2nd Grade
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No matter how old I get, I have one fatal weakness: the desire to impulsively cut my own hair. (Yes, quarantine has been rough.)
The first time I ever cut my own hair was in 2nd grade. A few weeks before, my sister had been getting her hair cut and, not to be left out, I decided to tell my mom I wanted bangs. So I sat down in the stylist’s chair and ended up with bangs….that I immediately decided I didn’t actually want. Now, any normal child would probably just wait for their hair to grow out till the bangs were no longer a problem…I’m not that kind of person.
Two weeks later I’m sitting in class at my desk, and I can’t help but be transfixed by the pair of scissors in my crayon box. I wish I could say there was some sort of internal struggle not to cut my hair in the middle of our math lesson, but there was not.
I lifted the scissors our of the box, took them to those bangs, and left the blond hair sitting on my desk. I don’t really get why it was such a big deal to my teacher, but I ended up getting written up. My dad freaked out when I got home and sent me to the salon next door to try and fix it, resulting in the period of time where I ended up with a pseudo-mullet… Maybe if I could go back and stop myself, just maybe I wouldn’t have to deal with that story being retold at every family reunion… But let’s be honest if I didn’t do it then it would have happened in 4th grade…and it would have still happened again in high school…And again last week…
At least I’ve gotten better about cutting it straighter.
