Hair hazards you never expected

[spidermom]

So there I was, laying on my back on the massage table, my hair spilling over the edge, the massage therapist sitting on a rolly stool working the knots out of my neck, when ow! ow! ow! She rolled the stool onto my hair!

What happened to you?

[Darkessa]

I was walking to the store yesterday with my fiance when a HUGE gust of wind blew my hair all around my head.
Next thing I know...
I inhaled a long chunk of my hair, then almost immediately pulled it out. I spent the next few minutes hacking and coughing while still being able to feel it in there.

[mzBANGBANG]

Here's one for the smokers. Had a small bit of cig left and needed both hands to function as I was getting out of my car, so I was holding it in my mouth. Cue gust of wind. Guess it's going to take me a little bit longer to grow out the fringe :-| needless to say I have never let that one happen again.


I have a mini travel hair dryer that I leave at my boyfriend's house. One day I was using it and out of nowhere, the back of the hair dryer started EATING my hair. After a couple sobs and realizing the only way I was going to get out of that one was to cut it out... that thing went immediately in the trash can. A blessing in disguise.

[MinderMutsig]

My hair got stuck on my back behind my bra strap. And not only that but it managed to tangle itself around the hooks to the point where I couldn't get my bra off and had to let DH cut me free.

[Shesta]

I have a mini travel hair dryer that I leave at my boyfriend's house. One day I was using it and out of nowhere, the back of the hair dryer started EATING my hair. After a couple sobs and realizing the only way I was going to get out of that one was to cut it out... that thing went immediately in the trash can. A blessing in disguise.


That also happened to me once, not funny.

I am approaching hip and although very slowly, this new territory already seem hazardous. Last night I slept with loose hair and it somehow slid and got trapped between the bed frame and the mattress. I guess the night bun is kind of obligatory now.

[Shesta]

My hair got stuck on my back behind my bra strap. And not only that but it managed to tangle itself around the hooks to the point where I couldn't get my bra off and had to let DH cut me free.

I hope he cut the bra and not your hair! :D

[molly_grue]

Getting into the car quickly on a windy day, I closed the car door on my hair.
(my hair was at the top of the door, I'm only apl)

[MinderMutsig]

I hope he cut the bra and not your hair! :D With the prices of bras these days? I'd rather cut the hair. :p

Fortunately he only had to cut a little and because my hair is plenty wavy I didn't even have to trim the rest to match because it blended right in.

[Covet]

Me and my brother were young and horsing around in the house. We had this coffee table that had a top for putting tea or whatever on it, 4 legs and something that was like a shelf at the bottom of the legs and above the wheels, maybe for magazines?

We decided it would be an awesome idea if I was to crawl onto the bottom bit of the coffee table and for him to run and push it at the same time. Needless to say it was really fun but my hair was hanging over the edge and got caught on the wheel. Not nice when he was running around the house at top speed. He took my screams as either me having fun or that I was scared and being an annoying brother, he wanted to scare me even further. He didn't stop until he actually realised something was up. I would totally do it again but this time with a hair tie! :)

[spidermom]

Oh no, Covet! Ouch!

[Kirry-Folk]

Having some of my bangs fall out while vacuuming an enormous dining hall during cold season. Didn't have time to go get a tissue, so I was very sniffly, and ended up inhaling a good chunk of upper-lip length bangs. I guess that's not really a hazard so much as a personal failure, though.

I did get my hair stuck in a washing machine agitator once. Luckily it wasn't on. :p

[pink.sara]

Getting into the car quickly on a windy day, I closed the car door on my hair.
(my hair was at the top of the door, I'm only apl)

^ This, all the time :rolleyes:

And if you sit down too fast you pull a chunk out every now and again.

Plus this morning I used a roll on deodorant for the first time in ages and got hair stuck in it in my armpit.... suddenly remembering all the joys of being past APL :o

[MinderMutsig]

Me and my brother were young and horsing around in the house. We had this coffee table that had a top for putting tea or whatever on it, 4 legs and something that was like a shelf at the bottom of the legs and above the wheels, maybe for magazines?

We decided it would be an awesome idea if I was to crawl onto the bottom bit of the coffee table and for him to run and push it at the same time. Needless to say it was really fun but my hair was hanging over the edge and got caught on the wheel. Not nice when he was running around the house at top speed. He took my screams as either me having fun or that I was scared and being an annoying brother, he wanted to scare me even further. He didn't stop until he actually realised something was up. I would totally do it again but this time with a hair tie! :)That sounds incredibly painful. It does make a good story though... "remember the time you almost scalped me?" :D

[summergreen]

2 whole braids sucked into the Hetty (vacuum cleaner) hose while vacuuming on hands and knees - stupidly I did this again 2 weeks later as well.

[princessp]

Door knobs. When your hair gets past TB watch out for door knobs!!! I've been losing a lot of hair in those little buggers lately (especially the handle push button kind on storm doors (http://www.gruvhardware.com/)). :justy:

ETA:
summergreen 2 whole braids sucked into the Hetty (vacuum cleaner) hose while vacuuming on hands and knees - stupidly I did this again 2 weeks later as well.
Ugh, were your braids injured? That stinks.

[heidi w.]

Everything has happened. I have this one drawer handle on my rollable wood block. The handle is to a drawer under the wood block. Every time I wear my hair down and pass this handle, which is right by the exit of the kitchen (door), a single strand gets caught up by that handle and PUUUULLS. Yeeouch!! Man, I forget every time. But I remember for posting in this thread.

And I have had the rollers of a chair hair caught up event. Twice. Man, did that ever hurt.

I've had my hair caught in my dog leash's roller box...yep, it rolled up inside the box.

