Things that Backfire

[azurelunatic]

Last night, when digitalambience and I were lying around comfortably, he looked a little chilly, so I tossed something on top of him, something that turned out to be my rainbow-stripey nightgown. He commented that now he knew why I liked to wear that with nothing else on, because it feels nice on the skin.

Somehow, he wound up putting it on.

Somehow, he wound up with the bright idea of wandering out into the living room, wearing my rainbow-striped nightgown, and freaking out votania, marxdarx, and evealone. He reconsidered, and put something on beneath it, so that if they said that it didn't look like him, he could quickly strip out of it, and freak them out if they thought that he would not be wearing anything underneath.

Somehow, his plan backfired.

When he wandered out into the living room in his rainbow-striped glory, votania commented that this had been her grandma's nightgown. digitalambience screeched and raced back into my room, stripping off the nightgown as he ran.

It gets better.

As I lay next to him, doubled over with laughter, it became apparent that he had misheard votania, and thought that the nightgown had belonged to her grandfather. Evidently, learning that it had in fact belonged to her grandmother made it just that much worse. Wearing the nightgown of an odd, cross-dressing old man is less squickful than wearing the nightgown that used to belong to an old lady.

There was much laughter.

Cross-dressing seems to happen around me. I'm not entirely sure why.