/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8027228
>be me
>wearing a super gorgeous old op, all white
>after a meetup, starting to get a bit dark
>notice some guy is following me
>keeps following me for a bit, I walk faster
>he suddenly runs into a restaurant
>ok good he's gone, slow down
>start to relax
>about a block away
>suddenly the guy runs at me from the store
>holding something, he obviously stole it from restaurant
>panic, can't move
>He runs past, squirts the bottle he had stolen at me
>he had fucking stolen ketchup from the restaurant
>and it was all over my dress
>he runs off and I never see him again

>>8027265

>>8027265
Oh wow, that is SO mean.
Why would anyone do that? I mean, if he was with a group, okay, but all by himself?

>>8027265
Why are people so immature? I can't imagine being in this situation. I would just stand there in shock and cry.

>New job
>Decent pay check
>Weeaboo dream come true: get transferred to Japan
>Attempt to balance professionalism with nerdiness
>Meet random coworker
>She couldn't be more blatant unless she went around wearing cat ears
>in her twenties and acts like a middle schooler
>never shuts about homestuck and (direct quote) "herb lesbians"
>I get lumped in with her because I'm young and nerdy
>whygod.jpg

>>8027228
>at the mall with normally-dressed friends
>in casual/otome coord with minimal petti, fitted blazer, ivory baby skirt, subtle headwear, plain footwear
>notice group of kids is sort of following us
>boy runs up to me from behind, hugs me
>would normally be freaked out but d'awww he's fucking adorable
>kid runs away
>like 10 minutes later his crew of 3 other cohorts stop us in the middle of the mall
>little girl (clearly the ringleader) asks me "why are you dressed like that????"
>"uhhh because this is how i dress?"
>girl scoffs, says "i bet i can get more men than you"
>we're like wtf, my 3 other friends (2 male, 1 very butch female) stay silent
>me: "uh ok, i don't like boys so that's fine with me. how old are you? do your parents know where you are?"
>girl: "are you sure you're a real lesbian??? lesbians dress like that [pointing to butch friend] not weird like you. and we're12"
>girl fucking FLASHES US
>we FLIP OUR SHIT WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK
>the girl runs for it and her posse traipses after her
>stand there in shock
>we immediately decide to leave
to this day i'm still super weirded-out by just thinking of it. i guess i'm lucky that this is the worst thing that has happened to me in lolita but? what?

>>8027330
>"Why are people so immature?"
>"...and cry"
Kek

>>8027366
careful there edgemaster, you might get a papercut

>>8027366
Being sad = being immature? Yeah you tell them! Basic human emotions are so immature!

Get a load of this faggot.

>>8027366
>using quotes while using a meme arrow
>didn't even quote them correctly
>using greentext wrong
>being this retarded in 2015
If you're going to shitpost at least do it correctly, twat.

>>8027386

>>8027388

>>8027386
Being sad over a ruined dress is immature, yes

>>8027355
herb... lesbians?

This isn't nearly as bad as what other people have shared, but since I normally wear lolita to formal events with my family I get questions....and they think they're the Loli gods, and answer for me.
>Family Pre-Christmas dinner at a nice restaurant
> A really polite older couple asks why I'm dressed so nicely
> drunk aunt jumps in "Oh that's called Lolita it's a har-a-joo-koooo fashion from Japan, but it's not a sex thing."
> And I'm dying.

>>8027392
if someone ruined your brand you wouldn't care? shit.

>>8027392
ok, ruin all your clothes and tell us how you feel about it then. especially the most expensive/hard to get ones

>>8027397
kek for days

>>8027366
>>8027392
hot shit 2 cool 4 skool dont give a heck

>>8027403
Well I certainly wouldn't cry about it, it's just a dress

>ILD outdoor event.
>Normalfag old ladies ask us (very nicely and complimented us, btw) why we dress that way.
>250lb worst dressed weeabo ita immediately rushed to the front of the group (fastest I've ever seen her run) and answered for the group:
>"All of our clothes are like made in Japan, why are you guys like so uncultured and ignorant?"

>...while wearing Bodyline 4L and horribly stretched bolero from Wetseal.

>>8027397
Well at least she was right!

>>8027416
Yeah thankfully, but the look on that couples face as they tried to get away....She's done this multiple times.

>>8027409
I would, but I cry whenever I get upset. And I would be upset if some dickbag blew ketchup all over my dress. Not because there is ketchup all over my dress, but because that spiteful sonvabitch will never get caught for his actions probably.

>>8027387
(s)he got your jimmies rustled, mission accomplished.
And I do agree that someone crying over random people in the street being weird is rather immature.

>>8027397
Going to harajuku tomorrow for fukubukuro shopping.

>>8027464
>I would, but I cry whenever I get upset
Hence why they said it's immature.

