Your Bad Experiences With BJD's in Public

I brought my first doll to school once. I had a problem with some of these boys in my fourth period class. Everyone else was very interested and nice about the fact that I brought a doll with me. This one boy, however, who was in a little posse with other guys who like to bully me, decided to throw a ball at her! I really could have just...

I controlled my anger. It wasn't the worse thing this guy had done, after all. Some people just cannot handle things outside of the norm. I just pulled off her wig and demonstrated eye removal to a friend while they all gawked. They couldn't even handle it XD So far this has been my worst experience. I hope it stays that way!

 

once a friend of mine (we were classmates) take her doll with her to school. (at this time i was saving money for my first doll)
we sit in the classroom and talk about something. then i see behind her a boy starting poke the siting doll with a biro! o.Ô
i told him to stop and my friend took her little boy on her lap.

 

Wow, now I'm really glad that nothing happened when I brought my boy to school! So many horror stories about just that event.

(Actually, I did get stared at, but that's because he was bald and without a face-up, and the other non-BJD I had with me carries an ax...)

 

I have not really had a bad experience in public. I would have to say the worst would be at a convention I was at.

I had cosplayed and I was carrying my doll and someone wanted my photograph. We were in the middle of a crowded area with nowhere safe to set my doll down. I told the person they could take the photo but they wanted my to pose and to set the doll onto the floor (where crowds of people were walking around us). I told her no and she was furious at me and went on about how I shouldn't cosplay and whatnot. It mostly came out of her not understanding the value of the dolls, monetary and otherwise.

It wasn't a terrible experience, but it was frustrating to be yelled at when she was telling me to set my expensive doll down on the floor to be trampled.

 

I haven't had that many bad experiences in public lately because I realized I haven't brought my dolls out for a while. I've started to wonder why that is...

When I first got my Bory, I (stupidly) had him in the shopping cart as I left Walmart. A lady coming in through the exit door bumped into my shopping cart and kept going as Sky crashed into the concrete. To this day he bears the scars from the combined stupidity of myself and that random lady. He had a few nicks (quite small) on his arms, legs, and face. Luckily, they aren't immediately noticeable.

Much more recently, I was attending a dance concert, and one of the administrators came out to speak to my friend, who is an usher. At the end of her sentence, as she is obviously rushing off to attend to other important matters, she shoots quickly in my direction with a smile "that's a creepy doll" and zips off.
...Ok. Gee, thanks?

Besides that, I get sick of people asking "why do you have it?" It's like they expect me to say I'm conducting research on their reactions or something.

 

Well, it's hardly the norm to see someone walking around with a crazy detailed doll on their arm. Curiosity is warranted, rudeness may result. -_-

Whatever they know naught!!!!!

 

The closest one I had so far is some guy called my doll a Barbie...o_0. Then my grandma bragging about my doll and downing it on how expensive she was in which she wasn't really based off from a secondhand from a friend. And my aunt saying that my doll isn't worth the money.

but after Christmas I would need to take my doll to work so I can take her to an event...I hope my co workers don't mess with my doll a whole lot

 

Worst doll experience with my BJD's in public was probably the first time I tried to set up a little scene outside...I got so frustrated because the wind finally went and knocked my first doll over onto the pavement. I got so mad I grabbed all my things and went inside. Haruka didn't see the light of sunlight until that summer when it was hot and muggy out (she doesn't have a face up so no worries about that.)

 

It's not that bad, but during a doll meet we were going down to the local park from the cafe we started at to take pictures and I was carrying Aiden in my arms and his wig almost blew off as we were crossing a busy street!

 

the worst experience that I've ever had with my BJD out in public was last week
I took her out during the day for the first time to school with me
some people called her creepy and I got a few stares, the wind kept messing up her wig, a guy in one of my classes tried to flip her skirt (and I smacked him for it), some people in my class made jokes about her having her own seat in the classroom, and when I went to hug two guys that were screaming "free hugs" they hugged me so hard I thought they were going to crush her
but in the end nothing happens except some random little stains on her left hand and right thigh and both those came out quickly with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

not bad at all compared to some of the horror stories that I've heard here, but it was kind of annoying

 

My worst experience just happened today.

My library holds a local anime club and a good friend of mine that I don't get to see very often asked me to bring my doll. There was a girl who asked to hold her so I said sure since the others there were all gentle with my doll, and the girl started to swing my doll by her hand and then tried to flatten her legs out, making inappropriate comments and trying to undress her. The elastic started pulling really bad and one of her legs with getting really messed up. She didn't listen to me when I asked her to give my doll back until I grabbed for her.

As I was leaving, one of the employees asked about her and when I finished talking to her, I could hear her co-worker makng fun of her.

 

Oh my god...That's horrible. I would've been bawling. If that happened at my local library heads would've rolled.

