Patty Mitchell’s blog is great. Upon reading this list of Do’s and Don’ts, I cringed just a little bit. It’s been a while since I was truly immersed in the symphonic world, and the memories of misbehavior (my own as well as that of others) came flooding back.
Your cartoon is inaccurate. According to the advertisements, you should not only not be wearing a mask, but actually ready to pounce on the next male walking into the room.
Oh, if guys only knew! 🙂
@emilycello Ok – this is a TMI comment on my part but I left my manhood pride on the shelf a long time ago. I stopped wearing men’s deodorant sometime around 1993 – while I was in the Marine Corps. Yep, I found that men’s deodorant smelled too much in a field environment, attracted more bugs, and quite frankly did not work that well compared to some lady deodorants. I have also worn panty hose in a field environment to combat against ticks. It sounded crazy at first – but it worked for me while other Marines were busy burning ticks off their… [rhyming game] well – you get it.