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I just returned from a business trip to Barcelona and thought I'd share the hair-related comments I received.
Flight from San Francisco to Frankfurt: guy sitting next to me on plane asks if I'm from San Francisco. Apparently, people expect longhairs to be from San Francisco. They're disappointed to find out I'm from San Jose!
Barcelona while walking down the street: young woman grabs my hair and says something to me in Spanish. I have no idea what she said!
Barcelona hotel elevator: man asks me if its hot having such long hair.
Barcelona hotel restaurant: overheard something to the effect of "that's a man!"
Munich airport: a group of women airport workers giggle as I walk past.
Flight from Munich to San Francisco: after boarding but before takeoff, the plane developed a mechanical problem. Three hours later, we changed to a different plane and I said something to a flight attendant, who distinctly recognized me out of a group of several hundred passengers from the first plane! Hmmm, I wonder why...
Flight from Munich to San Francisco: flight attendant handing out customs forms looks at me and correctly assumes I'm a US resident.
San Francisco airport, voice behind me: "I really like that guy's hair. Must have taken forever to grow." People assume I can't hear them when I can!
Anyone else have hair comments they'd like to share?
Ed
people allways say to me can you hear me, and i allways say you idiot of cours i can !!!
I get alot of hair comments, but mostly positive. You were getting alot more negatives. Although I do get alot of negatives like being called Jesus (Might sound like a positive, but is put into a negative) I am also called gay sometimes or faggot (More people who don't understand my beliefs in long hair) I was also talking to my "friend" one time about something can't remember what but he said "That's why you grew your hair out to look like a bitch" Those are the negatives I know of, but when I am at home I get alot of positives. My grandmother and grandfather love my hair, and so does my mom and everybody else. I hate my stepdad sometimes when he gets a pair of scissors and acts like he is going to chop one of my locks off. I would kill him and I mean "Kill" him if he ever did that lol. I happen to think you have great hair. Keep on growing and I will tell you more about my hair comments.
Dwayne
I haven't been to Germany since 1995 I wish I could go back. Münich is a very pretty city. I was born to American Parents in Stuggart. I lived in Nürnberg or Nuremberg for 4 years.
Chuckle, it's as though they think all that hair blocks the hearing. Silly people.
JE
Hi Ed,
Quite a few years ago, I was traveling down the Alaska Highway whith a good friend of mine. When we reached the town of Prince George, she phoned a good friend of hers who was living there. She invited us to come and spend the night at her place. Shortly after our arrival,suddenly her husband left the house without saying a word. When it came time to eat dinner, I told my hostess if we should wait for her husband to return. It's at that time she told me that her husband had left the house because he just couldn't stand my long hair and that he had decided to spend the night at his brother's place.
Gilles
This all seems odd to me, because I have been to Spain many times and I have never had a comment of any kind from a Spanish person about my hair. I have always put this down to the fact that they are very formal and polite people, i.e. making a negative comment about a stranger would be seen as terribly bad manners per se. There again, I understand very little Spanish, so maybe I just don't know what they are saying! Your hair is longer than mine Ed, but I would be surprised if that was enough to explain it.
Agreed, Spanish people are very polite. The comments mainly came from other travelers.
Ed
