite up close and personal.  If I did, I was sure fooled!

Comment by Peggy Powell on July 1, 2011 at 8:19pm
Way too funny!  My first introduction was in Toronto with my husband.  I had never been to Yonge St. and we took a walk one evening.  He had to point them out, I was so naive I couldn't even tell!
Comment by Kenneth Sibbett on July 1, 2011 at 6:05pm
Thanks guys. I wasn't but 18 at the time. When I went to Germany two years later and went to Frankfort's famous Red Light District, San Francisco was tame in comparison. That was like the wide, wide west with no rules. Yeah Steve, I love LOLA and the Kinks are one of my favorite all time bands. They have really lead the way in Rock & Roll for a long, ,long time.
Comment by CreekEnd_UK on July 1, 2011 at 5:15pm

Ever heard   LOLA by a UK band from the  1960's called the KINKS ?

They're still going too.

Available to download on a P2P near you.

I'll just mince orf now............

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