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I’ve had a fair few career changes over the years, from purveyor of secondhand books to grocery shop assistant to sandwich bar operator to restauranteur to Law Agent to holiday apartment host and finally to vacation apartment booking agent, after which, exhausted, I retired into obscurity.
Should circumstances conspire to force me back into slavery it could only be as a clown. Yes, you’ve got it, I’d join a circus! I mean people have been telling me all my life that I’m a clown and my friends think I clown around in my garden breaking my back and growing stuff they can get in Lidl for a euro.
Add to that, in my punk days I wore white clown makeup. It’s the only makeup I’ve ever worn. I’ve never owned lipstick, eyeshadow, mascara or rouge. I painted my face white and bleached my hair the same colour. I’m sure you will agree I looked divine.
I remember meeting a neighbour early one Sunday morning while popping into work without make-up. “Jesus Christ Almighty” she exclaimed when she saw me “I always thought you were Albino”
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I often wore monks robes I made myself as well as a shroud I purchased from an undertaker. My appearance attracted quite a bit of comment and I got innumerable unimaginative poor souls walking behind me singing the theme to The Addams Family imagining they were hilarious or enquiring "how much do you charge to haunt a house," the stock reply to which was “how many rooms?” But I recall one more inspired chappie who quipped “Where did you park your rocket?”
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Yes, indeed, I think I’d make a great clown. Perfect for the clown world we inhabit today. Come to think of it, I could probably get a job in politics. There’s no greater clown show than that!
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Posted in response to @galenkp's Weekend Experiences prompt asking "if you could make a career change what would it be and why? "
The images are my own
I also planned on drawing a clown at some point in the future. It seems that you beat me to it.
Don't let that stop you. If there's one thing this world is lacking it's clowns!
Besides, I'm certain yours will be a far superior clown, for you are an artist and I a mere chancer:)
I would add dogs and sweets.
you are an artist as well.
I love that albino look!
Thanks! It took years of skulking in dark corners to achieve!:)
hahaha well that must have been fun tough 😂
we live in a clown world, being a clown is almost any political job
It was a lot of fun. Many times I was stopped in the street by people asking to take photographs. I always declined, of course.
As to politicians, to quote Kafka, “One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”
Ah Kafka was so right, if he only could see today world
I fucken hate clowns, they freak me out.
Anyway, I think your look was pretty good, sort of like a pixie or some sort of fairy person (with wings neatly folded beneath your monkish robe). And that last image above...sort of reminds me also of a wise (albino) druid.
I don't know, just thinking out loud here but...I probably would have asked you out on a date to be honest; probably to go haunt a house with me, scare the fucken bejesus out of someone...then see where the night led.
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Ah shucks, thanks! Actually, one of my boyfriends used to call me pixie person. I rebuffed the advances of many a suitor but your invitation I would certainly have accepted. I loved tough men and a man with a gun, well...
People tend to not look well enough, to allow one single aspect of someone they see cloud their judgement, and so miss out on opportunities for relationships that could well have been valuable; it's a very superficial world we live in. I like to believe I have a greater ability to see a little more clearly when I look and I reckon I've done better for it. So, in you I see a pixie (from these photos at least) and that isn't a bad thing; I'm not the only one it seems so there's at least two enlightened chaps out there at least.
Thanks, for what I'll take as compliments.
It is interesting what you say and the way you have presented yourself to the world, very you and that is very good.
Hugs
I always believe in being myself, for in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.:)