A night out.

[ilikekicks]

I'm glad I type VERY fast. As I mentioned in other posts, I figured I would give this ( Heeling ) a ' Shot '. A friend agreed to go with me and helped me out in choosing what boots to wear and to just ' be there '. Before I go further, I need to mention some things. My friend ' Gabby ' ( Not her real name ) is almost 6 foot tall and wears a womans size 10, sometimes an 11. I gave her a bunch of the shoes and boots that were left in my possession. Shes a longtime friend of my family and I consider her a non-biological sister. She is very well shaped for a woman of her years ( 45 of them ) and doesnt look a day over 35. Shes a ' model size 8 ' ( whatever that means ). Myself.. Im 5 foot 9 and slender ( usually around 150ish lbs ). Im a child of the 80's, have long hair and a clean face. The picture in my avatar is me. No corset, just fake boobs and a wig. Our ' Adventure ' was planned to be a walk up at Niagara Falls followed by whatever we decided to do afterwards. When the idea first hit, the weather here was ' warming spring '. It snowed this past weekend and it was snowing this afternoon and tonight as well. I didn't bring my camera in fear of damaging it. I do have MANY great pictures of Niagara Falls and offer them freely upon just asking for them via a private message . I wore my sneakers out of the house and into our Car. Gabby decided to tell em to try and drive with the boots on. Why not? I told her if I found it uncomfortable for driving I could change back into my sneakers. I was also wearing a pair of stretch-like jeans ( I dont know the names of all these things yet, Im learning, please gimme some consideration here ) as mine had to much material to stuff into the boots ( even though the boots had stretchy backs to them ). I didnt want to wreck the boots. Driving in heels.. in my opinion.. easy. My car is a standard shift and I didnt have any real problems doing this. I adapt easily in somethings though. Gabby was impressed. We arrived in the Falls about 20 minutes after our adventure started. Parked the car , grabbed my backpack and were off to take our walk. Its NOT tourist season right now and there werent many people around. Its 7:30pm-ish and dusk is starting to approach. We parked at one of the motels in the area not far from the Casino. All the sidewalks and walkways were ( surprisingly! ) cleared. Wet but cleared. The pathways out onto Goat Island are always nice. Well maintained blacktop. It was roughly a mile from where we parked. Out on the island is the first time we ran into anyone and it was a pair of younger ladies. They looked at us and were puzzled. Gabby being as tall as she is and myself being rather tall in those boots.. must have been a weird view from inside of 50 feet where someone shorter can have a good perspective on how ' tall ' someone is. Gabby was wearing a pair of boots similar to the ones I was and the 2 younger girls were in those UGG type boots. One actually came up and asked Gabby ' How can you walk around in those boots ? ' and then she noticed I wasnt a woman. I might have looked the part from a distance, but not really that close up. Gabby said ' its easy, just takes practice. Thats what hes doing, learning ' and she laughed. The young girl grinned ' looks like the shoe is on the other foot for a change! '. The girls friend came over and joined the conversation. Her friend was surprised I was a guy. Saying her jaw dropped would be an understatement. " You have more skill then me in heels and your a guy! This is sooo embarrassing! ". As it turned out, they were visiting. Their from Seattle, Washington. They decided to come see the Falls when it wasnt so crowded and asked where else was a good place to go to see the sights and for entertainment. Time passed and we were gabbing for almost a whole hour. Seeing as I know the history of the Falls and the Tesla plant thats here, we decided to be sort of make shift tour guides for a while. The Maid of the Mist isnt running yet ( boats that go out to the bottom of the falls ) and the passageways/caves were all closed as well. Too early in the season. We showed them where the Hard Rock Cafe was and the Rainbow Bridge.. gave them directions to where everything was and wrote it down as I had my backpack with me ( Pens/Tablet/Senakers and other essentials! ). I told them I had MANY pictures of the area from the summer time when its all in neon lights and the weather is much better. They both gave me their email addresses and a hug before departing and thanked us. Im going to say we walked a good 2 miles by now. Im glad those boots are a bit big and I wore some soft cotton socks in them to make up for the size difference. Gabby was a bit tired and we were both hungry. Theres MANY places to eat in the falls so SHE decided she wanted to eat at the Seneca Casino at the Buffet. Its a FRIDAY night.. that means a LOT of people. She must have seen the pleading look on my face when I countered with Chinese. So.. we went into the ' Noodles joint '( thats what we call Chinese places in my area, nothing derogatory meant by saying such ). Its a buffet as well. 9.50$ USD, all you can eat and I was REALLY hungry. We get inside and the little china girl comes to our table to ask what we want to drink and sees the boots. She tries to play it off like she didnt but the head and eye movements were giving it all away. Gabby sees this and just smiles. The place isnt crowded, but theres a few people. The waitress took our order for drinks and off to the buffet we go to get plates of food. I hear a woman at one table. I knew she was talking about Gabby and I. ' Are those guys? '. I had my back to her but Gabby was kinda walking sideways between 2 of the tables that they put the food out on. What I wanted was all in front of me so.. We loaded up and went back to our booth. Were eating and chatting about the 2 girls from Seattle hoping the snowing that was happening tonight didnt spoil their time and how fortunate we are to be so close to a wonder of nature, how we often overlook something so great because were used to seeing it all the time ( Novelty has worn off ). The Waitress came back over and asked how everything was. She couldnt take her eyes off our feet. Gabby decided to have some fun, ' Were here on vacation and could I get a picture of you with my boyfriend? '. " Sure!" So , I stood up and stood next to this small Chinese woman. She was MAYBE 5 foot tall and all of 80lbs. I had to lean over to put my arm around her. I noticed the couple that was talking about us earlier watching us and listening to our conversation with the waitress. The waitress had a look on her face that more or less was asking ' why are you wearing those boots? ' So, before she asked I decided to present an answer before hand. ' Incase you were wondering why Im wearing these boots, I just wanted to see what it was like. Maybe do one of those charity walks in the future or something. The girlfriend here thought I would need some practice before hand so.. why not? We wont run into anyone we know so far away from home. ' The Waitress was all happy. ' you good people do stuff for others! '. We left shortly afterwards on a full stomach. The Car was almost a mile away. It seemed a short distance compared to all the walking we did thus far. The bad thing was the boots were worn MAYBE once, indoors before I started playing with them this past week. They were starting to cause some discomfort but it wasnt that bad. We were making our way back to the car when Gabby ran into some of her co-workers. They were going to the Casino. 