>>8027464
...so you do admit that you cry anytime you're upset? And you do not think that's an immature habit worth fixing?

>>8027464
Don't worry anon, I'll cry too. Someone ruining a good day purely to be mean is awful. I'm a nervous person, and a direct attack would certainly makes me cry.

>>8027394
As opposed to regular or extra crispy

>>8027502
>>8027503
Tried fixing , but no, I still cry when I'm upset. I just get upset at fewer things now. I dunno, I see it as a physical reaction rather than something 'immature'. It's like some people have faces that get red when they get angry. Unless you also consider that immature?

>>8027506
Thanks for the support, anon.

>>8027537
I've cried when I'm upset before. It's usually tears of frustration because there is no way to explain things to asshole idiots.
It's even worse when the asshole idiots think they have somehow won something because you are in tears. No, motherfucker. I'm in tears because there is no way I can legally get away with stabbing/slapping your dumb ass without getting in trouble.

>>8027415
It's always the least qualified who jumped on those questions, isn't it? Generally if my comm has a meetup and someone asks "Why are you all dressed like that?" the quickest answer is "We're just a bunch of friends who happen to like the same sort of clothes, and we hang out together every once in a while."

But one of my first meetups, the cashier at the restaurant we visited asked the group of us, and it was the girl in a cheap goth corset and piano-print Hot Topic skirt that barely covered by her ass who decided to step up and explain the origin, concept, history, and core values of the style.
She wasn't snotty like your ita, but she went on FOREVER and held up the queue and I couldn't help but wonder how a person could know so much, and still dress like such a disaster.

>>8027415
>>8027579
In my comm, it's understood that it is part of the meet host's responsibility to field questions so that's a handy policy to keep the itas and weeebs quiet. For us it's just a holdover from before we branched off from the main comm and left them there, heh.

>>8027415
>>8027579
>>8027582

Trying to explain the fashion to everyone really is an excited newbie thing. My comm is all long time wearers and the standard responses to "why are you all dressed like that?" are:

>we just like to dress up and go places
>it's a club for well-dressed people
>it's a meet for fans of japanese fashion

No ranting and no name-dropping, barely anyone ever follows up on that. 99% of people aren't actually interested in your clothes, they're just confused and want a reason for being this weird.

>>8027565
I'm 23, and in the year 2014 I've cried because of being upset by:
> some shitface stealing my bike and my only way of transportation
> not getting to the school I applied to
And many more.
Crying when you're upset is not immature, it's a way of coping and often a natural reaction to shock and sadness and disappointment. If you cry in every little bump in the road MIGHT be immature, but more likely it's a sign of major stress.
So yeah, crying after someone chased you down with a bottle of ketchup to ruin your possibly +300 $ dress, is completely normal. The douchbag who pulled that prank is the immature one.

>>8027366
>>8027392
>admitting to being this new

>>8027397
Is your drunk aunt my mom, even when she's sober?
>I love your dress anon! Where did you get it
>Oh she made it herself because she's a lolita! You know that come from Japan, like sushi and Narootoo? Anon likes Japanese things! It has NOTHING to do with pedos though so don't think that!
>I wear classic and nobody has ever mistaken my clothes for a fetish/pedo thing
>my weeb phase only lasted a few months when I was 12
>apparently my mom thinks Naruto is mainstream enough for random middle aged ladies to recognize
I love my mother but dang mom, I can't take you anywhere.

>>8027415
>It's a fashion inspired by historical victorian and rococo fashion! It's about modesty and opulence and femininity! We're rebelling against oversexualized Western women's fashion!
>says the weeb whose flesh is straining to escape from her Hot Topic corset, New Rock boots and tulle miniskirt
every goddamn time

>>8027537
>>8027565
My tears also tend to be tears of anger and frustration. Some people go bright red, some people get violent and some people cry. Your emotions need an outlet and crying is a pretty harmless one, so I'm honestly not too ashamed of it. I'm working on delaying it so I can have a good cry in the bathroom rather than in front of someone like my boss, but if some asshole attacked me in the street for no reason I'd also cry like a fucking baby because what the fuck, dude?

>>8028022
>not being a pussy is being "new"
lel ok

>2 years ago
>uncle comes over with youngest cousin who is around 4 at the time
>they plan to stay in my room
> have "Please don't touch my stuff" talk with youngest cousin
> not even twenty minutes later she comes out of my room with a wig I bought the day before on her head
> it's already frizzy and her dirty fingers are in it
> all of my family is laughing and thinks it's cute
> I just stand there and fake laugh too

>>8028145
>not knowing how much brand costs

Yeah you're pretty new.

>>8028121
Ah she is! Although my poor mom, she tries so hard but doesn't get the fashion. I didn't wear anything but sweats as a kid, and now that we go out and people stop to ask about my clothes she feels so embarrassed and defensive. Although my aunt gets mad when she catches people staring and starts screaming at them....At least they're ok with the clothes?

