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This was in today's paper. It is a real hoot....
Dear Miss Manners: I have very long, well-taken-care-of hair. The issue is this: Whenever I go out in public, complete strangers walk up to me and start playing with my hair, raking their fingers through it or even pulling it to see if it's real. What would be an appropriate way to tell them to stop wituout making anyone feel uncomfortable?
Gentle Reader: The correct thing to say when a stranger grabs you by the hair is, "Help!" If you sincerely want to make such a person feel comfortable, you could instead say "Mmmmm," but Miss Manners regrets to tell you that this will not encourage anyone to stop.
This is not a plesent article to read, but it helps to make one aware of how quickly an accident can happen.
When this guy went to work that day did he leasve his common
senese at home?
I have to agree with you, this guy is not the brightest person around, is he?
Well, this only proves that even among intelligent, cunning, nice, with good taste people, like longhairs are (: there are a few that are not so bright. Every rule has it exception.
Unfortunatly there are a few longhairs who only use their heads to
grow hair and apparently nothing else.
That is a very disturbing image. I would have a dificult time dealing with it if I were there too! It's hard to believe that anyone on a construction site with suh LONG hair would not be aware of his hair at all times. It certainly should have been in a braid, or better yet pinned up somehow.
Yes there is a risk that long hair can get caught in rotating equipment, but, as the article says, the hair can be tied up to prevent such accidents. The hair doesn't have to be cut to be considered restrained in a proper and safe way.
Just pull out a gun and say "you touch my hair I blow off your
head."
This has happened to me on several occasions and I have never been able to think of anything to do rapidly enough to respond in a manner i think is appropriate. Seems like assault to me, but perhaps the person who is doing the violating feels it is ok to touch another person's private body parts without permission. Perhaps the proper response should be reaching over and groping a private personal body part of the assailant. Maybe such a thing is customary wherever they come from.
I love the way Miss Manners expresses things!
Chris