3 girls and a guy. I just shied away. I had my coat in my backpack and my hoodie up. My hair was hanging out of the front.. I kept to myself and wasnt going to partake in the conversation when one of her friends asked ' So whos your friend? ' So.. I took my hand out of the hoodies pocket and introduced myself. She was shocked. ' OMG! I thought you might have been a relative or something. Gabbys brothers are all like 7 foot and her cousins are tall too! I didnt realize.. ' So.. instantly, I became the topic of conversation. The question of if I was going to have a sex-change or something like that came up. The theme of being a drag-queen performer also came up. Honestly.. I didnt want any part of the conversation and was rather rude with my one reply. ' You can wear heels and you think nothing of it. Why cant I? Does E.R.A. only go one way? Should everyone be on the same playing field or not? Women scream about equal pay and wanting to be considered an equal on all terms yet I wear a piece of footware and Im questioned without doing anything wrong to anyone else? Doesnt that seem fucked up? ' The guy that was with the 3 girls started laughing. He went to cover his face and said something to one of the girls that I didnt hear. I looked at him and he put his hands in the air smiling. ' Guy, Im sorry but.. This is some funny shit! When you 2 first came over and the conversations started, I told Cindy here that I thought you had a hot ass. I didnt know you were a guy at first. No offense? '. I broke down laughing. " No offense. Hug? " We both laughed at the gesture and hugged. To break the small amount of tension, and seeing as a pub was all of 20 yards away, he offered to buy us all a drink. Gabby and the girls immediately jumped on the offer.. I had my sneakers in the backpack and thought about putting them on. It was a short lived thought as Gabby gave me this mean sort of ' pissed off wife ' look. Daggers coming out of her eyes type of look.. ' dont you dare think of taking those boots off ' type of look.. What made the sale was one of her co-workers offered to be my escort. Hmm.. Mid 20-sumthing smoking hot babe on my arm.. why not! So, the 6 of us gathered in a booth, I was stuck in the middle. That sucked as I dont like to be ' crammed '. The Ladies started yapping about work and Jeff and I were left to our own conversation. We gabbed about the local Hockey Team, talked about the lockout of the NFL.. eventually the question was coming. I told him of the story how I was in a long term relationship and how when all was said and done, I wound up with all these clothes and footware and other things. I told him I just had a thought about ' why not give it a go '. 2 of the ladies were listening in to my explanation/story and Gabby confirmed it and also told them ' all those expensive shoes I wear at the office, hes the guy I was telling you about! '. One of them just laughed out and said ' I want to be your friend and make sure the next babe you break up with wears a size 9 shoe! '. As we conversed, and after.. 3..4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. ( I dont drink so, I dont keep count ) One of the girls had an epiphany. ' You play guitar! '. Gabby brought her to one of the benefits we played a few years back. ' I remember you! You were wearing a schoolgirl outfit and had blond hair! '. I felt like my man-card was just taken away from me. " What are the odds? " was the question running through my mind. 4 drunk women all sitting here and Im the centerpiece of conversation in Over the Knee boots and reliving a moment where I was dressed as a Schoolgirl. Unbelievable. ( I should post those pictures just for a laugh! ) The Guy was just sitting there smiling and asked outright ' So.. do you like Women or.. What are you into? ' " Im into being myself. Ive never been with a guy but havent ruled it out. I thought I had the perfect babe but.. you heard the deal on that one. I must say though your one friend there is quite appealing but I need to ask if shes with you? ". ' No. Im not with any of them here. Actually, Im gay I just didnt know if you were cool or not. Theres all kinds in this world ya know? ' It was then that the ladies decided to inform me of HIS tales out as a ' lady '. Yep. They pulled/took away his man-card as well. Misery loves company! Needless to say, I obtained a certain well-looking babes phone number, Made some new friends, Helped out some tourists and had an overall fun evening out. Its my opinion that the locals in the Niagara Falls area on the American side really couldnt give a shit what you wear on your feet. Its not really a ' Socially Liberal ' area as blue-collar unions with the stereotyped ' real men ' are most common BUT, so long as your not bothering anyone else, nobody cares what you do. I'm sure there were people whom knew I was a guy wearing high heeled boots but I didnt hear anything negative or any ' Fag! ' connotations of any kind. Most of the eyes I caught taking a look were all of ' wondering ' and not judgement. There werent many people around so my experience was a ' small sampling ' of the normal. We didnt go into the casino or any of the larger bars/pubs/clubs in the area or any really ' crowded scenes '. I was a little apprehensive at first, but now, I see nothing negative at all with going out strolling in whatever I wish to wear on my feet. I've never seen anything ' wrong ' with such but had concerns of others reactions IE: Confrontations/Slanders/Idiots. I might have an advantage because of my build and im sure some from a distance probably mistook me for a woman. I've been called ' miss ' before by people when they have approached me from behind while at stores/markets. it happens. I had an advantage of having someone to go out with. Running into her friends whom were of like-mind and didnt care what I had on my feet was a bonus. I hope others go out and have fun. It was a good night out and I would definitely do it again. Cheers!

