The COW and FROG

I had an asignment in Sociology to go to do something out of the ordinary and document people's reactions. What would you think if, while walking into Wal-Mart, you witnessed a cow and a frog sitting on a bench? Well, Jessica, the frog, and I decided to find out. Would you ignore the fact that anything is out of the ordinary? Would you stop and ask what is going on? Would you act annoyed; or just smile? I would like to place these possibilities into two categories: friendly and unfriendly responses. As a Christian whose main objective in life is to positively influence as many people as possible, it would be very beneficial to distinguish what it is that moves individuals into one categories or the other. If I can move more people into this friendly category, I can influence more people in a positive way, and that would be worth the effort.
As we were preparing for the experiment, my assumption was that most people would ignore us or act annoyed, but to my amazement, the majority of those who passed by were friendly. Most smiled or chuckled, said hello, or even stopped to ask us what we were doing. Because fashion is such an important issue in our world today it is nearly impossible to pass by a display like this without noticing an abnormality. With this realization at the beginning of the experiment I was very uncomfortable, but the longer I sat there and the more people began to warm up to us, the more I began to feel comfortable with the situation. The spotlight is a lot more kind when your audience is accepting.
I concluded from our research that our breaking of this background assumption had a positive response because the unordinary aspect of our apparel was friendly and innocent. Being outside of the norm caused people to make an instant decision on whether they would have a positive or negative reaction and there internal reaction reflected on there external response. In conclusion I must ask myself, if being out of the ordinary in my apparel will allow me to more positively influence people then why am I not wearing a cow costume everyday?