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Other shoesZoey Zara and Missy JagodzinskiThe PlanThis project took a lot of planning and re-planning. It’s hard to choose how you’re going to embarrass yourself in public. In order to prepare for our adventure as “Goth/Punk chicks, we first had to go shopping. Zoey’s mother took her shopping for the supplies. We purchased our outfits from the Party Tree. They were made up of spider web tights, red and black glovettes, and spider veils. Everything was red and black. The next day we got ready at Zoey’s house before heading out. It took us about an hour because we had to Google “Goth hair styles.” We looked ridiculous and felt the same. We then took a deep breath, tried not to laugh at ourselves, and headed out.The ReactionAnyone that knows Melissa and I knows that we are quite trendy people. We usually try to look our best in public and are proud of the classy reputation we have earned from this. So we decided to change things up a bit. We became Goth/punk chicks. It was the scariest and strangest experience either one of us has had. We started off at Steak and Shake. Before we entered the resturaunt we had people staring at us. When we walked in it was even worse. It was like a scene out of a movie when the pretty girl walks into the cafeteria and everyone turns and stares. Except we weren’t the pretty girl. One of the waitresses call us “them” as in, “You can go ahead and help THEM.” Our waitress was very kind because her outer appearance is different too. She was the only person that looked at us like we normal. In fact, she didn’t even charge me for my drink because she wanted to cut us some slack. One waitress stared at us WAY too long. It was highly offensive. This one man even pointed and laughed. Our next stop was Wal-mart. It wasn’t nearly as bad of an experience. There were a few people that stared us down and we walked the isles, but it wasn’t as uncomfortable as sitting at steak and shake. The greeter was at least nice. Next up we decided we’d try out someplace in good old Riverton. So we went to the Dollar General. There wasn’t much of a crowd, so we didn’t get much of a reaction. Anyone that we knew just laughed at us like we were crazy. Within seconds of starting this adventure we both decided that we shouldn’t be so quick to judge. That was what caused most of the stares. People were unfairly judging us the second they laid their eyes on us. And the sad thing is they didn’t even know us to judge. The AnalysisWe were highly offended by how we were treated as we went around town dressed as Goth/Punks. It was amazing how outwardly mean people can be. And the sad thing is, they probably didn’t even realize they were staring or being mean (with the exception of a few). That’s because it is such a common thing to do, stare at someone who is different. The most important thing we learned from this experience is that you should never judge a person by the way they look. Just because they are strange on the outside doesn’t mean that they’re strange on the inside. We were perfectly normal, nice, young girls who because of the way we looked, were judged and thought of poorly.

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Group: Zoey and Missy
Hypothsis: I think that we will get a lot of stares and laughs and such. I think that it will be a lot harder to do than i think because we will have people judging us before they know us and we'll be out of our norm....

Zoey Zara and I dressed up like punk rockers. It is totally out of our norm and it was a very scary and embarrassing experience. We were pointed and laughed at and we got more stares than anyone could ever ask for. People were obvious about it and they didn't try to make it discrete or anything. I know that I would never be able to do that on an everyday basis and I'm happy that I don't have to. It just goes to show you how judgemental people are and I'm really going to not judge people on what they look like because thats just who they are on the outside and not the inside=]