Purse straps, car doors, car windows, dog walking on hair and getting snarled up, hair actually snagged on a mole on my neck (man, did that ever hurt). I've stepped on my own hair, jerking my head back suddenly. That's always fun.

One time it got furled around a mole on my neck, and for days this mole hurt. IT took a while before I realized that a single strand had wound its way tighttly around said mole, and a few weeks later, the mole fell off!!! :laugh::shocked:

I've actuallly had it occur twice. Handy way to get rid of moles! A lot less costly.

So, word to the wise: wear it up.
heidi w.

[patienceneeded]

Another one for the car door and a gust of wind. Surprised the heck out of me! I wasn't aware that my hair had gotten long enough to be caught in car doors!

[Savahead]

When homeowners don't trim their trees back far enough and high enough from the sidewalk they end up being major hair hazards on windy days.

[thelambscottage]

I braid my hair every night when I go to bed, but for some reason in the middle of the night (in his sleep) my husband decided he wanted to run his fingers through my hair, only it was the hair at the top of my braid, so he was literally pulling it out! I said "ouch, you're pulling my hair" and he like mumbled, "oh, I'm sorry" and then a little while later he did the same thing, and again, a mumbled, half asleep "oh sorry." finally, I had to sleep on my back just to keep him from running his fingers through my hair. It sounds a little bit funny now that I'm typing it, but at the time, the feeling/sound of hair being ripped was not fun!

[rosaacicularis]

I have a mini travel hair dryer that I leave at my boyfriend's house. One day I was using it and out of nowhere, the back of the hair dryer started EATING my hair. After a couple sobs and realizing the only way I was going to get out of that one was to cut it out... that thing went immediately in the trash can. A blessing in disguise.

I've had that happen. It's scary when your hair is getting sucked into a whirling vortex of doom! Ugh, blowdriers are awful.

[Amber_Maiden]

Door hinges... :(

[spidermom]

Painful experiences; good stories.

Then there was the day I squatted down in the kitchen to play with my new puppy and didn't know until I stood up that about 8 hairs were caught on the cabinet hinge. Yow; pulled them out!

And another day I was breezing through the house and was stopped short by a few hairs having floated over to get stuck in that space between the back of the light switch cover and the wall. At least I didn't yank them out!

[princessp]

One time it got furled around a mole on my neck, and for days this mole hurt. IT took a while before I realized that a single strand had wound its way tighttly around said mole, and a few weeks later, the mole fell off!!!

I've actuallly had it occur twice. Handy way to get rid of moles! A lot less costly.

So, word to the wise: wear it up.
heidi w
Omg, this one is actually a bit funny! :D

[summergreen]

Ugh, were your braids injured? That stinks.[/quote]


They seemed ok - it was a horrible, panic stricken moment when i saw them disappearing up the hose though!

[Of the Fae]

My hair gets stuck in buttons of coats lately :S
It takes forever to carefully peel them out hair by hair- and it usually happens when I'm just about to leave!
Plus sometimes when I ride my bike I'm blinded by my own hair and it gets swooshed in my mouth. Traffic hazard.
I saw that one posted earlier by someone else too btw, glad to hear I'm not the only one :p

[pepperminttea]

Shoelaces! I had bent down to tie them, and hadn't noticed a few of my sneaky finer strands falling forward, and getting knotted in the laces as I tied them. Suffice to say I noticed when I straightened up again. Ow...

[whitedove]

We have hand rails in our shower. I use them to steady myself, catch hair at same time and then either stand or turn.

Car windows are the worst, they always catch my whispy bits that cant reach the back of my head.

[papera]

Haha, great stories, when even a bit painful!

One night I was in a club with my hair down. I walked past a guy who was wearing a shirt and my hair got stuck in his shirt bottoms!! :bigeyes:
Luckily he didn't just ran off and I could stop him and get my hair strands out of his shirt bottoms ... boy, did he look flabbergasted :p

Another time the cat of my friend though my braid was fun to play with ... and I was very fast to find an alternative toy for her!

[gthlvrmx]

Cigarettes are a hazard i think, someone threw one on my head randomly at walmart! (why is it ALWAYS walmart and hair?!) That could've lit my hair on fire if the lighted part hit my hair.
That or the lighter can catch your hair on fire O.O

[Finnenna]

Car door and inhalation. NOT FUN.

[jeanniet]

2 whole braids sucked into the Hetty (vacuum cleaner) hose while vacuuming on hands and knees - stupidly I did this again 2 weeks later as well.
I've done this, although at least it was before I was actively growing my hair and so less of a calamity than it might have been.

We have a wire dog crate that we put one of the litter boxes in (to keep the dog out) and I just can't seem to remember that wire hinges + dangling hair = ouch.

[Of the Fae]

I have this shoulderbag that has a string made of sort of braided metal, and every single time I wear it with my hair down it eats up my hair and breaks is off :(

[ratgirldjh]

Mostly my ratties trying to make nests in my hair. I used to let them do this (lol) when they would just climb under it and sleep - but the rattie girls I have now like to dig around on my head and chew on my scalp (grooming me i guess :D) but it HURTS!!! And then I have to slowly unwrap the rattie girl and try and remove her from her 'nest' in my hair without her grabbing on and I always get scratched!!! It seems to be worse even with shoulder length hair for some reason than it was when my hair was longer!!!

[Nedertane]

Well, one time my hair dryer caught on fire in the back. I'm quite lucky to have escaped without any singed ends!

[Zesty]

Shortly before I started daily bunning, I was in DBF's car with the windows down when he started yelling at me to get my hair out of his face. Oops. Never considered that my hair would get to the point that it was inhibiting other people's vision....

