I got in contact with iZentai, in a semi random way, read more about her and her challange at: iZentai’s Blog … Let’s briefly start by putting the background in:
Heros, last Sunday, LycraDuctDape (LDT) came in saying that he’d been mistaken for me as he was out at a club and was wearing his Dalmatian zentai.
LDT, Mortice and I think Flurric got chatting to this (at the time) random person, and found out that she was doing a 28 day zentai challenge. Well after a bit of Google searching, we found this person, and I made contact.
I randomly suggested (due to the confusion of identity earlier) that we meet up and have a wander round London. That suggestion was accepted, and so we decided today would be the day.
SOOOO ….. at 11:30am I left the house as Spot, all but the hood to start due to needing to drive. Once at West Ruislip station and the car-park ticket bought, the hood went up. With my oyster card safely tucked inside my suit so I didn’t need to physically carry anything, we set off to Westfields Shopping centre (warm and dry, indoors). On arrival, we found iZentai and set of for an amble. Loads of happy smiley people asking random things, waving and Spot even had his tail pulled by an adult, who’s response when I turned to see what was happening was “I couldn’t resist”. I laughed, and wasn’t worried … She was being a child again, and that made her happy. That’s what the whole point of this is about, making people accept the not-so-normal but in a nice happy way. I suppose you could say we definitely succeeded with that lady.
Short lived though 🙁 … After saying a cheery “Hello” to two security guards earlier and they waved and said a “Hello” back, another 2 security guards approached us about 5 minutes later to confront us with “It’s policy for Westfields for no hoods” … they were being some what annoying, it’s not like they can’t re-trace our steps … how many other Dalmatians do you get in a shopping centre … It’s not like we could easily hide, and anyway we were not there for trouble, we were there to bring people a smile to the day.
Ah well, we left peacefully, as it would have defeated the day if we had to de-hood.
So … where next???
iZentai had sought permission from the V&A museum and checked that Zentai would be allowed and they agreed, so back on the tube (after what seemed like an age of walking in the cold as the security had asked us to leave by the nearest public exit, unfortunately being at the wrong end of the centre for where we wanted to get to) … Down onto the tube, and again a load more cheery waves from people, an interchange and another tube line to the South Kensington station where we walked the tunnel to the V&A museum.
Well, We hadn’t got more than 2 paces into the V&A museum and the bag-checking security guard went to me “Do they feed you on Pedigree Chum?”
That’s an interesting was of asking it! but means he either a) knows more about life than in normal public knowledge, or b) meant we brought him a smile to his job that day … I mean really, how boring: looking into bags all day long!
Bags checked in at the cloak room, and we were off for a wander round the museum, bringing people smiles 🙂
Even the mirrors thing sort of exhibit that ‘focusses about 30 mirrors onto an object via a camera and motors etc’ liked me! Every time I got near they instantly ‘looked’ at me! Poor iZentai, being in black on a black floor the mirrors sort of ignored her *hugs* from Spot.
We did well at the museum; we were there for an hour before a security guard decided he didn’t like us 🙁 After giving their usual response of “no hoods, etc” and “The supervisor will be here in a moment”. iZentai was fairly calm about this and also was very good at explaining to the security guard and eventually the security guard relented and let us on our way. To be fair, again, how many times do they get a Dalmatian zentai and a black zentai in the museum … it’s not as if we were hard to find! Equally I don’t think the guard liked the fact that we’d chatted to the entrance security and they were happy, the info desk were happy and lastly many security people passed us and not on was worried.
Well, about an hour and a half at the museum and then off to find a quick bite to eat before it was a shame to have to say ‘home time’
Back on the tube as a pair of Zentai-ists for the last time … and at Holborn we departed company 🙁 *Tail between legs*
Onto the Central line for us where a few cheery waves from various people in the carriage we were in, and then the day seemed to come to an end all too soon 🙁
*Tail between legs* *sulks off to a corner* Hopefully more Zentai and Spot time coming soon 🙂
Again, once the pics have been extracted from the camera I’ll upload a few.