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My hair is down to my waist. I volunteer as a crisis counselor for the fire dept. Since male firefighters wear their hair long I get a few teases when I'm at a station. I braided my hair before going on duty last shift, thought it would be easier since my tail is also pretty full from using some of the products reccomended here.
When I was cleaning out our rig I raised my head up and somehow snagged the hair above my ear on a zipper pull of a fanny pack hanging from a seat. Whatever I did I was hooked solid. Tried to pull free without being able to see what I was doing. Hoping no one would see me, but my EMT came out just as I gave up,got out my knife, and cut myself free. He was kind and didn't snicker where I could see him.
My hair was a mess from the struggle, so just put it in a pony tail for the night. If I get in a hairy situation I tuck it inside the back of my shirt.
A couple years ago I was riding with an engine company and when the rig bounced my hair snagged on a piece of velcro attached to a helmet that was hanging above me. The firefighters enjoyed that, I didn't.
I wear glasses for distance, and often put them up on the top of my head for close work. Every now and then my glasses hang up there when hair gets tangled in the nose bridges.
Female firefighters with long hair clip it up or do elaborate braids for duty. I don't feel that's an option for me, just not enough in touch with my feminine side to walk into a fire station on duty with a French braid....
Anyone have any suggestions for detangling hair when it gets hung up on stuff. Something other than a crew cut.
TYPO! Sorry, male firefighters wear their hair SHORT.....
Just be more careful. Try wrapping the top of your head in a bandana and putting your braid inside your shirt or pulled around your neck once abd then pulled through
For your safety, you'll have to bun your braid, Medicine Horse.
OM
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Hey thanks, but the part that snags is the hair pulled tight on the top of my head, not the tail or braid. I don't know if I could muster up the testosterone to enter a fire station with a braid in a bun...
Interesting story Medicine Horse but is there a typo below
If male firefighters wear their hair long, why do you get teased and snickered at?
Charles
I braided my hair before going on duty last shift, thought it would be easier since my tail is also pretty full from using some of the products reccomended here.