I have no Gaydar

No Gaydar, not even an ounce! One of my best friends is gay and has been making fun of me for a couple years about the lack of Gaydar.  I call it being hopeful that the cute guy over there wants to pick me up not my best friend. According to the New York Times Gaydar is real and scientifically exists, read the article.

Here is what happened:

It was time for some quality hang out time with my good friend mentioned above and he had invited me to the Inglewood Lawn Bowling Club for an evening of lawn bowling and dinner. It was my first time and when we arrived we were certainly the youngest. There was one other female there, a lovely older lady who was there to socialize and have dinner then very swiftly disappeared. When I go to his place for parties I am generally both the token female and token straight gal. I am used to it. As we were eating dinner I started to notice that there were only men arriving. I am not going to say that some were obviously gay because I did not know. We continued eating when the one person I did not know at the table left I finally asked the question:

Shellie Moment: Is it gay night tonight? Well my best friend just started laughing at how oblivious I was! Innocent me unaware of gay night at Inglewood Lawn Bowling Club. I thought it was just men's night. So yet again I was the token female and the token straight person.

It was a fun night though. I was not responsible for a single point but I had some really good throws for it being my first time and all.

Fail at Canadian Geography

On the side from my full-time job in tourism I am guiding for a brand new walking tour company in Calgary appropriately named Calgary Walks. I have been doing really well getting to know all the Calgary facts and "did you knows", have not been using my cheat notes since the second tour. Well I was on my fourth tour with two lovely American couples and all was going well...

Shellie Moment: In front of the Harry Hays building are two rock installations, one specifically with an outdated map of Canada from 1984. The item missing you ask? The third territory Nunavut. I knew that and always use that as a skill testing question of my guests. Right after though they tested me right back, one couple was heading to PEI afterwards and wanted to know where it was. We were just moving away and I was not paying full attention to the map so I quickly pointed out what I thought was PEI. Off the coast of Newfoundland was my reaction and pointed to the first island I saw. I was swiftly and embarrassingly, corrected by the second couple in attendance. I hung my head in shame, distracted them and quickly walked away! They will forget my foolish mistake by the end, I will fill their heads with Calgary knowledge!

 

Needless to say for the rest of my life I will forever know where PEI is. Even though as a proper Canadian I should have already known since elementary school.