>>8028173
Silly anon, clearly they have enough money laying around not to feel remotely upset about $300 dresses getting ruined for no reason. Only the poorest of poorfags get upset when something they spent several hundreds of dollars on gets destroyed.

>>8028145
>also admitting to being underage b&

Apex kek

>>8028184
Would you say the same thing if I dumped a glass of water on your computer and then smashed it to bits and pieces?

Same idea, just different item that is ruined.

>inb4 poorfag, just actually buys their own shit and knows the value of a dollar

>>8028153
My mother is a professional illustrator and once the kid of some people we had over scribbled all over several of her WIPs with a permanent marker. The kid was too young to realize what he had done wrong but the parents were complete shits about it, ooing and awwing about how kyoot their little babbu was and not understanding why my mom would be upset because "they were just drawings! Just make them again!".
Kids are retarded by nature but adults who actively encourage this make me so mad. Reprimanding a child isn't mean, it's helping them grow as a person. One of my cousins is an entitled, destructive asshole now because his mother only ever coddled him.

>>8028178
Your aunt sounds like some of the more obnoxious girls in my comm...
In my case it's my dad who gets defensive. He loves that I dress how I want and gets upset whenever anyone has anything less than positive to say about it. It's sweet, but also very unnecessary.

>>8028225
Pretty sure that was sarcasm, anon.

>>8028184
>>8028225
Nah, I'm just thinking that anon just didnt understand how a random person would have the insolence to ruin someone's happiness like that. That in itself is pretty heartbreaking, whether it was a $400 dress or a $10 dress.

>>8028188
I never stated my age anywhere in the thread, what are you on about
>>8028225
>>8028184
I'd get angry, I wouldn't cry. Crying about material things that break or get ruined is immature and whiny, especially when it has no emotional value aside from "but it was expensive! and pretty!"

>>8028225
>>8028173
Crying isn't immature by itself but other people cry about people they love dying for example. Those people call you immature is not because of the precise financial value attached to the dress but the fact that you cry about clothing in the first place.

>>8028240
Why couldnt they cry about the fact a complete stranger has a goal to take so much effort to make them feel miserable? She would have felt beautiful wearing their dress, and someone had the idea they should promptly stop feeling beautiful about themself. Your self esteem is not a financial value. And your self esteem isnt something you consciously think about in a moment like that, you just hurt.

>>8028253
Jesus christ, you just sound like a little princess. Now it's not the dress anymore but the fact that someone was mean to you? Someone spilling some shit on your dress isn't the drama you make it out to me. If this hurts your self esteem, don't even think about all of those people snickering behind your back.
This reminds me of that post in the Ireland thread about someone getting an egg thrown at them. It did bounce off but their reaction still was laughter, not having a little drama breakdown, because someone out there thinks they look like ass.

>>8028240
but it is about very expensive clothing being trashed for absolutely no reason other than the ketchup guy being a dick because he didn't like the way someone looks. fact is, if someone can't realize that, they simply are new as fuck or are underage and haven't worked a day in their life.

>>8028262
Or you know they've had worse shit happened to them in their life. Or their reaction is anger.

>>8028265
Just because they've had worse happen in their life doesn't mean someone else's situation isn't bad. This is the underage logic that I'm exactly talking about. Fuck off. You aren't a special snowflake. You only sound like a selfish prick when you say something like that.

Man, who knew there were different walks of life on earth who can be more sensitive than others? Crazy, right?

>>8027355
>herb lesbians

Never heard of that version of rosemary before. How long were you stuck there? Or are you still there now?

>>8027537
You're in the right here, anon. I guess that edgy kid is samefaggin to make a point. I'd certainly shed some tears if some stranger commited a random act of meanness against me and ruined my clothes.

>>8028261
Can you stop trolling this thread with your sperglord inability to drop this tired conversation, please. Contribute or GTFO.

>>8028230
Whoa, if you have kids over, you have to lock away your shit. When I had my little cousin over, he wasn't allowed into my room unless I was with him.

>>8027409
Must not be a lolita then because bitch you'd cry/

>>8028261
I was the egg anon there, actually.
I laughed because the people who threw the egg at me misunderstood how fluid my skirt was going to be, and missed. Had the egg smashed, I'd have been pissed, even though egg washes out and my skirt was black. Also, the guys in the car were out egging people, they had nothing personal against me, they were just dumb assholes.

The crying anon's aggressor went out of his way to GET something to DESTROY her dress with, followed her specifically, and succeeded.
Ketchup on white is difficult to salvage. Maybe with stain remover and bleach you could salvage it, but if there was print or something bleach isn't an option.

