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azurelunatic) wrote2001-07-23 02:39 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2001-07-23 02:39 pm
Darkside's Haircut
Well, damn.
I was just getting used to Darkside's hair in its new morph, kinda short, but enough to be a little wavy, enough at the back to curl up a little (Darkside has the loveliest hair and should be encouraged to grow it whenever possible, which I do, and which he prefers) -- it wasn't the best, but it still looked like him . . . and I show up at school this morning to find him shorn.
Surely your school had one of these boys:
He was skinny and the height of a slightly tall girl, which meant he was short for a boy, and he was in the school's math club. He had no social skills. He walked slightly stooped over, and wore a pocket protector with far too many pens in it. He carried a great huge calculator with him wherever he went, and a pad of graph paper, and a slide rule just 'cause. Thick glasses, huge on his scrawny little face. He always looked clean-shaven, until you realized that he would have no facial hair until he was thirty, if not after that. He shaved anyway. His light brown or dark blond hair was in a conservative cut very close to his head, trimmed every two weeks and held in place with insane amounts of hair styling product, even though he didn't need it. He most likely had braces and spoke with a lisp.
Darkside has this haircut. Darkside now looks exactly like this guy. His only saving grace will be if he grows a mustache (but not a beard). I told him exactly what I thought of it, leaving out no portion of the unflattering picture of the stereotypical nerd he now looked exactly like. At each word he cringed more, obviously thinking the same.
"It'll grow..." I said encouragingly (or at least I hope I did).
Darkside's dad decided, with a whim of steel, that if Darkside was going to be doing job interviews for a new job to go with the move, then Darkside should cut his hair for the job interviews, and ordered that Darkside go out and get his hair cut.
"I wish I'd gone in there and told them to take off a millimeter," Darkside mourned over his Mountain Dew and doughnuts. "Then I could have gone back to my dad and told him, 'See? I got my hair cut!' . . . Dammit. I should have thought of that."
I wish I could have told him it looked okay...
Darkside's got social skills, though, and he hates math, and he's a martial artist, and he could kick the butt of any football player fool enough to mess with him... or any nerd, for that matter. Geeks, nerds, and weirdos are my kind of people... it's just sad to see someone who's finally started to look like himself shoved back into the mold.
FUCK YOU, MISTER EX-CAPTAIN GUY!! WHAT KIND OF ASSHOLE ARE YOU?
Scary thing is, Darkside's dad isn't even abusive... he's just a callous religiously intolerant brat and doesn't want his little boy to ever grow up.
I was just getting used to Darkside's hair in its new morph, kinda short, but enough to be a little wavy, enough at the back to curl up a little (Darkside has the loveliest hair and should be encouraged to grow it whenever possible, which I do, and which he prefers) -- it wasn't the best, but it still looked like him . . . and I show up at school this morning to find him shorn.
Surely your school had one of these boys:
He was skinny and the height of a slightly tall girl, which meant he was short for a boy, and he was in the school's math club. He had no social skills. He walked slightly stooped over, and wore a pocket protector with far too many pens in it. He carried a great huge calculator with him wherever he went, and a pad of graph paper, and a slide rule just 'cause. Thick glasses, huge on his scrawny little face. He always looked clean-shaven, until you realized that he would have no facial hair until he was thirty, if not after that. He shaved anyway. His light brown or dark blond hair was in a conservative cut very close to his head, trimmed every two weeks and held in place with insane amounts of hair styling product, even though he didn't need it. He most likely had braces and spoke with a lisp.
Darkside has this haircut. Darkside now looks exactly like this guy. His only saving grace will be if he grows a mustache (but not a beard). I told him exactly what I thought of it, leaving out no portion of the unflattering picture of the stereotypical nerd he now looked exactly like. At each word he cringed more, obviously thinking the same.
"It'll grow..." I said encouragingly (or at least I hope I did).
Darkside's dad decided, with a whim of steel, that if Darkside was going to be doing job interviews for a new job to go with the move, then Darkside should cut his hair for the job interviews, and ordered that Darkside go out and get his hair cut.
"I wish I'd gone in there and told them to take off a millimeter," Darkside mourned over his Mountain Dew and doughnuts. "Then I could have gone back to my dad and told him, 'See? I got my hair cut!' . . . Dammit. I should have thought of that."
I wish I could have told him it looked okay...
Darkside's got social skills, though, and he hates math, and he's a martial artist, and he could kick the butt of any football player fool enough to mess with him... or any nerd, for that matter. Geeks, nerds, and weirdos are my kind of people... it's just sad to see someone who's finally started to look like himself shoved back into the mold.
FUCK YOU, MISTER EX-CAPTAIN GUY!! WHAT KIND OF ASSHOLE ARE YOU?
Scary thing is, Darkside's dad isn't even abusive... he's just a callous religiously intolerant brat and doesn't want his little boy to ever grow up.