Like A Hair In Your Cookie...

Being a teacher, I'm fully aware kids don't embrace change.  Any shift in routine needs warning and explanation. Knowing this, I should have realized that showing up today with a different hair color would provoke unsolicited opinions from the kids.  I left feeling the same way I do when I'm in the midst of a really tasty cookie and I stumble upon a hair.  You appreciate the cookie, and you think you're on the receiving end of a good situation, but then you get slapped with a slight "screw you."

Allow me to summarize:

Example A: Picking my kids up from music

Mr. Sather: "I've heard Katy Perry comparisons, so congratulations." 
Me: "ooo, that's better than the you look scary I've been getting." 
Mr. Sather: "well a few said witch, but ehhh"

 

Ok....they may be on to something...

 

     

 

 

Situation B: Passing time comments

 

-Ahh, you look like my mom now! 

 *Could be a compliment depending on how old and funky mom is.  I chose to think she was a trophy wife who was a former homecoming queen nominee.  Then again this could have been a classic mom jean comparison....hair in the cookie.

 

-Ohhhh, Ms. Hicks!  This has made you prettier!

*Glad I upped my game.  Now I pass, but before I was difficult to look at??? Hair in the cookie.

 

-Is this an all year type of thing?

*Would have seemed positive until I turned around to see the kid making a poop face.  Hair in the cookie.

 

-Whoa!  What did you do, Ms. Hicks?!?!  You look like a teenager!

*Could be sweet that I look younger, unless he's insinuating I look like the teenager who's in the prime of their awkward stage where showers are rare.  Hair in the cookie.

 

-Ms. Hicks.  (Swirling motions with his hand above his head) what happened here?

*Again, this kid looked like a parent whose kid had missed curfew.  They're trying to allow you the independce to realize you've made a bad choice with body language.  Hair in the cookie.

 

Situation C: Calling mom

 

-I sent my mom a picture to see what she thought.  Her response "I really like it!  Now you'll just have to make sure you always wear makeup.  Otherwise you'll look pale.  You know it makes you kinda look smarter." 

*I fear washing my face before bed now. The worst. What if I freak people in my dreams right out?  Hair in the cookie.  

To those of you who fear my self esteem has taken a knock, no worries, most adults were very loving.  Plus, I've got a plan for shifting the attention from my hair.  I'm taking a cue from Tyson.  You almost forget how gentle his voice is with his sweet tat...