Also bear in mind the crying anon was coming home from a meetup, so she was tired. She was aware of the weirdo following her while she was alone, so she would probably have been on edge. Doesn't take much to upset someone in that condition. My personal reaction would have been to get angry and maybe chase the guy, but I can understand crying because I'm not a bloody robot.
You don't really get to invalidate other people's reactions to having strangers slight them. Come on.

>>8028233
But you would get angry. And some people cry when they get angry. It's not like they're sad over the loss of an item, but upset/frustrated that this avoidable situation occurred because a stranger was spiteful.

> no emotional value
Then why are you angry? Is anger not an emotion?

I guess I'm my own lolita horror story. I'm really shy and introverted, and spill my spaghetti a lot.
I can't help liking these attention-grabbing clothes, even though I don't really want attention myself.

All I can do is try to be polite, I guess.

>>8027357
Thats horrible anon but I can't stop laughing

Horror story: Filling out Closet Child's online order form

I mean I know there's a guide and it's not hard to follow but would it be so difficult to create an English translated page

At least make the "country" box not a drop-down of countries using only japanese names, guys

>>8028329
a-anon...

>>8028355
I know, I'm a mess...

>>8028354

AMEN TO THAT

>>8028283
Still in Japan, gonna be here for another three years.

>>8028354
...I never had a problem ordering from Closet Child...I don't even recall the problems you're having. Are you using Chrome with an inbuilt translator? Then you just have to work through the Engrish.

I saw the loneliest Lolita in Japantown in LA over thanksgiving. Japantown in LA isn't very Japanese. Most Japantowns don't have any Japanese in them.

Anyway, maybe 17-20 like that. Shit coord. Just walking around and going into stores full of touristy bullshit. Probably wanted to meet other weeboos but it was mid day on a holiday week. I wanted to take her picture to joke about on here, but it wasn't laughable, just weak.

>>8028376
I'm so sorry you have to be stuck there with them, but hopefully you get to make some cool friends and see some cool shit.

>>8028389
That's so sad.

>>8028329
I'm pretty much the same way, but I think I can be good at "faking" being social a lot of the time. It's only once I have to talk in front of a group of people or someone asks to film me that it all unravels and I lose my shit. I'm really shy and hate being stared at but I love lolita, so when I'm at meets and stuff I'm good at talking to people I don't know.

not a horror story, but every time i drive in lolita i have this fear that i'm gonna get in an accident and have to go through all the insurance exchange/towing/police shit while looking like a retarded victorian child

>>8028469
holy shit thought this was just me, i wear ott sweet often and im always just thinking
>if that car accidentally merges in to me im going to be dealing with it in a apron and a dress with lacy ponies on it...
so i drive more carefully in lolita

>>8028469

Off-topic for lolita, but a cosplay horror story I had is very similar to this. Keep in mind this was the height of the Death Note days. I was dressed as Misa, my girlfriend at the time was Matt, and her friend was Near. We were all in the car, driving to the shitty local con, feeling like hot stuff when all of a sudden this lady rear ends us. It was clearly out of nowhere and I was so shocked, then the reality set in and I remember panicking and saying, "OMG we're gonna have to call the police AND I'M DRESSED LIKE A HOOKER!"

>>8027392
Its not just the dress though, its also the fact that someone followed you just to do something like that

>>8028469
>>8028482
This is something that has never occurred to me but now that's all I'm going to think about when I'm behind the wheel in frills.

>>8027397
Aww, that's kinda sweet.

>>8028488
Seriously. If anyone followed me at all when I was alone in the dark, for any reason, I would be freaked. Someone threw a box of take out leftovers at me one time when I was waiting at a light. None of it hit me, but I was so pissed that I started to tear up. It's harassment and it's not okay.
>inb4 "go back to Tumblr"
Or maybe learn that throwing shit or pouring shit on people is beyond sperglord shit and is full on gross/mean. That kinda shit warrants an emotional response and it isn't immature to be upset, god damn.

>>8027265
K if this is true that's completely fucked. I would have called the cops. In b4 "anon thats overkill". No. That's like. Following you, harassing you, and then damaging you personal property. Almost one of a kind, expensive ass property. I would have fucking descended upon him like a howler monkey.

>>8028230
>kyoot little babbu

Rage levels rising, I would flip my shit.

>>8028469

I got a flat tire while wearing lolita.
Pulled into a relatively empty parking lot and went out to change it in the fucking hot sun.
I was like "oh fuck.. well, at least I'm alone."

People kept driving into the lot just to fucking gawked while I sweated through my dress and lifted my car with a hand jack and got shit out of my trunk.
Seriously, I swear to you that, like, 30 people came into that abandoned lot within 15 minutes, circled, then drove off.
Hair,makeup, and coord all fucked up.
I was so fucking frustrated that no one was even stopping to help that I just got back into my car and continue to flip off the fuckers that kept driving in for no reason other than to catch a glimpse of me.
Called my brother and he drove to help me out.