[Zindell]

Mostly my ratties trying to make nests in my hair. I used to let them do this (lol) when they would just climb under it and sleep - but the rattie girls I have now like to dig around on my head and chew on my scalp (grooming me i guess :D) but it HURTS!!! And then I have to slowly unwrap the rattie girl and try and remove her from her 'nest' in my hair without her grabbing on and I always get scratched!!! It seems to be worse even with shoulder length hair for some reason than it was when my hair was longer!!!

Naw, that is cute :D

[Kina]

trying to make sure the nozzle from the little motorized thingie to the air bed was well attached, didn't notice my hair being sucked into the motor....

DBF told me I had to cut it off and looked at me dumbfounded as I untangled it from the motor strand by strand...

[RapunzelKat]

I was leaning into the closet to get something, and somehow got a big chunk of scalp hair got entangled in a clothes hanger. There was something on the hanger and I wasn't able to lift it without yanking my hair, so I had to reach around my head and blindly extricate myself :D Funniest part is, my hair was braided! I thought I was going to have to undo the braid, but was eventually able to just slip my hair loose without any breakage.

Another time, I was lying on the bed and my kitty snuck up behind and started chewing my braid! I shooed her away, and didn't think much of it until I unbraided my hair and a little chunk of hair (about 10 2" strands) fell right out! :bigeyes: Good thing she only got hold of my braid tassel!

[Becky9679]

A few months ago I hit my head on a wooden doorframe and was horrified when I stood back up to see a couple of hairs caught in the grain. I've also done the hair inhalation thing a few times and had someone walking behind me trying to throw gum in my hair (you may expect this sort of thing in school but not as an adult from another adult. Still not as bad as a longhaired friend of mine who had lit cigarettes thrown at her hair).

A couple of others that didn't happen to me and and are rather scary - I work at a solicitors office and one of our personal injury cases involved a girl of about 11 who'd been on a teacup ride at the fair. Her hair had got caught on the pole in the middle of the teacup and she wasn't able to yell to the man who was operating the ride to make it stop and ended up with a large section of her hair being torn out at the roots along with some of her scalp. She had a large bald patch for about 8 months and the doctors weren't sure whether it would grow back at all (luckily it did).

Another incident was one I saw on a TV documentary - teenage girl with very long hair in a jacuzzi with some friends. Her hair got sucked into the filter at the bottom of the tub and she nearly drowned.

[Nightshade]

I was sitting at my desk and chucked my braid over the back of it. Tsavo:

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/picture.php?albumid=4506&pictureid=72190

Jumped up and grabbed my braid and managed to really snag his claws up in it. I was yelling as I had an 18 pound moose of a cat hanging off my braid and no way to get to him, and he was thrashing and trying to get away.

DH came and saved us both :lol:

[Pecheresse]

A layer of my hair got stuck in the epilator. I had to cut a few inches. :/

[AspenSong]

My glasses are one! My hair strands are so fine, any hair near my glasses gets snagged and caught in the hinges of my frames. Also, if a strand blows behind them somehow, if my plastic frames shift ever so much, the hair gets wedged between the frames and the lenses where they fit together.

My cats. Oh heavens....I understand if I'm laying down or something and they can get to it, but I'm not super tall, so my hair being at about hip now is long enough they'll run and jump on you and sink claws into your beeehind trying to bat at the hair. lol

My bra is a horrible one, it eats my hair if it gets near it. lol.

My camera. You would not believe how knotted a few strands of hair can get in camera gear....trapped in the fixings to attach the neckstrap...around the lens...etc.

[Becky9679]

My glasses are one! My hair strands are so fine, any hair near my glasses gets snagged and caught in the hinges of my frames. Also, if a strand blows behind them somehow, if my plastic frames shift ever so much, the hair gets wedged between the frames and the lenses where they fit together.


Ooh, I forgot that one! Without fail my hair always gets caught in my glasses if I happen to be wearing them. It's a good thing I use contacts most of the time :p

[Khiwanean]

I never thought I'd have to worry about kneeling on my own hair until it happened while I was trying to fish a cat out from under a bed.

I've also vacuumed up my own hair with the upholstry attachment - that has a beater brush. I was able to extract my hair once I turned it off. Who knows how much damage that caused. Lesson learned: always wear your hair up while cleaning.

[Lady Neeva]

The horrible notation of picking long strands from the ground. And the fact my hair gets caught in backs of plastic chairs. :eek:

[bumblebums]

A gal I know had her hair catch on fire from a table candle at a bar. The funniest part was that she kept wanting to show the burnt part of her hair to people but couldn't find it because she has so much hair--it precedes her when she walks into a room.

I don't have any stories of my own because I read this (http://www.prismnet.com/~cortese/hair/routine.html#safety) early on and it put the fear of god in me. My hair is always up.

[georgia_peach]

My glasses are one! My hair strands are so fine, any hair near my glasses gets snagged and caught in the hinges of my frames. Also, if a strand blows behind them somehow, if my plastic frames shift ever so much, the hair gets wedged between the frames and the lenses where they fit together.

My cats. Oh heavens....I understand if I'm laying down or something and they can get to it, but I'm not super tall, so my hair being at about hip now is long enough they'll run and jump on you and sink claws into your beeehind trying to bat at the hair. lol

My bra is a horrible one, it eats my hair if it gets near it. lol.

My camera. You would not believe how knotted a few strands of hair can get in camera gear....trapped in the fixings to attach the neckstrap...around the lens...etc.


Ooh, I forgot that one! Without fail my hair always gets caught in my glasses if I happen to be wearing them. It's a good thing I use contacts most of the time :p

Aargh!! This is my issue, too.:mad:

[halfbroke]

Yesterday I was cooking and suddenly smelled burning hair. And I look down to see that my hair got singed by the stove flame. :( I was not happy, I had to cut that part off.

