Retirement Home Hair
Jul. 21st, 2004 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisMom is feeling better. She went to get her hair done today (her standing Wednesday) and she's a little happier with the new girl but it's coming up on time for a haircut and this is where the rubber meets the road.
For some reason this whole hair thing and Mom just cracks me up. Her hair is no great shakes. It never looks wonderful. It looks like old lady hair. She pays nearly $100 for her haircuts and, frankly, I could do it just as well and I'd give her the Mom discount!
But, her mother was the same way. This is the squishy arms Grandma. She had very thin hair. As she got into her 70's and 80's she had very few thin hairs. They lived in a retirement place - assisted living. Grandma had a barely functioning heart and Grandpa was blind as a bat (with a valid Oklahoma drivers license, I might add). The place had a little beauty shop there on site.
Grandma went every week to get curled and styled. Now, I'm not kidding... she couldn't have had more than 500 hairs on her head. This was before velcro rollers and I have no clue how they got rollers to stay in.
Grandpa always went along. They had free donuts in the beauty shop. He was the only man they ever let in because he was blind and couldn't see 'em. He'd sit there scarfing down the donuts and telling all the old ladies how good they looked. They'd twitter with delight. I never knew if they forgot he was blind or just chose to not know it right then.
Mom has more hair than Grandma did at the same age, but it doesn't really look any better and, honestly, most of the people she hangs out with can't see that well anyway. She spends a lot of energy worrying about it and a lot of money on it and a lot of time complaining about it. But, it's her energy, her money and her time so I try to put it all in the bucket labeled: What.Ever.
For some reason this whole hair thing and Mom just cracks me up. Her hair is no great shakes. It never looks wonderful. It looks like old lady hair. She pays nearly $100 for her haircuts and, frankly, I could do it just as well and I'd give her the Mom discount!
But, her mother was the same way. This is the squishy arms Grandma. She had very thin hair. As she got into her 70's and 80's she had very few thin hairs. They lived in a retirement place - assisted living. Grandma had a barely functioning heart and Grandpa was blind as a bat (with a valid Oklahoma drivers license, I might add). The place had a little beauty shop there on site.
Grandma went every week to get curled and styled. Now, I'm not kidding... she couldn't have had more than 500 hairs on her head. This was before velcro rollers and I have no clue how they got rollers to stay in.
Grandpa always went along. They had free donuts in the beauty shop. He was the only man they ever let in because he was blind and couldn't see 'em. He'd sit there scarfing down the donuts and telling all the old ladies how good they looked. They'd twitter with delight. I never knew if they forgot he was blind or just chose to not know it right then.
Mom has more hair than Grandma did at the same age, but it doesn't really look any better and, honestly, most of the people she hangs out with can't see that well anyway. She spends a lot of energy worrying about it and a lot of money on it and a lot of time complaining about it. But, it's her energy, her money and her time so I try to put it all in the bucket labeled: What.Ever.
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<DIV class=modulepad><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Mom is feeling better. She went to get her hair done today (her standing Wednesday) and she's a little happier with the new girl but it's coming up on time for a haircut and this is where the rubber meets the road.
For some reason this whole hair thing and Mom just cracks me up. Her hair is no great shakes. It never looks wonderful. It looks like old lady hair. She pays nearly $100 for her haircuts and, frankly, I could do it just as well and I'd give her the Mom discount!
But, her mother was the same way. This is the <A href="http://susandennis.livejournal.com/521389.html">squishy arms Grandma</A>. She had very thin hair. As she got into her 70's and 80's she had very few thin hairs. They lived in a retirement place - assisted living. Grandma had a barely functioning heart and Grandpa was blind as a bat (with a valid Oklahoma drivers license, I might add). The place had a little beauty shop there on site.
Grandma went every week to get curled and styled. Now, I'm not kidding... she couldn't have had more than 500 hairs on her head. This was before velcro rollers and I have no clue how they got rollers to stay in.
Grandpa always went along. They had free donuts in the beauty shop. He was the only man they ever let in because he was blind and couldn't see 'em. He'd sit there scarfing down the donuts and telling all the old ladies how good they looked. They'd twitter with delight. I never knew if they forgot he was blind or just chose to not know it right then.
Mom has more hair than Grandma did at the same age, but it doesn't really look any better and, honestly, most of the people she hangs out with can't see that well anyway. She spends a lot of energy worrying about it and a lot of money on it and a lot of time complaining about it. But, it's her energy, her money and her time so I try to put it all in the bucket labeled: What.Ever.
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For some reason this whole hair thing and Mom just cracks me up. Her hair is no great shakes. It never looks wonderful. It looks like old lady hair. She pays nearly $100 for her haircuts and, frankly, I could do it just as well and I'd give her the Mom discount!
But, her mother was the same way. This is the <A href="http://susandennis.livejournal.com/521389.html">squishy arms Grandma</A>. She had very thin hair. As she got into her 70's and 80's she had very few thin hairs. They lived in a retirement place - assisted living. Grandma had a barely functioning heart and Grandpa was blind as a bat (with a valid Oklahoma drivers license, I might add). The place had a little beauty shop there on site.
Grandma went every week to get curled and styled. Now, I'm not kidding... she couldn't have had more than 500 hairs on her head. This was before velcro rollers and I have no clue how they got rollers to stay in.
Grandpa always went along. They had free donuts in the beauty shop. He was the only man they ever let in because he was blind and couldn't see 'em. He'd sit there scarfing down the donuts and telling all the old ladies how good they looked. They'd twitter with delight. I never knew if they forgot he was blind or just chose to not know it right then.
Mom has more hair than Grandma did at the same age, but it doesn't really look any better and, honestly, most of the people she hangs out with can't see that well anyway. She spends a lot of energy worrying about it and a lot of money on it and a lot of time complaining about it. But, it's her energy, her money and her time so I try to put it all in the bucket labeled: What.Ever.
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