I haven't worn lolita since and have now switched over to more "casual" styles.

The nightmare is fucking real.

>>8028240
>what is sentimental value.

>>8028540
I don't blame them to be honest, they were probably going to help you but normalfags are so worried about getting killed by a crazy person that they took one look at you and left.

>>8028233
The thing about lolita and in particular dream dresses is that they hold a lot more emotional value than their ~$300 or whatever price tag. If you spent a year or more trying to hunt down a dress that you really love, and then some shit sprays ketchup all over it for no reason, that sucks and the money you lost isn't the reason it sucks

>>8028553
I'm hardly an intimidating girl, and I wasn't broken down in a bad area.
What, are people usually wary of girls in bright, frilly dresses? Afraid I might stab them?

It was a case of people being gawking assholes.
I highly doubt people were concerned for their personal safety when they saw me.

>>8028469
>>8028482
>>8028484
>be my friend
>be filthy homestuck a few years ago
>be in a car full of other homestucks on way to homestuck meetup
>everyone in troll cosplay
>car gets pulled over
>cop wonders why there are grey people

>>8027357

>>8028540
>>8028469
I used to have this exact same fear.
Then I had a car packed full of lolitas and got a flat on the way to a meet up once. It was really fucking hot out too, and one of the girls I was with just thought it was the most hilarious thing that I was out $200 for a new tire and kept trying to encourage me to ride my donut to the meetup and back. We had a really difficult time changing the tire and eventually a really nice guy stopped and helped us, and didn't even ask about the clothes until the donut was on and we were ready to go. All in all it wasn't as horrid an experience as I'd made it out to be in my head, except for the dumb broad taking pictures and laughing at my misfortune.

>>8028440
>>8028329
Tip: practice being cheeky. It sounds weird, but being cheeky is the easiest way to wedge yourself into a group that you're not familiar with. Just practice it to ensure that you're not getting annoying to the point that others don't want to be around you.
If you stutter a lot, practice pausing and taking deep breaths instead of saying "um""oh" and such.
If you freeze up, practice expressions in the mirror. Make them really exaggerated, so that if you feel like freezing up in a conversation and need to just smile and nod, you can do so without looking weird.
As for meets where you have to talk a lot, just try to avoid heavily oily, salty or sugary foods and foods with lots of dairy. Those will affect your voice negatively for at maximum 3 hours, so they should be avoided before a big meet with lots of conversation.

>>8028329
>>8028440
I know this feel to goddamn well. It is the worst and if you tell people they always think you are lying.

>>8028469
almost spat my food out

>>8028572
Stop trying to explain reason to trolls and autists anon.

>>8028505
Oh wow, something like this happening to me is my worst nightmare. Chess Story sells a Lolita raincoat, I'm tempted to buy it and wear it all the time.

>>8028469]
In a related horror story

I had just moved to a new town and decided to go to a con about one hour away. It was a Friday afternoon and I dressed ahead of time because I wasn't sure when I would get into my hotel and It was only an hour's drive, nothing could go wrong!

About halfway there I am pulled over by a cop, I wasn't speeding, or swerving, in fact it was bumper to bumper traffic and I was stopped at the time, so I am just going where he tells me over the bullhorn thinking I must have a broken tail light. The cop directs me off of the highway, which was odd but not that odd, then he directs me down a few streets, again odd but not completely out of the ordinary, and then he directs me to the seediest fucking street ever. It was lined with homeless people and janked liquor stores, iron gates and broken glass as far as the eye can see. Normally I am not afraid of those sorts of places, but that is when I choose to go there, and never in expensive looking or odd clothing.

So we arrive at the shithole, and the cop has me roll down my window and he starts asking all those questions that have nothing to do with why he pulls you over, I still had out of state licence plates so he drills me on what I was doing in "his" state and "his" city. All the while looking me up and down and leaning his head into my passenger side window to look around. Eventually he asks for my license and registration, I hand him my license and pop open my glove compartment for my registration... only, it isn't there. My glove compartment is empty! And then I remember that I had only just re-registered my car before I moved and like an idiot I hadn't put the info in my car first thing! But no worries, my new stickers are on and I have all the insurance information, just not the recent papers. So I tell the cop as much and he tells me "Thats not good enough, get out of your car please" and has me wait on the sidewalk while he hops back into his car to look up my information.1/3?

