We don’t dress up but my husband and I will sometimes use different accents and pretend we’re from a different part of the country or world. My husband is better at it then I am but I play along. He once had a patron at a bar believe he was from England, then when the patron asked where he grew up he said Alabama.
We sometimes use the voices of the characters Early and Adele from the movie Kalifornia. We talk loud enough for people near us to hear and we get strange looks. It’s funny to us.
Recently we were standing on our deck. It faces a busy street with a few bars and lots of pedestrians. One drunk man stopped to chat with us. He talked our ear off and mentioned how he always forgets names. I took the bait and introduced myself, knowing he’d probably never remember the moment. I told him my name was Karen. He believed me and joked about how hard it would be to have that name right now. My husband said his name was Felix and then whistled the theme to The Odd Couple.
These things are so easy for my husband to do. Me, not so much. Once I started to get over my fear I began to have fun. I try to make sure when we role play that we do it where we’ll most likely never see these people again.