Truk Hers....Don't be Fooled by the Guts that We Got

Tuesday I received a call from a youth leader and was asked to be a 'Waldo' with Suzanne. The young men and young women's group were having an activity at the Arrowhead Mall called 'Where's Waldo?' Different people from the ward are asked to go in disguise to see if the youth can seek them out and find them. I was bummed we only had a day to prepare because if anyone knows me, I like to go all out. Many ideas came to mind: red hat club ladies, pregnant ladies, supermodels, scrubs ladies, gangsters, musicians, mannequins, and ladies of a bigger size. We couldn't find anything concrete, so we thought we'd go to Goodwill and hope to find something. Within about 5 minutes..we spotted the K-RO Trucking hats. BINGO. Next, we found 2 of the exact same mechanics outfits that fit slimmingly. DOUBLE BINGO.
That night, we only had 15 min to get ready. We had towels shoved in our monkey suits to show off our slimming manly figures. We rubbed dirt from my car tires on our faces, hands, and neck to look like mechanics. And to complete the 'look' we made a stop at the Shell Station for our Big Gulps. I have never received so many double takes in my life. It was embarrassing at first, but by the end of the night, we had embraced it. We then headed to the mall and propped ourselves at The Miracle Mile Bakery complete with our Sports pages and Gun advertisements. Regrettably, all the groups found us, but we still fooled several. Nadine Smith was talking to me and finally asked, 'who are you?' Brynna was a foot away from me..I smiled at her, she gave a wry smile back and it wasn't until I started talking that she said...'Mom??' And last but not least, I had to hit on Bishop in my best manly voice since he walked right past us.
It was a great night and we had a ball. It's been awhile since I've laughed that hard just by looking at someone. The one thing still troubling me is which youth thought we had dressed up as 'black' people? Still trying to figure that one out.