>>8029064
I don't know how much time passed but I stood there while all sorts of less than reputable people walked by and stared me up and down, one guy paused directly across from me and stood there for a long while, just staring. Eventually a tow truck pulled up and started to hook my car up, and then the cop told me that my registration was two months out of date according to his computer and without papers I couldn't prove differently, I asked how I could stop this and get my car back and he told me "There is no way you can get your car back until monday". At this point I was pissed, but also scared because it looked like he was taking my car away and leaving me in a scary as fuck street dressed in an extremely attention grabbing outfit. I had just moved there and as I had told the cop long before he told me to get out of my car, I had no friends or family to come pick me up if anything went wrong (he asked specifically that. If I had been thinking clearly I would have dialed 911 then because that is a freaky and fucked up question imo, after this I have always called the local highway patrol to make sure the red and blue lights are in fact a real police officer. So, like once when it wasn't even me they were pulling over, BUT STILL! Anyways,) I was standing there while my car with all of my bags including clothing and money was being chained up and nothing to help me but a cell phone that was already near dead when I realized the only person who could help me was the one who fucked me over.

>>8029067
This cop was about an inch shorter than me (5'5") and had built as fuck arms, basically he looked like he was compensating for something. It was a fucking longshot but my only thought was "cry so he will feel manly and help you" so I did my best to cry, but I don't normally cry even when upset and I want to cry. So I just covered my face and made sounds while working up to a few tears by rubbing my eyes. It didn't exactly work but he did let me grab my purse and suitcase (everything else of value had to stay though), and after some pleading (with the rubbed red eyes and tears) he agreed to help me find a hotel to stop at... BY THROWING ME INTO THE BACK OF HIS COP CAR. Not "hey just sit here while we get there" but the whole grasping your wrists and placing one hand on your head deal. By then I was really crying.

long story short, I made it to a hotel un-murdered and pissed as fuck. I called my home state's registration, repaid, and had them fax the highway patrol my info within twenty minutes despite the fact that they "Can not fax registration info under any circumstances", made it to the highway patrol office to get the papers to release my car, then bribed the taxi guy to speed his ass to this crazy russian impound place where they were FUCKING PLAYING CARDS AND DRINKING VODKA LIKE A FUCKING MOVIE, and got my car the same damned day, out of fucking spite if nothing else. I was sweaty and gross so I changed into jeans and a t-shirt in my car and fucking made it to my fucking con. Later I figured out that my registration was not so much out of date as it was they never got my emissions test, which doesn't make sense to me as they seemed fine with the information I gave them when I was in a panic... So anyway I had to pay out over $700 for what was as far as I can tell was a filing error and a cop with something to prove. But damn did it feel good to Prove that dickhole wrong and get my car that same day. 3/3

>>8029074
Oh wow, you should've complained about that cop, sounds like a total dick.

>>8028505
tbh I think it should be a form of assault.
That shit isn't just gross/mean, it is destructive and damages peoples property.

>>8029074
jesus, I'm sorry that happened to you anon, cops can be the worst fucking douches

>>8027392
Something tells me this guy is from another board has no idea how expensive lolita is

>>8028716

>>8027265

That's why I always carry my parasol. If you touch my precious burando you give away your right to inviolability.

>>8028261
The way you completely lack any empathy for others feelings makes you sound like a sociopath, anon. Tortured any small animals lately? Or have you moved onto harming family members already?

>>8029450
>falling for obvious cross-boarding bait
>with tumblr-esque hyperbole outrage

pls go 4ever.

>>8029064
>>8029067
>>8029074

You were scammed. The cop and /or the city gets a percentage of what you paid the tow company.
You could have had perfect paperwork, and the cop would have found/made up a reason to have you towed.

>>8028296
I am contributing, just because you personally dislike what I think about this particular topic doesn't make it trolling. Contributing is not "post only things I agree with".

>>8029590
what is one supposed to do in a situation like that then?

>>8028505
>>8029199
No shit, people are mean. People can be mean to you in so many ways, you can't go crying to the police every time with "waaaah! that guy was mean to me! arrest him!" because they seriously won't bother.

Besides, going "hey, that is NOT OKAY!" is fucking stupid. Do you think he doesn't know it isn't okay? Because he does, that's why he's doing it. He's doing it to be mean and provoke you and make you cry. As will many people in life, and you can't just break down and cry over every single person who does that because that accomplishes nothing and will only destroy you in the end, not him. And it won't save your dress either.

When I was younger I used to cry whenever someone was bullying me or being mean to me. They weren't tears of sadness, just frustration, but it only makes them laugh at you and pick on you harder and call you a crybaby, because that's what they're trying to get out of you in the first place. And if you complain to someone the first thing they will tell you is that you shouldn't cry.
Crying isn't immature because "only babies do that" or because it isn't a valid emotional response, it's because by now it should have happened to you enough times for you to know that it isn't what you should be doing in that particular situation and that you should instead be proactive about it. You'd think someone who frequents 4chan would know how it works.

And btw >>8028261 is not me before you call me a troll/bait just because you disagree

>>8028819
holy shit i have crippling social anxiety and this is the best advice i've ever gotten for it tbh. thank u based anon

>>8029638
Document what you can and take it to state or federal authorities after getting your property returned.
You can go to TV stations or newspapers but they may actually make things worse.

