• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I once made an actual Robo Elvis costume for a Halloween contest at work. I got kneepads and other safety equipment from the company surplus store and attached them to an Elvis jumpsuit from a thrift shop. The surplus store also had a weird helmet with a dropdown visor that covered most of my face. I screwed and hotglued various junk circuit boards onto the helmet, one of which I powered up and used pulses from it to blink LEDs at various places on the arms and legs. On the back I wrote ROBO ELVIS in glitter glue. It won $75 at the costume contest and I got a few years of mileage out of it.

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      God, this story and your comment reminded me. When I was… 13 or so probably, I was at some event for my brother and his group. People were speaking and I was half paying attention. I heard them say … <<lastname>> please come up. I thought they said my name, I started getting up, my mom tried to stop me but I was indignant. I got up there and was mortified as everyone stares at me, wondering why I’m up there. To this day I think of that, and I don’t get up in front of anyone unless I’m damn sure it’s supposed to be me.

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          2 days ago

          It was right out of an awkward teenage drama. Only thing that could have made it worse would have been if I peed myself. I sheepishly just walked back to my seat

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        I once did the same in a roll-call. Someone else had my exact name with an extra letter, and neither of us heard the small phonetic difference. This was at a new-job orientation, so forever after we were branded. >.<

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    It’s totally believable that a kid would think he was supposed to dress up as Elvis, because there probably wasn’t any discussion about elves or why the kids were supposed to dress up like elves. It wasn’t Elf Day or Lord of the Rings Day or anything - there was probably just a single intercom announcement, “Kids, tomorrow dress up like elves,” and he misheard it, as in a particularly implausible sitcom episode.

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    3 days ago

    Top Mom move if the kid had a spare elf costume. I hope he did have one, and just had to change :)