What is your informal identity?

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

When you are not well known to people, how do you think (or know) that they they stereotype to and refer to you with others?

Maybe in the place you stop to buy a newspaper, you are "that 7:40 woman who always has exact change." Or on your bus into work, maybe you are "the man with the old brief case." Maybe in your neighborhood you are the "car waxing guy," "the open garage woman," "the family from Alaska." or "the loud music person."

I might be "the woman who is always working in her yard." For a while I'm pretty sure I was "the lady who gives water." That started one ghastly hot day when a man and his three little boys came lugging groceries by my house when I was, yes, working in my yard. They all looked like they were about to keel over, so I offered them water, which they accepted. Ever after that the boys and, then, the friends of the boys would stop and ask me for a glass of water. Isn't that kind of old timey? The original boys moved and the rings at the doorbell faded away.

So who are you?

[Broken Arrow]

At work, I guess I'm the "will occasionally break out into laughter over text on the computer" guy. My (cool) boss will sometimes say, "I don't get it. There's no comic strips or videos of dumb skits... just text. And you laugh over that?"

Yes, yes I do. Not laughing at anyone or anything like that, but over stuff that I think is funny anyway.

[sagegirl]

Kids and Dogs

At home, we are probably "the people with the kids and dogs". At work, I am probably the girl who wears the Tshirts (I am probably the only hospital employee that doesn't wear a scrub top, but a tshirt with scrub bottoms).

It kinda depends on the place. At the store I am the "girl with the list and all the coupons"

[Ima saver]

Someone at the building supply place called me the "millionaire lady"

[Ima saver]

When I was in my early forties, I use to pick up my daugher at the high school. Later, I found out I was called "Barbie" cause I drove a corvette and have long blond hair!

[vsjhoc]

I went to grad school overseas. I was referred to as 'the American girl.'

[pearlieq]

Hmm...

To the casual stranger I'm probably "that big lady".

To the neighbors we're probably "the phantom couple" since we're rarely out.

At work I'm "the consultant" or "the queen of cereal" depending on who you talk to.

[Caoineag]

At work, I am the "introverted girl who rides the bus and still beats everyone in to work", "girl with all the answers who will actually help you", and "girl who is obsessed with food". (Im 26, so everyone still thinks of me as a girl)

On the bus I am the "sometimes social, sometimes not girl who plays her Nintendo DS or MP3 player on the bus"

At restaurants, my husband and I are the "couple who tip well"

[Cylenchar]

At work I am 'the weird guy who rides the bus bikes 20 miles too and from work, even in the snow.'

At restaurants, I am the other half of the 'Couple who tip well'

[Caoineag]

Ha! You stopped lurking, I saw that user name and knew it was you :P

[Cylenchar]

Hehe, yup. Killin' time.

[Brokemofo]

At home, I'm definitely either the car waxin' guy or the home theater guy.

[tabbycat31]

at work I'm the "quiet transplanted New Yorker"

I really dont know too many people down here yet.

[skydivingchic]

At work I'm just "the girl". I work as a resident engineer/inspector on construction sites, so it is extremely rare to see another female on the jobsite. I'm generally the first female inspector the construction workers have ever seen.

[Petunia]

At our local Starbucks, I'm probably "Grande Americano for here light room and blueberry scone, heated, on a plate with a fork". At scouts I'm the organized one (among the leaders) and the one with only one child (among the parents). In many places I'm "Daisy's mom".