If you google "police towing scam" you'll find it's not that uncommon.

>>8029714
I have pretty bad anxiety (I'm the type of person that gets hot flashes if someone says something negative about me here), and being cheeky is seriously one of the best things for me. I've always been naturally kind of snarky, so once I've kind of gotten to know people, it comes out and makes people think of me as the funny, deadpan one, and not some weird shy girl that never talks. You just have to make sure you're not coming off as being a rude bitch instead of a clever jokester.

>>8029648
>you'd think someone who frequents 4chan knows how it works
>4chad

You'd think someone who frequents wizardchan and /suicide/ knows it's completely okay to cry. Fuck off, making it about you again with your "my problems have been worse than yours!" bullshit. Again, you're not underground and special for browsing 4chad, and you're certainly not giving anyone here a peptalk. You'd think that anyone who's crying in a situation like that has either been through so much that they can't take the littlest things anymore or they already have so much stress going on in their life that a shitty situation like that, is just the fucking cherry on top.

>>8029648
lol k

>>8029648
That wall of text. What's your problem with people who cry? Just let them cry if they want damn.

>>8029923
but anon crying is FOR DA WEAK! people shouldn't cry or laugh or be angry or have any emotions. EMOTIONS ARE FOR DA WEEK!11

>>8029924
I wonder how mad they get when someone types the i cri everytim meme lol

>>8029904
are you going to cwy about it?
am I making you upset and hurting your widdle fee-fees? Aww, poor bb :C

What could she have possibly been through? Her nail broke? Her hair got messy from the wind?

Why does everyone keep responding to the troll???

>>8029940
this post literally makes you look like you're the only one who's upset because they called you out on your bullshit ngl mate

>>8028716
Off topic for cosplay-related horror, but on the subject of cops and cosplay:

>Be at con in with several friends in homestuck cosplay
>Friend's iPhone phone is stolen
>Immediately flip on Find my Iphone and track the phone out of the con to a local neighborhood. It's somewhere in an apartment complex.
>Cop car sitting nearby. Friend wants to ask them for help.
>All of us are in full fucking grey.
>Cops don't blink twice and take my friend into the station where they write up the report, continue to track the phone, and actually catch one of the thieves over the next few hours.

To this day I'm surprised they didn't laugh in our faces. They must have just figured we were part of the local con even though we were a good mile or two away.

>>8029940
>getting this upset over girls crying

Didn't your mom ever look at you when you were a child and think "I should have aborted this abomination."?

>>8028716
Off topic for cosplay-related horror, but on the subject of cops and cosplay:

>Be at con in with several friends in homestuck cosplay
>Friend's iPhone is stolen
>Immediately flip on Find my Iphone and track the phone out of the con to a local neighborhood. It's somewhere in an apartment complex.
>Cop car sitting nearby. Friend wants to ask them for help.
>All of us are in full fucking grey.
>Cops don't blink twice and take my friend into the station where they write up the report, continue to track the phone, and actually catch one of the thieves over the next few hours.

To this day I'm surprised they didn't laugh in our faces. They must have just figured we were part of the local con even though we were a good mile or two away.

>>8029940
>:C
4chan is 18+
You don't have to act like an angsty edgy teen for us bud. Isn't it your nap time kiddo?

>>8029957
no, but yours must have
girls cry, but women don't unless they want attention or someone to do something for them

>>8029980
>>8029957
Just stop feeding the troll, guys. Post more horror.

>>8029980
>no but yours must have

For when you have no originality or insults, copy what the person has already said to you.

>wahh my problems are worse than yours!!

You seem to be the only one wanting attention here. And by what you type, you are clearly too young to be here.

>>8029990
yeah, as a matter of fact, my problems ARE worse than yours. Because I don't whine on the internet about a mean man spilling ketchup on my pretty dress :(((

>>8029980
Lol look at how assmangled you are over that. Go away nigger. Srsly just kill yourself. Someone put this child in the abortion bucket

>>8029980
Who hurt you anon?
who made you feel so small that you have to tell yourself it's weak to cry?
what did she do? Toy you around? Make you cry only to make fun of you?
who hurt you

>>8029998
>implying im the person who posted that story

Lurk more if you can't tell who's who. Did you get slapped around so much that you don't let yourself cry anymore. Did your uncle touch you

>>8029998
MY PROBLEMS ARE WORSE THAN YOURS GO AWAY ANON GOSH MOM GO AWAY IM ON THE INTERNET ANYONE WHO THINKS THEIR PROBLEMS ARE WORSE THAN MINE ARE IDIOTS

shut the fuck up you delusional whore

>>8029998

>all these homestucks posting in the lolita thread

fuck off, you deserve every bad thing that happens to you

>>8028469
>car ran a red light
>into my protected left turn
>shoes across intersection, pants cut off in the street by paramedics with people taking pictures and driving by, blood on everything else
>brand, phone, and tablet was luckily in my backpack, undamaged

It could have been a lot worse, but now that the "clothes cut off in the streets" part has happened to me, the burando destroyed in an accident fears seem more valid.

