When was the last time you changed your hairstyle?

[Sundae]

I knew a Claire who had hair down to her backside.
It was a huge part of who she was, it was almost like a friend of hers rather than part of her. I think she might have talked to it occasionally - well she talked non-stop, so who knows.

Very, very occasionally she would wear it loose. Then she would complain about all the attention she got from men. I sympathised at first - she was dark, petite, ultra-feminine looking (she swore like a sailor and was quite aggressive actually) and I could understand why she resented being pigeon-holed. BUT. After the first few times I began to see through the complaints. When she had her hair loose she acted like a woman in a seventies hair product commercial, flicking it all over the place and shaking her head back and rolling her neck.

She loved the attention it brought. She just wanted to make sure we noticed it too.

She had it cut at around the time we lost contact. To just below shoulder length. I bumped into her in a bar and she was off her face on something and she pinned me into a corner with tears in those big brown eyes because she missed her hair. I saw what she meant though. From extraordinarily long to just average long. Not short enough to make an impact on people who knew her, not long enough to attract strangers. She was diminished.

So I went to the bar to get her a drink and slipped out the side door. Well, I wasn't off my face and wasn't nice enough to sit and listen to her all night!