[Savahead]

One night I was in a club with my hair down. I walked past a guy who was wearing a shirt and my hair got stuck in his shirt bottoms!! :bigeyes:
Luckily he didn't just ran off and I could stop him and get my hair strands out of his shirt bottoms ... boy, did he look flabbergasted :p


I had something similar to this once. In a tightly crowded bar a girl was squeezing behind me and a few strands of my hair got caught in her oversized dangling earings. I don't think she noticed because she just kept walking which caused the hairs to snap.

[speshe]

Definitely my glasses! Also, hubby's watchband after he had his arm around my shoulders!

[EdG]

So there I was, laying on my back on the massage table, my hair spilling over the edge, the massage therapist sitting on a rolly stool working the knots out of my neck, when ow! ow! ow! She rolled the stool onto my hair!

What happened to you?I have banished all wheeled furniture from my house. :o
Ed

[Johanna]

-It velcro's to my husbands face stubble
-The refrigerator door keeps eating it as I'm closing the door.
-If I lean over, my braid swings down and lands in everything. Yesterday it was the kitty litter tray.
-Other people lean on it.
-You can accidently flick people in the face if you flick your hair over your shoulder.
-Having to undo an intricate updo because 1 single hair is pulling somewhere. Maddening!
-Leaning over with your hair loose and being blinded!

[Diamond.Eyes]

Closed in car door, having it get trapped underneath my back when laying down so I can't move my neck, having it get tangled up in the mechanism that retracts seat belts. :/

[FrozenBritannia]

My glasses. I have the ones with the magnetic sun shades, and every time I push them up on my head it gets snarled beyond belief.

Other than that and the seatbelt, I have been pretty lucky.

Oh, and lip gloss. I hardly wear lip gloss now since my hair sticks to it. Blah.

[Vanilla]

I get my hair caught in my engagement ring all the time. I hadn't realized how many times I run my hand through my hair in a day until it kept getting caught in my ring.

[FrozenBritannia]

Oh, I forgot about this!

Getting it caught in my boys suzy. (thats a dum-dum, pacifier, or soother in other words.) even worse was pulling shed hairs out from around it. I have to think my kids probably ate some hair at some point, though I was always checking the darn things and boiling them. Lol.

[LornaDoone]

I was walking down a crowded street and passed a man going the opposite direction. My braid got caught on the pen in his shirt pocket. Neither one of us noticed until my head was pulled backwards while my feet were still going forwards!

[Cirafly24]

Back when my hair was between BSL and WL, I was in the mosh pit at a concert. I was right up near the stage, and people were going nuts trying to push past me to get in front. One girl pushed extremely close to me and then started jumping up and down when the band came out. My hair got caught in her eyebrow ring. Needless to say, it was very painful for both of us, and my friend had to disentangle us.

I never wore my hair down to a concert again :o

[cwarren]

Cell Phone
Car Window
Car Door

And if my hair isn't secured properly, I'll get a mouth full whenever I eat something :P

[Kelikea]

1. My dog steps on my hair, or lays right on it, when I do crunches. I yell, "Ow! Ow! HB, come get the dog off my hair!"
2. The little metal rivets or bolts on plastic chair at school. My hair gets wrapped around those things. I go to get up, and --rip!
3. You give someone a hug and as you back away, your hair remains under their arm. What do you say? "Oh, excuse me, but may I get my hair back?"

[Lici1209]

Women in shows/movies always have their hair down when they are being intimate or just snuggling...when I try to do that my hair is being sat on or something. And my hair isn't even that long! I didn't think about it until it happened >.<

[jacqueline101]

I've burnt my fringe when I've lit my cigarette.

[Kat]

2 whole braids sucked into the Hetty (vacuum cleaner) hose while vacuuming on hands and knees - stupidly I did this again 2 weeks later as well.

BTDT...



Getting into the car quickly on a windy day, I closed the car door on my hair.
(my hair was at the top of the door, I'm only apl)

Yes, this too....


Stepping on my hair (usually when it's loose)-- bend or crouch down, move foot, it ends up on hair. Try to straighten up, head jerks. OW.


My partner sleeping on my hair. I wear it in a braid and usually I pull it up over my head, but if I move around it'll sometimes trail across the bed when I'm facing the outside.

Worst was the time he was on it close to the top. I couldn't move my head at all, so I couldn't turn over to wake him up. And I couldn't get him to wake up. Picture me elbowing him as hard as I could to try to get him to wake up and move... finally after about a minute of me jabbing my elbow HARD into whatever part of him it manages to contact and me saying "hon. HON wake up, you're on my hair," he woke up enough for me to get him to move.


Sitting next to my mom on her couch: "Hang on, stand up a sec; you're sitting on my hair."


I've also whacked him (and I think other people) with my hair when flipping a braid back over my shoulder. (If I flip it up in just the right way, I hear the end snap like the crack of a whip!)


We have working dogs at work, and sometimes they think the ends of my braids are something to chew on. Um, no.


I know I've gotten stupid and amusing stuff caught in my hair, but I can't for the life of me think of examples right now.

[beautifulending]

I was in a play and for my roll I had to have my hair down and at the end of the last scene me and a everyone else had to fall down on a SMALL stage and a guy about 220Lbs FELL on my hair hard. I couldn't move at all and he didn't know why I was freaking out.

[Becky9679]

I've remembered another one - a friend and I were stood next to each other at a concert one time, we were both headbanging and I kept getting my hair caught in the big chunky rings he was wearing! I don't tend to wear my hair down to gigs anymore either.

[MaryMarx]

I was walking down a crowded street and passed a man going the opposite direction. My braid got caught on the pen in his shirt pocket. Neither one of us noticed until my head was pulled backwards while my feet were still going forwards!

