Rev, can I hijack your thread for a sec? I have no other place to put this besides to file it under "weird things seen about town."
I work in a city of 25,000. I go to the post office daily. Yesterday in this semi-conservative town, I saw a guy walking into the post office. He was sporting:
Long scraggly shoulderblade-length hair, with a yarmulke-sized bald spot.
Long dangly earrings that sparkled in the sunshine.
An ugly man-face, with wire-rimmed glasses.
A top, unbuttoned half-way.
A mini skirt
Skinny but muscular legs, like a man's, clean-shaven.
High heel sandals
I kept walkin.

It's one thing to see that in San Francisco. But northern New York?