 

A few years ago I had just moved to California from Minnesota to go to school. I didn't know anyone and never had much luck meeting people and making lasting friendships. Googling one day, I learned about BJDs and fell in love with Luts Delf Lishe. I ordered her almost instantly thinking she would fill my loneliness and lack of friends.

At school, I tried really hard to be friends with a pretty popular blonde girl in my class. I really wanted her to like me. I opened my heart and conjured up enough bravery to ask her that if one day when she going out with her friends if I could tag along. She avoided answering my question, I could tell she was embarrassed. I had truly hoped that by my open friendliness and sheer will, she would reciprocate.

A few months went by and Lishe finally came. She was beautiful and perfect. I gathered up enough bravery and took Lishe with me to school one day. At first sight, the blonde girl said that Lishe was creepy and scary looking. I wasn't going to argue with her, thinking she wasn't really serious. Overhearing some classmates, I learned that after class the blonde girl and a couple of our classmates were going out to eat at a nearby restaurant. I thought it would be a most opportune time to make new friends and especially hang out with the blonde girl. She was driving everyone, but as I approached her car with Lishe in my arms, she took off!

I decided to walk over to the restaurant and met up with them in the parking lot. The blonde girl was so startled that I was there with Lishe and shocked that I even followed them on foot. Another girl had to explain to me right then and there that the blonde girl didn't want me or my doll to hang out with them because she was scared of it. She compared the situation to how she liked spiders, but wasn't going to make everyone else hang out with the creepy crawlers. The other girls were giggling like it was sooo funny.

At this point I was already devastated and heartbroken. I muttered something like, "That's ok, I'll just walk home then." I turned around and ran away bawling, like how little kids do after being bullied. They were so nasty and insensitive. I was so sad, but when I finally got home and stopped crying I realized that those girls never wanted to be my friends in the first place. People like that were not worth my time and effort. And Lishe was still beautiful and perfect, and I knew I could confide in her on one of my worst days.

 

I'm so sorry you had to deal with such bullies. I'm glad you realized you didn't need people like them.

 

bishie_hunter, I'm so sorry about what happened to your mom, that, I think, is the worst one I've read on this board. Especially because it was your mother...! And she clearly was just starting out. Nonetheless crushed afterwards and eventually sold her doll. ):

mxiong, it sucks that happened to you, and I'm glad you eventually realized they weren't the people for you. However don't you think it was a little weird to be so determined? I certainly would've been weirded out by a girl who continually tried and tried to talk to me, then followed me to a restaurant with her doll, especially if I wasn't interested...

 

Some of these stories make me glad I don't take my dolls outside. I think if I ever do, I'll take them to the countryside for photos with the flowers, not in my city haha.

 

Only place I'll take 'em is to places to photograph or meet ups. That's about it and if anyone gives me lip unless they come right up to me I can ignore them EASILY. I've had worse then a creepy doll comment. "Why are you bald?" "Haven't you found a better hair product yet?" "*feeling head* Hey look at it.. IT'S BALD." ect...Yes I've had total strangers grope my head. I don't think anything could be worse then that so taking my dolls outside and getting random comments about it is not my worry. I don't intend to let strangers hold my doll and possibly damage them unless they want a knuckle sandwich as return for ignorance regarding other people's property.

 

I haven't had too many bad experiences.

I think the worst thing so far is people just touching my doll without asking.

AND THEY ALWAYS GO FOR HIS FACE.

 

My worst experience in public with my doll was my very first outing.
It was a mini-convention and I took her in hopes of meeting others with dolls of their own. Sadly,I was mistaken...
A very...odd...girl came up to me and commented on my doll saying it was interesting. I wanted to try and not become over protected over her,so I offered to let the girl hold her. *Sitting very close to me of course!!* The girl declined and instead poked my doll's foot...

"Are you sure? I always wanted to hold one before I got mine."
"No,I just have a plastic fetish...Besides,I'm straight."

And she huffed off.

It's not a "omg so terrible" experience,just super awkward and saddening....and very,very confusing.

 

This absolutely happened to me-

I was walking in the mall with my doll because I had taken him to their garden for a photoshoot. I was on my way out and stopped at a cafe for something to eat and sat at the bar. A guy at another table came up to me and said, "So whats the deal with the doll? Are you a freak or are you just lonely?" I'm pretty sure he was trying to flirt. But I was not amused. Luckily I gave them a disgusted look and the bartender said "Leave my customer alone!" The guy said something about making conversation and they got in a fight and I just sat there.
Finally I said "Maybe he's just a retard."

And the man got so offended he left.

Serves him right. >:[

On the opposite spectrum, I went into a place I used to work with one of my girls and got a coffee and all my old coworkers were taking pictures and posing her in the kids section and when I left customers followed me out and wanted to see her. xD
On a plane once I kept my dolls in my carry on purse for safe keeping, and I took one out to see if he was okay. I was sitting on an isle seat and next to me was a little girl who was coloring with crayons and she asked if she could draw my doll. It was so cute!