Made me smile. Although I guess it wasn't fun at the time. :)

[ylime]

i used to wear a necklace that would always get tangled in my hair on my nape.
i'd wake up and have to gently remove it, or if it was too tightly coiled... yank it out OUCH!!

[MonaLisa]

Nothing too special here, just necklaces until I gave up on them..
And also - when I just pass by a hanging coat, it almost always gets stuck around the buttons and pulls me back, painfully...arghh!!!

[Firefly]

Cats, glasses, seatbelt mechanisms... yep! And also, one time when I was cleaning the bathroom my braid almost ended up in the toilet-- I caught it right at the last minute. Now I clean with my hair in a bun.

[Changling]

Before I went short, I had a lot of hair incidents. More than once I felt the razor claws of a cat sinking into my back (arm, thigh, belly...) because she was trying to catch the end of my hair v__v I used to get it caught in both parts of the seat belt (the in-part and the out-part), in zippers, around buttons, in necklaces, around rings, around my backpack straps....is it crazy that I want long hair again?


...


Meh. If I don't like it, I can always get it cut XD

[Fipps]

The wind caught my hair as I got into the car, and I didn't know it was stuck in the door until I was on the freeway.

[jasper]

I never expected hair long enough that my braid tassel reaches down to the stovetop while I am standing there trying to cook. Once my braid tassel was actually sitting on a front burner while I was attempting to light a back burner- and I used the wrong knob and singed my hair.

[lunalocks]

DD used to hang onto my braid when she was little and in a pack on my back. Once she fell asleep while tightly clutching my braid pretty far up. I didn't want to wake her up, but had my head bent to the side for a while and ended up with a crook in my neck.

These days I often get tangled in her earrings when I hug her. It's worth it.

[DarkAlice]

Getting into the car quickly on a windy day, I closed the car door on my hair.
(my hair was at the top of the door, I'm only apl)

Not to insult you but imagining that made me laugh

[Dragon Faery]

The plastic chairs in college, when my hair was WL. I left a few hairs in every classroom. Ouch!

[PraiseCheeses]

Flypaper. :( Eeeuurrrgh!

I sleepily walked to the window to open the blinds early one sunny morning, and realized I was stuck by my wispies. Thank goodness I sleep with my hair in a braid and hadn't taken it out yet.

[Seeshami]

I love the days when I am stupid and zip it in my coat or jacket. Now that's funny.

I also have gotten caught on displays at stores, not so funny because people always think your up to something and I can't help it that the naughty mess enjoys price tag snaggage.

[ratgirldjh]

Shortly before I started daily bunning, I was in DBF's car with the windows down when he started yelling at me to get my hair out of his face. Oops. Never considered that my hair would get to the point that it was inhibiting other people's vision....

I have had this happen when I had longer hair! My bf was like ouch ouch ouch! Stop hitting me with your hair!!! And I thought I had a hold of my hair!!!

[woolyleprechaun]

I love the days when I am stupid and zip it in my coat or jacket. Now that's funny.

I also have gotten caught on displays at stores, not so funny because people always think your up to something and I can't help it that the naughty mess enjoys price tag snaggage.
Its almost like its trying to shoplift or something.....I can wait till my hair develops its own evil personality and turns to a life of crime. (that sounds too much like a dream I had the other night :))

[3azza]

One hair strand managed to sneak out of the hair clip and help with the hamster dissection, with all the blood and fluids, yucks.

[Fadedbluedreams]

I work in a retail clothing store. When my hair was longer (trying to grow it back now), I would regularly get my hair caught on the "4-way" clothing fixtures. Or when my hubby hugs me, my hair can get tangled in the hinges of his glasses. I think it's a murphy's law thing: The more you care about your hair, the more random bad stuff happens to it :)

[GRU]

Car door, car window, car sunroof.

Kitchen cupboard/drawer handles. The worst of those is the top drawer after I've bent over to get something out of the bottom drawer -- my hair wraps around the handle and I'm upside down and it's behind me and I can't see how to get loose!

My strangest is probably the big plant in a hotel lobby.... started walking away after registering at the front desk, got a few feet away, and then realized I was STUCK. I swear fairies were involved in that one.... no other excuse for how my hair tied itself to all those stems and leaves!

[spidermom]

Evil hair fairies!

[Seeshami]

Its almost like its trying to shoplift or something.....I can wait till my hair develops its own evil personality and turns to a life of crime. (that sounds too much like a dream I had the other night :))


The naughty mess is more malicious then he is just plain evil. He enjoys causing chaos and pain more the thieving. And if you really want poorly behaved hair I will happily switch you!

[Miasen]

I've had long hair for most of my life, but I can't seem to remember many times it got stuck in anything. A few necklaces that didn't like the nape hairs, and an industrial piercing that really tangles up in my hair sometimes. But then I just unscrew the ball and it's easy to untangle. :p

Guess I've been lucky so far!

[Freckled.Thing]

The past few minutes have not been fun. I'm flying home for spring break so I'm in an airport and I have my hair in an English braid for simplicity's sake. I didn't get much sleep last night so I was taking a nap on the airport chairs. When I woke up a large part of the tassel was stuck in the chair! I couldn't move my head more the a foot away from the back of the chair. In the end I just had to bite the bullet and pull it out while doing as little damage as possible. It feels like a lot of damage but it's all very close to the ends, so hopefully it's nothing a little S&D can't fix. Hopefully it hasn't messed up my hemline too much. :(

[elthia]

Stethoscopes, I borrowed one from a coworker after mine disappeared, hers had a metal clip, I threw it off in a hurry, and ripped out a chunk of hair by the roots. It was an emergency, and I didn't feel it till later when she showed me the clump of hair. I still have a nice patch of hair at my nape that is about 2 inches shorter than the rest of my hair, and until recently it refused to stay in updos.


