Well, it’s usually just my size, from what people have said. I used to lift weights pretty seriously, and even though I stopped ages ago, I’m still meaty.

When it isn’t that, it’s the beard and/or other hairiness. I’m a wee bit shaggy lol. One of my nicknames is sasquatch.

So, if someone is seeing me for the first time, one of those two is the first thing they’ll see. They’re obvious, unlike facial features or whatever.

Some folks do make assumptions. Big, hairy dude; gotta be a biker, or some kind of roughneck. Which isn’t really true. Don’t get me wrong, I was a bouncer as a side gig for a long time, but I was never one to go looking for trouble. And, while I have been on motorcycles, it isn’t something I was willing to do regularly, much less hang around a bunch of other people that ride when that’s all we would really have in common. Local bikers here are pretty much all macho dicks; that isn’t the case everywhere, I ain’t hatin on bikers in general. Just the local ones.

But, while sasquatch is one of my nicknames, one of the others that has been applied to me by people independently of each other (in other words, I wasn’t introduced that way) is teddy bear.

So, the assumptions aren’t accurate at all, in any real sense.