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Yesterday I screwed up.
I was playing airsoft with the boys and we decided to go to a burger place, Culver’s, to get some food. Most of us wear OCP (or Multicam) camouflage while we play. I am one of these people. One of the guys was wearing M81 Woodland. None of us wear unit patches or anything that would affiliate us with the military, only the camouflage.
We head towards Culver’s and walk in. It’s about 5:15pm and the restaurant is in full dinner rush. We get a parking place and head inside. The moment we walked in the doors we had people staring at us. I could feel peoples eyes on me in my combat shirt and combat pants.
We wait to order and the awkwardness is so thick you could cut it with a knife. I walk up to order and halfway through the order the manager steps over and swipes her card and tells the guy taking my order to add the “military discount.” After she steps away I tell him, “I just got done playing airsoft with my buddies. I’m not military.” He looks back at me, shrugs and tenders the order. I reluctantly pay and walk to fill up my drink.
I can still feel the eyes on the back of my head as I fill up my cup. After filling up my cup a buddy and I walk back to find the group a seat. The both of us find a table and sit down. There are still people looking at us.
When the rest of the group come and join us they remark that they had the same experience with their respective cashiers.
We sit there for an hour chatting and eventually people disregard us and go back to their food. That didn’t make it any less awkward though. I made sure that I ordered some different camo for the next time we play. I don’t want this to happen again.
TLDR; I wore the US standard issue camo into a restaurant after airsoft and it was…awkward. I ordered a different pattern to mitigate this for the next time.
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