On Halloween I decided to go around in suit most of the day. This included picking my husband up from work. He is the manager of a shop downtown so it's a great chance to suit and have fun with the vanilla people. I show up and he tells me that they dumped some extra work on him so he has to focus on that for another our or so, I'm a big girl so I went to entertain myself. I go out in suit and start strutting my stuff around but there is a school near down town and the main city shops do a thing where they give out candy to the little kids and it turns out that is the same time they were doing this little crawl. I'm dodging ropes of 5-8 year olds who have been told to keep together and while i'm not looking a tiny little hand shoots out and grabs my paw and refuses to let go. I didn't want to be involved, last thing I need is someone thinking I'm a pervert in a costume looking to fiddle their kiddies so I tried to get away. The little girl cries and I let her have my hand back, I look up at the parent next to me, trying to gesture that I had no idea what was happening and she just says in the most creepy voice "I guess you are part of this now." I ask her "Do I get a choice?" She smiles and simply says "no."

The kids were trying to guess what adult I was, which teacher of course while little Elsa drags me along in her blue dress and tiara. She had to be 4 or 5 and once the kids were sure who I was they blurted it out, some male teacher. The little girl says in the sassiest voice you have ever heard "She's a lion DUH" and continues to drag me along saying that I'm her lion now and that I could protect her from all the bad kids. That was pretty cute. She thought I was a lion, not a person. One of the kids make sure to inform her I am indeed a person and she says nuh uh, she can roar watch. Put on the spot I do my most convincing roar, being in a metal group meant I have the nastiest growl you could ever hear and it made those kids jump! Elsa looked so proud.

The kids ask questions and so do the parents, apparently no one in MT has heard of stranger danger because despite the fact I had a mask on they were all quite comfortable. I guess it was because almost everyone in MT is packing heat. I helped the kids cross the street and things like that, standing in the middle of the walk way to usher them across "when the little white man shows on the light." I was kidnapped by Elsa and ended up being a nanny. At one point my tail was being used to make a chain of kids, doesn't bug me, my tail is attached to the bodysuit and reinforced, they weren't going to rip it.

We walked all the way up and down main street and I was dying by the time we got back to the crossing for the kids to go back to school. The teacher tells everyone that the lion has to go and say goodbye to the lion, none of those people knew who I was but they had seen me and other suiters at the mall for our bi weekly meet there so weren't worried, we always gave them a good impression. I knew public exposure helps! Little Elsa gives me a hug and asks if I will come back next year and I nod. She kisses my nose and says happy Halloween then I was on my way.

That is my cute story. My whole town is pretty open to furries. Hell lots of them know me out of suit now too and ask me sometimes if I can wear my suit for their kids parties. Not everyone hates furries.

I still stand by the idea that you should never interact with kids without the parents permission, never go to an event without calling ahead to be sure suiters are ok and never suit alone if you can. Safety is important.