Problems only goths have

well, go on.... (it's a long survey lol)

Please select all that apply.

• Blacks that don't match due to fading
• (for guys) Trying to convince the drunk frat boy who is hitting on you that really are a guy
• Big hair, small cars
• Trying to find food you can eat without messing up your lipstick
• Airport metal detectors
• Nicknames like "that devil worshipping freak" or "the chick with the purple hair" or "the girl with the yarn hair"(for those who wear yarn falls) or other such names
• Getting your jewelry tangled in your clothes/hair (or worse, someone elses)
• Getting your shoes/boots caught in the holes in the hem of your skirt
• Trying not to gouge yourself or anyone else with your spiked bracelets
• Sneezing while wearing a spiked collar
• Wearing a black turtleneck when it's 90 degrees outside
• Getting people to look you in the eyes when you talk to them
• People declaring that your eyes are yellow, when, in fact, they are green/that your eyes glow when they are blue (or something like that)
• Having to reach for the salt with one hand while holding back your sleeve with the other so it doesn't drag in the gravy
• Trying to do dishes with flowy sleeves
• Trying to find your possessions in an all black room
• Having to find your clothing by feel, since it's all mostly one color
• Trying to get the hair-dye stains out of your towels, sink, floors, doors, ceilings, carpets, pets, furniture
• Being asked to defend your entire existence in 30 seconds or less
• Attempting to explain your subculture to anyone
• Finding a detergent to get those blacks blacker (author's note: actually, this one's become easier over time)
• (for ladies) Having little kids tug on their parent's arm and say, "Look, Mommy, isn't she pretty? I want to look like her!" while the parents grab the child and run for it.
• Having someone try to pick you up, just so they can tell their friends they've had sex with a goth/punk/etc...
• Going out in the winter and having all the metal stuff you are wearing freeze against your exposed skin
• Getting your skirt/chains caught on: anything and everything
• Lending your eyeliner to a friend and finding out later that he's returned it without mentioning that he completely emptied the entire brand new tube
• Using your eyeliner to fix your lipstick before fixing your actual eyeliner, and ending up with a big black smudge where a nice crisp line should be. (hey, eyeliner makes the best lipstick.)
• Trying to buy mundane clothes to go job hunting in and not being able to bring yourself to buy anything with enough color
• The sidewalk salt stains on the hems of skirts/pants in winter
• Not being able to climb really small stairs because the pointy toes on your pixie boots stick out past your toes enough that you can't get your actual toes on the steps
• Trying to stand up, and getting the hooks on your left boot caught in the fishnets on your right leg. And managing to look graceful while extricating yourself.
• Dancing in a corset
• (ladies) 'falling out' of a corset.
• Driving in a rather large cloak
• Having to wash black lipstick off of your neck/shirt collar
• Having to rush out of bed the moment you wake up just so you can get to the bank before it closes
• (for dudes) Convincing someone that you are straight even though you are wearing a man-skirt and makeup (not a kilt, a man skirt)
• Wearing that HUGE cross you just bought to the club spinning around and knocking yourself out
• 'Crying eyeliner' due to laughing too hard
• Finding that your freshly washed black t-shirt is covered in bits of lint, which while undetectable by the naked eye, show up very well under UV, thereby making you appear to have terminal dandruff
• being asked 'who the hell are they?' when wearing a t-shirt for one of you fave bands
• Waking up at with the most painful hangover ever, and walking to the little store to get aspirin, thinking 'Damn even my feet hurt like hell', then realizing that you're wearing someone else's boots
• Trying to get seated so that the eye that you did just right will be the one facing outward
• Wanting to go and play out in the rain but fearing it'll ruin your hair
• Being unable to decide which rings look best over the black lace gloves
• (for those of us who are naturally pale) Getting a sunburn right through your t-shirt
• Trying to ride a bicycle with a long black skirt
• Trying to ride a bicycle without reminding people of the Wizard of Oz
• Trying to type with your lace gloves on
• Religion: while everybody still thinks you are a Devil-worshipper despite all your explanations.. especially if you tell them you are Pagan..
• Accidentally kicking things and having parts fly off because you're wearing steel toes boots
• Brushing against walls and having chips of drywall fly off because of your spiked bracelet
• When it's cold, your nose will be red no matter how much make-up you have on
• (for those of us who own kitties) Trying to explain to people that the scars up and down your arms are actually from your cat
• The extensive hair loss caused from bleaching and re-bleaching hair
• Trying to tell someone that you admire their footwear without making it sound like a pick up line.
• Wearing stockings without a garter/suspender belt, and having them slide down all the time
• Accidently tucking your skirt into your tights, and walking around with your black-clad butt exposed
• Trying to find something suitable to wear to a wedding
• Forgetting to wash off makeup before going to bed, and waking up with foundation, eye shadow and lipstick covering your pillow
• Forgetting the eyedrops for colored contacts
• buying a floor length coat, only to find out that it's hand-wash only
• Trying to look grateful when a well meaning relative gives a gift and says "I saw it and knew you'd love it- it's black"
• Thinking to yourself that the 'fairy' and even some of the 'gothic' halloween costumes would actually make decent everyday outfits
• Finding an apartment with a wall color that goes with your furniture and decor (unless you actually own your own place, or are able to paint the walls of your apartment.)
• not being able to find black jeans in mainstream shops these days (author note: my solution, thrift stores.)
• I don't have any of these problems
• -other-

fun huh?

• indeed. it's funny cause it's true
• sorta
• I dunno
• I didn't really get how any of it was funny
• no, (then get off my quiz, humorless freak)