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Notes on being a blonde...
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Now reaction a work has been mixed. The owner, a double take and then laughter, advice on how to color my hair more naturally.
The staff, acknowledgement, laughter, some tell me they preferred the old salt-and-pepper, others politely state they like the new look.
I tailor my wardrobe to match.
The nephew, he takes issue with my telling him to shave - he looks ridiculous, fine dining with a weeks, two weeks worth of beard, but I've the audacity to dye my hair?
The hostess, I've persuaded her that it's my natural color, I'm dyeing my eyebrows for shock effect....
The customers, reactions are mixed.
The more matronly female customers, and by matronly I mean closer to my age than I care to admit, they pull me aside and recommend hairdressers, treatments, they'll pay, I'm their new gay confidante...
The regulars, some gasp, others laugh and openly jeer, others - politely, tell me it looks nice.
Overall, the verdict seems that if you knew me - or recognized me - before the bleaching, you won't like the change. If you didn't know me and have no points of reference, comparison, you don't mind it. Some even seem to like it.
The owner, he's not such a fan, it leads to discussions of his own dye job - natural, of course, to cover the grey, but it's an awkward topic, everyone knows but it's not discussed. My ridiculous hair job brings it into the open...he's not comfortable.
Frequent questions: "now tell me/us - do blondes have more fun...?". I can't answer this, I tell them, I haven't had enough time to find out, but when I do I'll make a movie...
Small deflections I have - "No, no, I've darkened my eyebrows, I've always been blonde...". One customer almost believed me, at which point I openly queried her blondness, natural or fake...fortunately she had a sense of humor.
Other observations, made to customers for the point of cheerful banter - "My relations with women have improved, formerly girls would help me across the street, now they ask me directions to the nearest crack-house/gay bar....". Or - "I had to dye it after last Friday's crimestoppers...". They laugh nervously.
So it goes. I don't notice it, not enough time spent looking in the mirror, sometimes, when I do glance, I'm surprised. I'm overall fond of it, not so fond that I'd do it all the time, but I'd try it again. In any event it doesn't matter, in a couple of short months I'll be in Alaska (or the Yukon or Northern BC) and really, appearances won't be that important...
They used to be bros...
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For a while G was "dating" the Nephew's girlfriend's sister.
Big nights out, double dates, for a while they were "bros" in the literal sense of the word, but somehow or another it fell apart.
G's explaining it to me.
"He said she was a slut..."
And I'm raising an eyebrow, G continues...
"I mean, from the stories he told me I was pretty sure she'd..."
Graceless, this, where upon hearing a girl's a slut I'd lose interest fast, G's interest was piqued, he played his cards wrong, though, got nowhere fast, and now he's blaming the Nephew.
"Why would you be interested if you thought she was a slut?" I ask by way of provoking him, inferring by my tone that he really ought to know better and somehow the fault is his, he sees where I'm going, doesn't want to answer. She's blocked him from her BBM, Facebook, doesn't answer when he calls, I can only surmise somehow he came on a little strong, heavy in his hopefulness that she was easy, he's a bit upset.
Meekly now, defensive, it's not his fault: "He said she was a slut..." .
"Well, buy them a drink then..."
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We have a group in the restaurant, oil & gas, name of the reservation synonymous with recent world wars and corruption. You can't have turned on a TV in the past year or watched a documentary without seeing some reference to their nefarious doings.
The owner doesn't recognize their name, "Oil and Gas?" he asks, I explain that their name is synonymous with the Iraq war, Internment Camps, environmental catastrophes, high level corruption and oligarchy in both the US and abroad.
He thinks for a moment on this, then:
"Well, buy them a drink then..."
Lists of Note
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From the same blogger who brought you letters of note comes another one: Lists of Note.
I like lists, and so it only makes sense that I'd like reading other peoples lists, often as screwy and messed up as my own...
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