Customer: “What are these?”
Customer’s Straight Female Friend: “Duh. Those are bandanas.”
Me: “Those are hankies. For the Hanky Code.”
Customer and SFF: [blank stares]
Me: “The Hanky Code was basically Grindr before there was Grindr. Each color represents a specific sexual preference or fetish, and the hanky itself is worn in either the left or right back pocket to indicate top or bottom.”
SFF: “Oooh, like those bracelets we wore in high school!”
Me: “Wait… what?”
SFF: “Yep, just like them.”
And then they left, and a) what the hell kind of bracelets was she talking about, and b) what the fuck was going on at her high school? I mean, we had slap bracelets when I was in school, but those just meant “I am dangerously close to severing an artery.”
Oh, and in middle school, we had those handmade friendship bracelets that I could never figure out how to weave. One of my teachers used to call them germ catchers. I don’t judge, but it kinda sounds like this chick was wearing germ catchers, too.
ETA: Mystery solved. (Thank you, Jessie! You’re a fuzzy peach.)
Marjorie's Forgeries 
What does it say as a straight female that I knew about bandanas but not jelly bracelets? I guess that I’m just old?
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We wore jelly bracelets in lower school, but I don’t think they meant anything. At least I hope they didn’t.
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I’m curious to ask my kids tonight if they think those bracelets mean anything. When I was teaching middle school a million years ago, we had to ban pacifiers (yes, the things you still in a baby’s mouth) because they were being used as gang signs.
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*stick not still. I’d blame autocorrect but I’m not on a phone.
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I wore jelly bracelets and I didn’t know anyone who used them like the hanky code.
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I still wear a black jelly bracelet. But nobody has tried to break it. hmmmmm And honestly if they did, I would be pissed.
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