SV: Giving people choices (was Re: SC - period food turns people away?)
Brokk
H940114 at stud.kol.su.se
Wed May 6 11:28:30 PDT 1998
Sounds like good tactics. It reminds me of the way I was introduced,
well, the clothes part anyway, minus the jeans & sneakers.
Foodwise my problem is that I eat almost anything and I'm hungry most of
the time, so there wasn't enough food =(
Brokk.
> Though gingerly avoiding this topic, I was struck by an interesting
> coincidence:
>
> Take margali's statement below. Remove the references to food and
> substitute references to garb.
>
>
> > I will still say it is better to make a person comfortable for a day
> trip > by
> > serving them beans and wienies, if that is what they will eat-as
> long > as
> > they are comfortable enough to enjoy themselves and decide to > come
> back
> > again.
>
>
> I wouldn't attempt to put someone in full Tudor for their first event,
> either. I'd loan them one of my ubiquitous cotton T-tunics and let
> them wear their own jeans, sneakers and belt. At the same time, I'd
> take them around and point out what lovely garb others were wearing
> --not to make them feel uncomfortable or embarrassed, but simply to
> fire up their imaginations.
>
> I might not go as far as beanieweenies, but I would probably smuggle
> in a mundane deli sandwich and chips for my new friend, and allow
> him or her to graze at leisure from my period/perioid buffet luncheon
> as well. If s/he gets grossed out by the stuffed dates, cold game
> birds and so forth, her/his loss. But I wouldn't let her/him starve,
> either...
>
> Just my US$.02; now I'll don my asbestos kirtle and wait... <G>
>
> Always,
>
> - kat
>
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