I was cleaning an ornate mirror in my living room, and got my hair caught in the scrollwork on the side, DH had to rescue me as I was standing on a chair.

Many years ago, when my hair was at waist length, my husband brought a baby rabbit in the house, it tried to nest in my hair as I laid on the floor, and got tangled pretty badly, the more we tried to get it loose, the more it kicked. Finally, I just had to lay still, till the poor thing settled down. Of course it pooped in my hair. DH thought it was hilarious.

[annamoonfairy]

The seat belt grabbed my hair when i took it off - ouch

[pepperminttea]

For those who have glasses trouble: I don't know of a good solution for the hinges, but for those with an issue where the ear-rests meet the arms of the glasses, this thread (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=41430) (specifically page three) may interest you. :)

[Proximity]

I have a cardigan with buttons at the wrist band and have got my hair wrapped around one of them a few times. The worst time was when I was driving and put up my hand to run my fingers through my hair and *yank* realised I had my hair wrapped around the button. Moment of panic ensued while I wondered what was worse... pulling some hair out or crashing the car! Anyway fortunately it didn't come to that choice, I just drove carefully with my right hand caught near my head until the next traffic lights where I had a minute to untangle myself. Phew

[Littlewing13]

Im just at APL. When im in the shower I put conditioner right through first, then while that sinks in I throw my hair over one shoulder & wash the rest of me. The other day I was shaving armpits & I very nearly got my hair! Thats going to be an adjustment lol

[Covet]

That sounds incredibly painful. It does make a good story though... "remember the time you almost scalped me?" :D

Haha I don't think he would even remember it to be honest! I find myself thinking of it every now and then and I really want to get back on that coffee table :cheese:

[silverstars]

Badminton rackets....my hair was in a braid, but I must have had the racket too near my head. I swung it and heard a ripping sound. I undid the braid later and a small chunk floated away. I have a small section that's shorter than the rest of my hair...

This happened to a friend of mine. We were getting her horse ready to ship to a horse show by putting shipping wraps on the horse's legs. I was wrapping a front leg and my friend was wrapping a back leg. Our mothers and another friend of ours were doing other things in the immediate vicinity. All of a sudden, we hear a horrified yelp. The horse had pooped on my friend's head. It was funny, but traumatizing. We took my friend to a sink so we could help her wash her hair. She has long blonde hair. Luckily there was shampoo that we use for the horses nearby. We were washing her hair and trying not to fall over laughing. My friend was mildly amused as well by this point. Beware of pooping horses!

[Melanie Marie]

Before LHC I used to sleep with my hair loose (it was probably TB length then), and sometimes while climbing into bed I would put my knee on my hair that had fallen in front of me. It never really hurt too much, but the infamous tug was definitely surprising!

Other than that, I've never lived any horror stories like some of you are telling!!! I'm actually super terrified now!:couch:

[lapushka]

This happened to a friend of mine. We were getting her horse ready to ship to a horse show by putting shipping wraps on the horse's legs. I was wrapping a front leg and my friend was wrapping a back leg. Our mothers and another friend of ours were doing other things in the immediate vicinity. All of a sudden, we hear a horrified yelp. The horse had pooped on my friend's head. It was funny, but traumatizing. We took my friend to a sink so we could help her wash her hair. She has long blonde hair. Luckily there was shampoo that we use for the horses nearby. We were washing her hair and trying not to fall over laughing. My friend was mildly amused as well by this point. Beware of pooping horses!

Oh my gosh... :lol:

[Covet]

All of a sudden, we hear a horrified yelp. The horse had pooped on my friend's head.

Totally saw that coming! :eek:

[Littlewing13]

This happened to a friend of mine. We were getting her horse ready to ship to a horse show by putting shipping wraps on the horse's legs. I was wrapping a front leg and my friend was wrapping a back leg. Our mothers and another friend of ours were doing other things in the immediate vicinity. All of a sudden, we hear a horrified yelp. The horse had pooped on my friend's head. It was funny, but traumatizing. We took my friend to a sink so we could help her wash her hair. She has long blonde hair. Luckily there was shampoo that we use for the horses nearby. We were washing her hair and trying not to fall over laughing. My friend was mildly amused as well by this point. Beware of pooping horses!

I would have just died! Its bad enough when its a bird that poops! So embarassing

[Anywhere]

Cats.

I draped my hair over the back of my couch, when suddenly, my 10 pound cat jumped up and was basically hanging on my hair with her claws (claws partially in the couch, but ow did it hurt).

[Pinkster8]

Im just at APL. When im in the shower I put conditioner right through first, then while that sinks in I throw my hair over one shoulder & wash the rest of me. The other day I was shaving armpits & I very nearly got my hair! Thats going to be an adjustment lol

Haha! I have the same problem! I'm always afraid I'll catch a chunk and seriously mess up my ends :(

[constancev18]

I'm seriously going to have to give up earrings. Even those with smooth edges as I just snatched out 2 long strands of hair when removing them. Ugh.

[noelgirl]

Not too long ago I was leaning against the counter at work, when a coworker said something funny, so I threw my head back to laugh. As I composed myself, I felt a tug, and realized that my hair had gotten briefly stuck between the edge of the counter and my buttocks. Didn't think I'd run into that problem at this length! Of course, my getting stuck provided another laugh.