[jwhite44]

...I might have an advantage because of my build...

I had an advantage of having someone to go out with...

First, congratulations on your great outing. As detailed as your description was, I'm sure there was even more than happened (hopefully more good than bad) that made for a memorable night.

Second, I definitely wouldn't underestimate the advantages you mentioned above. You're out with a very confident heel-wearing woman, who is 100% supportive of you desire to wear (at least try to wear) heels, in an area that's admittedly pretty empty, and you were still tempted to ditch your heels for your regular shoes. You can just imagine what a stockier guy, maybe 6' tall, size 12/13 shoes, going out alone, has to go thru.

It'll be interesting to hear if you if anything happens with that woman whose number you got. Given that she met you in heels, at the least she'd seem to be accepting of them. It's to be seen if like Gabby she's also encourage you to wear them.

[ilikekicks]

Jwhite44, you are correct. There was one person whom had some rather vile comments. The woman that was with him apologized and took him away. It wasnt anything worth commenting about to be honest. The saddest part about it was the woman was very attractive and the guy looked like he just cleaned out a chicken coup. I dont understand that concept where a couple has one person whos very well mannered and well kept and the other is ' an eyesore ' in bot appearance and personality. Opposites attract? Not being judgmental at all, just pondering the thought. I did just finish talking with Gabbys friend. Were going to dinner tonight

[brake blocks]

ilikekicks, that was a very interesting trip out in heels:smile:. How did you feel at the end of the night? What was your friends reaction to the days events? and will she take another trip with you? Congratulations again, this should help others with their thoughts of heeling outside.

[ilikekicks]

Hello Brake Blocks. It was an interesting time but honestly.. besides a small bit of anxiety it was no different then any other visit I've taken to the falls ( Usually 10-15times a year to take pictures/ go to the casino ). How did I feel at the end of the night? My feet were a bit sore but I blame that on wearing new boots. The same happens with all new shoes though. Gabbys reaction to the nights events.. ' no big deal '. It was just 2 friends out having a good time. The boots were a side-show at best. A non-factor so to say. She would gladly take another stroll and so would her friend I had dinner with this past evening. Her friend was surprised I didnt wear those boots or something similar to dinner tonight. All I can say about heeling outside or just going for a stroll.. We are all our own person. What we wear on our feet doesnt create a ' new person '. We are still the same individual we have always been. What I would tell others : ' Just give it a try '. Find an area where the people are pleasant or friendly and give it a go! The curiosity of others WILL peak and they will ask questions.. maybe even pay compliments or give criticism.. that happens where we work, at home or any other place for that matter. Its just another common moment in life. I think Gabbys friend and I might become better friends though . As she put it ' A guy whom can wear those boots out like you did probably has no questions at all in regards to their sexuality! '. Of course shes right