>>8030098
Half this thread is idiots taking one troll's crying bait. At least they're posting stories.

>>8030171
bro.

>>8027394
rosemary aka rose and kanaya

>>8028469
I was splattered with fake blood to go work at a haunted house when a guy rear-ended me one time...the look on his face was priceless, he looked like he thought he had killed me or something.

Bump

>>8028469
>>8028482
>>8028494

I do character acting for charity and kid's bday parties... I drive so much more carefully when I'm dressed as a character because imagine how pissed people would get if a disney princess cut them off in traffic goddamn.

also princesses don't have car accidents haha

>>8029869
But what if you're being cheeky to people who, like you, are sensitive but are putting up a front?

I know a girl who is like this and honestly the jarring difference between her sarcastic 'front' and how she acts so sweetly when she's comfortable or online makes me scared that she's being two faced.
My logical brain tells me that her behavior makes perfect sense because we've talked about it, but when she acts like this my lizard brain interprets it as the same sort of bullying that goes under the radar as 'banter'. It's not my place to tell people how to cope with their anxiety but I'd rather someone acted a bit delicate than they had a split personality.

I heard this story from a friend.

>Anon prepares an amazing coordination with a fairly expensive Victorian Maiden dress in a cream color.
>Goes to a huge Tea Party in an expensive restaurant.There is lots of Lolitas in the same place.
>There are long tables to sit with lots of people.
>During the dinner, a girl in the neighbouring table says a joke, which cracks a strong laughter in a Lolita of that table, who sits behind anon
>That stupid motherfucker laughing girl moves her head to the back and hits the waiter, who was carrying cocoa. The hot cocoa fells on anon and the Victorian Maiden dress is ruined.

Why are most of these horror stories

>something out of your control happens
>dress is now stained

why is it never
>fuck up hard
>dress is now stained

>>8042479
Wat

>>8028389
hmm I'm really hoping this wasn't me. I got to go to Japantown for the first time ever over thanksgiving. I was also leaving for home that very night so my suitcase was already packed. I just wore a grey sundress with my petticoat underneath.

>>8040176
>bullying that goes under the radar as 'banter'
why do some girls think like this? banter is banter, it's not bullying. When I banter with my male friends they all take it in stride and respond appropriately, but with girls they always get buttmad and say I'm being mean or bullying them.
>inb4 you're bad at it
I've done that in a mixed group of male and female friends and they never have a problem with the lads saying the exact same thing to them. But when a girl says it, it's automatically "she's trying to bring me down and shame me! what a bitch!"
Just admit you can't handle the banter.

>>8030098
i can tell youre new
there are always homestuck threads on cgl, this board has plenty of homestucks

>>8042503
There have been those stories in the past, but I think most lolitas are just very, very, very careful about their dresses - it's more likely that someone else is going to fuck up, not us while we're wearing the dress.

>>8028153
I have a really expensive monitor for my computer and my dad had friends over who brought their kids. The boy was probably 3 or 4 at the time but he went into my room, took a pen, and scratched/drew all over the screen. I was fairly salty. At least my dad felt bad enough to help me replace it but the kid barely got punished.

>>8042567
maybe its a wakeup call to learn how to dress

>>8028309
Not the same anon, but I've had coffee, cocktails and beer spilled on my dresses and I've never cried about it. I've gotten angry and was probably salty about it for the rest of the evening but I didn't cry. If you wear lolita enough you're going to get something spilled on your dress at some point.

> Take CTP to dry cleaners before going to San Francisco for AP tea party.
> Pack it in suitcase as soon as I get it back so nothing happens to it.
>Pull it out the morning of the tea party to find giant stains on the back of the skirt that weren't there before. $600+ dress ruined by the dry cleaners.
>Try not to cry as friend I'm staying with pulls out a tide pen and works on my dress so I can finish getting ready. Thankfully most of it was on the back of the skirt and harder to notice.
> Too late to go complain to the cleaners once I get home since it's a couple weeks after I took it there. Handwash CTP and manage to get most of the stains out.
> Never take dresses to get them dry cleaned again, just carefully hand wash them myself.

>>8042899
Different anon here. There is a big difference between accidentally spilling coffee on your dress, and being stalked by a random person who intentionally destroys something you care about, especially in such a shocking way. I mean, squirting ketchup all over a white dress? Only a total psychopath would do that to a random girl on the street. "It's immature to cry about a dress" is missing the point. I would cry if someone did that to me regardless of what I was wearing. Some people cry more easily than others. and they don't always throw screaming tantrums or break down in "boo hoo hoo" sobbing like cartoon babies.