Peggy E.
March 13th, 2009, 08:30 AM
The home health assistant I have now is great and I absolutely love her - AND she has the most gorgeous long, wavy strawberry-blonde hair!
You can imagine my horror when last week she announced she was cutting her hair short and donating the rest to (guess who?!) - Yep, Locks of Love! No one had been coercing her to do this, she simply thought it would be a nice thing to do for someone (I did say she was a super lady, didn't I....).
We had a bit of a discussion - why she wanted to cut her hair (she was bored with it and didn't know how to style it); I gave her some information on LOL and steered her towards some of the other charities who collected hair for cancer patients (her brother died last year of cancer, and she was wanting to help a child with a wig). LOL doesn't do this and she was not aware of that fact.
Anyway, I went into my "Do it if you feel you must and it will make you happy, but....jeesh, you've got the most gorgeous hair!" advice. She knew I was heavy into long hair, so I didn't think my input would carry all that much weight - though I was able to help with the donation bit.
I figured she'd walk in the door Monday with short hair and I'd have to act like it was really cute and "oh, boy, what a difference" sorts of statements that aren't out-and-out lies, but skirt the fact that you think the person has made a desperate mistake without coming right out and saying so.
She hadn't cut it! She also works part-time at the post office and when she mentioned that she was going to cut her hair, every single person there - including customers at the window - had a fit and told her NOT to do it!
So, sometimes co-workers DO get it right! ;o) We're working now at finding styles for her to break up the monotony, but easy to throw together early in the morning. I was so happy to see that hair still where it belonged - on her beautiful head in all its shimmering glory!
Just thought I'd share a happy story for a change! :o)
You can imagine my horror when last week she announced she was cutting her hair short and donating the rest to (guess who?!) - Yep, Locks of Love! No one had been coercing her to do this, she simply thought it would be a nice thing to do for someone (I did say she was a super lady, didn't I....).
We had a bit of a discussion - why she wanted to cut her hair (she was bored with it and didn't know how to style it); I gave her some information on LOL and steered her towards some of the other charities who collected hair for cancer patients (her brother died last year of cancer, and she was wanting to help a child with a wig). LOL doesn't do this and she was not aware of that fact.
Anyway, I went into my "Do it if you feel you must and it will make you happy, but....jeesh, you've got the most gorgeous hair!" advice. She knew I was heavy into long hair, so I didn't think my input would carry all that much weight - though I was able to help with the donation bit.
I figured she'd walk in the door Monday with short hair and I'd have to act like it was really cute and "oh, boy, what a difference" sorts of statements that aren't out-and-out lies, but skirt the fact that you think the person has made a desperate mistake without coming right out and saying so.
She hadn't cut it! She also works part-time at the post office and when she mentioned that she was going to cut her hair, every single person there - including customers at the window - had a fit and told her NOT to do it!
So, sometimes co-workers DO get it right! ;o) We're working now at finding styles for her to break up the monotony, but easy to throw together early in the morning. I was so happy to see that hair still where it belonged - on her beautiful head in all its shimmering glory!
Just thought I'd share a happy story for a change! :o)