[Johanna]

I just got my braid caught in a shirt with buttons down the back of it. Ouch. Clothing hooks, buttons, beads, whatever is on my clothes I've caught my hair on it :(

[PrincessBob]

I have always had an aesthetic thing for chainmaille and Snuggles bought ma a chainmaille necklace and bracelet set that are really pretty purple and silver rings, but my hair has to be securely up high to wear them and even then I often get hair caught at my nape. Same with my leather and chains bracelet cuffs that I've had for a decade. I love them, but they mostly end up sitting. I also love things with buckles and zippers, in that punk/goth style, but I recently gave up on a zippered Tripp NYC top that I have had for years but never wore because they designed the zipper for torture. At the end of it is the shape of a skull with tiny crossed bones coming from the corners that stick out and get hair tangled around them. It also had three sets of chains draping around the waist at the sides that would eat hair if I wasn't perfectly careful.

As others have said, My hair gets miraculously wrapped around these whether in a braid or down: Drawer-pulls, of course. Door handles. Rivets in chairs at school, on the bus, and the train. Plastic bolts in seat belts. The drain-plug in my bath. The shower pull in my bath (on the tap, the thing that goes up to switch from bath to shower mode). The toilet-handle! Other people's necklaces/earrings/barrettes/rings/buttons/jacket Velcro/zippers/ et cetera ( I am a huggy person, it gets me into trouble).

It gets stuck to the stick-on Visitor's Badge I have to wear at the Elementary school. The handles on my wheelchair, and the wheels. The raise/lower lever on the computer chair at work. stick pins and thumb tacks on the bulletin boards at school. Massage tables on the bolt that holds the face-pillow thingy. The analogue sticks on video-game controllers (yeow!). The Velcro on my Vibram Five Fingers. I honestly love the shoes (they are the only ones my feet want me to wear and subsequently the only shoes I wear!), but I hate the Velcro with a fiery passion. The snaps on hospital bracelets.

Vesu-chan's collar on the pet-tag or the snap. Vesu-chan's claws as he sits/stands/walks on my shoulders (he's trained to be a shoulder cat). It like to get caught and wrapped up behind the "cuff" of the claw cap. Attachment hoops and length adjustment slides on Spaghetti-strap tank-tops (which is practically the only top I wear), and bras. And speaking of that, my hair gets wrapped around/under my bust; individually and collectively. It can happen dry while I'm brushing it, or wet in the shower (yeow!). I do not shave my underarms and have had my hair tangle with my underarm hair in the summertime.


Bed-time with Snuggles can be troublesome. Zippers on pillows. 3 AM: "Snuggles, roll over! You're on my hair. No, the other way!" My hair being left down to dry over night getting caught and tangled in Snuggles' beard (double ouch). Falling asleep with a bun in and waking to a crick in the neck. If we are wanting to be intimate, I have a heck of a time getting my hair contained in such a way as to not get it all caught under one of us.

[Panth]

Face-framing layers + belaying a climber back down the wall who is *almost* too heavy for you. That one was not fun...

[XcaliburGirl]

I was out running today and a bee got stuck in my hair! You'd think that having it up in a ponytail would help but it got caught in the bobby pinned wispy pieces. I'm glad it didn't sting me.

[PixieKitten]

A couple of years ago I gave DBF a neon green studded bracelet for christmas, and every time he wears it, I will get my hair caught in it. Even when I had my pixie cut we'd somehow manage to get my fringe caught in it. I spend ages when he takes it off unwinding all the hairs off it!

[PlainLight]

I wash my hair in the bathtub, and I always have to be careful straightening up, in case I'm kneeling on it! :o The back zipper on my dress is a hazard too.

[Alvrodul]

Velcro, of course - except I was not the one wearing the offending garment. I have nothing with velcro in my wardrobe! :p

[longNred]

Just the other day I had to snip a toy car out of the end of my hair. it somehow caught the wheel of one of those "pull back and go" type cars, got severely wrapped/knotted... as I was helping my 4 yr old clean up the toy area. calmly walked to the kitchen with a car hanging from the bottom of my hair... with my little one laughing... ugh.

[spidermom]

I have a little decoration on the front-side of my eye-glasses, and I have to be sure my hair is back before I put them on, else hairs will get snagged in the decoration.

[Laylah]

Once when I was a middle school, I was using a(n) (evil) round brush to brush my hair and somehow I got it completely matted to my scalp. It was completely stuck and any attempt to remove it resulted in shrieks of pain. I was so upset because I thought I would have to cut off my hair at the scalp (it was a good chunk too). So, at 11 at night I went to my parents, distraught and asked them to help me. My dad spent until 2 or 3 in the morning yanking out each of those little bristles with pliers and then I spent until the next morning combing out the huge, rat sized mat in my hair... I think it was the first all-nighter I ever did!

This next one's not so much about a hair hazard but hazardous hair... I got a haircut! No, not that kind - I was innocently combing my hair when suddenly, a particularly sharp strand cut my hand! I put all this love and care into my hair and what does it do? When I'm not looking, it came around and bit the hand that fed it!

[sonng]

I was sitting at my desk and chucked my braid over the back of it. Tsavo:



Jumped up and grabbed my braid and managed to really snag his claws up in it. I was yelling as I had an 18 pound moose of a cat hanging off my braid and no way to get to him, and he was thrashing and trying to get away.

DH came and saved us both :lol:

>__< ohhh that happened to me but with my dog Scottie! We were playing (very roughly lol) and I had my hair loose and he jumped on me and his paw got caught in my hair. Ohh it was painful and it was a struggle to get free because my hair was so tangled up and my dog was trying in his own way LOL to get free too. I never have my hair loose when I play with him now ^-^

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/song32290/photo-1.jpg :Star:

[annamoonfairy]

When my son was about two we were standing outside and he jumped out of the minivan and swung out like Tarzan using my hair as his rope! OUCH sometimes it hurts being Rapunzel

[Silver Swan]

:D I had a funny little one last night - I was eating some small foiled easter eggs, and folding / scrunching up the foil. As I went to throw the foil in my hand into the bin, it swung back and hung in my hair. I'd managed to wrap up several strands of hair and it took me a couple of minutes to extract them.

