Gee, fivestring, If a VW full of girls would have made you nervous this would have made you pass out...
When immediately after graduating high school, I registered for summer school at EMNU (Portales, New Mexico) and put my name as Pat, I was asssigned a room in the freshman dorm, the freshman girls dorm, that is, as someone had a mindset that Pat implied female. I was unaware as the dorm was just referred to as Xxxx Hall. I show up with my luggage ready to check in and the dorm mother says, "name please?" I reply, prefaced with Pat and am informed of the room number AND the fact that MEN are only allowed beyond the reception area to assist in moving in/out and that during the regular semester are not allowed "inside." I may have been young and naive and a bit slow but I wasn't stopped... I did detect an incongruity, something that wasn't quite right, a small nuance of disconnect, a mere trace of... well, you get the idea. As my head was spinning through the options, including cheap drugstore wigs, I was assigned to another dorm, one for the married students in summer school... but that is a different story.
Pat