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Wild Hair
Date Added: December 29th, 2007
Funny things happen to me all the time, even while I’m at work. This one’s from my younger days, newly out of KVCC where I’d graduated with my Dental Hygienist degree.
I was a fairly new hygienist and was working on a middle aged woman (maybe I shouldn’t add that part … as I’m probably considered middle aged now). As I lifted my hands out of her mouth she began talking about something … probably about her kids’ or something, obviously this was prior to me having kids, as I wasn’t really paying attention to her story. That was then it happened. I noticed a hair on her cheek … and it was a biggie, about 1 1/2 to 2 inches long. I’m sure some of you can picture where things are going, and some of you are laughing even now. Heck, even the fact that I’m like a little kid, my mind wandering from her to the mysterious hair. I couldn’t shake it. It was practically calling to me, “Touch it”. So … you guessed it … I went to brush the hair away and it didn’t move. Who would want a big old dark hair just hanging out on their cheek, right? So I proceed to take it up between my thumb and forefinger with the intent of just a helpful flick, and much to my embarrassment her cheek tugged along with it! Oh my God! It was attached. Quickly to cover my tracks I pretended to brush away toothpaste saying I had splashed some on her cheek. But I’m sure my rose colored cheeks gave it away. Needless to say … I let the stray hairs lie now.