A recent post by Cyanide Bunny here and the thread that followed reminded me of a Foreign Mime I was involved in a few years ago, I was in Egypt and in a street of leather garment makers. On a whim I decided this would be a good place to buy a pair of leather motorcycle chaps (just like horse riding chaps and worn to protect your legs). I started to try to describe and mime what I wanted but with no success, I went back to my hotel and chose my least loved pair of jeans and with the nail scissors cut them down to a set of chaps, just two legs joined by a waistband, no body and the legs split up the sides so as to be closed with snaps. Taking this pattern back to the vendor I showed him what I wanted, in black leather. After turning the pattern over in his hands for a few minutes he looked up to me with a big smile on his face and said “Ah! Is for your wife, Yes?” “Well no” I said “is for me” “No, no” he replied “You not ladyboy, is for your wife, yes?” Finally I agreed “Is for my wife” “Good, good, tomorrow” he said, when I returned, no chaps were to be seen and I was told with some difficulty that they had been seen hanging in the store and been bought by another American, “for his wife, yes” next day I had my own pair and noticed that another pair were hanging there also, waiting for the next American deviant to purchase. They may be there still, it was only twenty years ago.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Hello Bearsy: It seems I’ve managed a Pingback here, unintentionally I might add. I wrote this post on my blog and linked it to CB’s Room Service post here. It now appears in the Recent Comments listing as a Pingback, clever or what? No idea how to fix it or what use it may be to anyone. I guess I could delete the original post from my site and see what happens.
Hmm. A friend of mine has a thing about horsey girls wearing chaps. Pervert. Him, not you, LW, obviously. 🙂
There is definitely something about leather, LW, but surely it is quite practical, she says hopefully; well isn’t it?
Maybe they thought you had some kind of Pulp Fiction scenario in mind…? Just a thought…
Low Wattage – Pingbacks.
Oh my goodness, my users do love giving me problems! 😦
DNMT is not set up to use Pingbacks – they are not really appropriate for this type of site, so I have set the default on posts to not use them. Unfortunately, CB had put a tick in the box on his post, by mistake no doubt, hence the software reaction to your link on your personal blog. Grr!
Please CB (and others) don’t enable Pingbacks on your posts, Thanks! 🙄
Janh: Most of the one’s who have a thing about horsey girls wearing chaps are usually other horsey girls wearing chaps aren’t they?
Ara: Yes, admirably practical, waterproof, windproof and gets softer and more comfortable the more it is worn.
Claire: Hard to know what the vendor was thinking beyond the obvious, maybe he made a pair for himself (or even his wife) to experiment with.
Bearsy: Ta very much, if you had gotten (sic) up an hour earlier you could have saved me the fifteen minutes I spent trying to get rid of it. 😉
Standard clothing in Ft Worth!
CO: Yup, Dress of the day in Texas, complete with conspicuous handgun in a belt holster, the latter also seen in Seattle yesterday protesting the Starbucks plan to ban customers carrying guns.