[AnimaSola3o4]

I have a mini travel hair dryer that I leave at my boyfriend's house. One day I was using it and out of nowhere, the back of the hair dryer started EATING my hair. After a couple sobs and realizing the only way I was going to get out of that one was to cut it out... that thing went immediately in the trash can. A blessing in disguise.

That's happened to me too. But with a full sized hair dryer... it just sort of started pulling my hair in the back side of it.

Along the same vein of things sucking your hair in, be careful when standing behind a fan of any type. It hasn't happened to me, but I shudder to think of it every time I am walking by a fan.

My hair has eaten it's fair share of toys of course. And car seatbelts LOVE to eat my hair. I don't actually understand it myself. And then there's the classic roll your hair up into your car window....

[AnimaSola3o4]

Once when I was a middle school, I was using a(n) (evil) round brush to brush my hair and somehow I got it completely matted to my scalp. It was completely stuck and any attempt to remove it resulted in shrieks of pain. I was so upset because I thought I would have to cut off my hair at the scalp (it was a good chunk too). So, at 11 at night I went to my parents, distraught and asked them to help me. My dad spent until 2 or 3 in the morning yanking out each of those little bristles with pliers and then I spent until the next morning combing out the huge, rat sized mat in my hair... I think it was the first all-nighter I ever did!


oh god oh god... all i had to read up til was 'round brush' and I suddenly recounted several incidents of round brushes getting stuck in my hair as a child. I learned very quickly that they are so not meant for my hair!!!!

[Diesel Tech]

I'm not sure anybody mentioned this one. As a mechanic, and the new guy at the shop I work at, I tend to spend a good deal of time on a creeper. I keep my hair in a tight pony, with it restrained about every 2-3 inches. While rolling around under trucks, if I forget to tuck it into the back of my shirt, my pony tends to work it's way into or under the wheels of my creeper. It is rather painful when I roll along and my head gets pulled to the ground, or I try to reach up/sit up and find my hair is under a wheel. Not to mention how dirty my hair gets when this happens. I've been lucky and haven't lost more than about a dozen hairs in all the times this has happened.

[IvanaGil]

I was walking in Ross, minding my own business when suddenly my entire body snaps back because apparently my hair has a mind of its own and wound up grabbing onto a random hanger! Lol so embarassing

[luxepiggy]

So there I was, laying on my back on the massage table, my hair spilling over the edge, the massage therapist sitting on a rolly stool working the knots out of my neck, when ow! ow! ow! She rolled the stool onto my hair!

What happened to you?

Alas! If only I had seen this thread sooner ....

My massage therapist stepped on mine last night - twice, because I hadn't yet figured out what had happened the first time when it happened again. Only the second time was WAY worse, because it happened while she was raising the height of the table! Owowowowowow! (>(oo)<)`

[luxepiggy]

When my son was about two we were standing outside and he jumped out of the minivan and swung out like Tarzan using my hair as his rope! OUCH sometimes it hurts being Rapunzel

Eep! Sorry that happened to you, but I hope you don't mind that I did get a bit of a giggle from it. Your son sounds like quite the adventurous child (^(oo)^)`

[09robiha]

Oh my hair gets stuck everywhereeeee. Plastic chairs, in wood grain from my bed... I once got it stuck in the buckle of my heel on a night out when i went to adjust them. Emabarrasingly i also once got it stuck in a girls piercing ermm..in a rather akward place. That wasnt fun for either of us!

[KrystalPixie]

When I was 12 I used to sleep with a fan on my nightstand cause my hair would make me very hot and I rolled over in my sleep and flipped my hair like normal as to not get strangled, and then I heard the fan binding and grinding. I later woke my parents with a fan hanging from my hair and my mom spent atleast an hour trying to save my hair. the fan was trash :)

[Tisiloves]

Managed to pull out a chunk of my UBL hair getting out of bed too quickly when my suit jacket was hanging next to it :(

[luxepiggy]

Button-flap back pocket jeans!

[EdG]

Today, I managed to get a small cut on my thumb while untangling my hair. I didn't notice it at first; then I thought it was a paper cut; and finally I realized it was a "hair cut". :(
Ed

[meishkamooshka]

Almost drowning when you pretend you're a mermaid swimming with your hair down, doing something wrong and ending up suffocating under your mane of hair.....

[dawnrader]

I've had lots of horrible things happen to my hair over the years, like most of you it's been caught in car doors, car windows, the seat belt gets me daily! I've had it munched on several occasions by hairdryers and brushes, in fact that was the deciding factor to go from waist length to 1 inch hair was getting a brush caught in it.... i just couldn't take it any more.

When my hair got to APL i had to start braiding it, i woke up most mornings with my hair under my armpits, the first time it happened i thought i was paralysed!!
Even my sleep braid isn't safe any more, i wake up with my partner rolling on to it and boy does that hurt!

I haven't had anything bad happen to my hair recently, other than it being dunked in the fish tank tonight trying to save some babies.... i wonder if it makes a good hair softener.... lol

I must wash it tomorrow.....

nic
x

[Lightningfury]

Walking the dog my hair got blown up and into this tall bush's limbs. As he tugged on the leash I'm pulling branches down to untangle my hair and trying to pin the rest against my body so it doesn't blow up into the bush as well.

Laying my hair over the back of my chair at work I turned the chair to get up only to realize the chair back had pinned my hair to the wall. I did that hilarious get up get jerked back then before the chair rocked forward to release me into a puddle on the floor. My boss thought it was hilarious.

[Lightningfury]

Button-flap back pocket jeans!

Goodness I hadn't anticipated that one thanks for the heads up.:)

[bo-peep]

Great thread! I've enjoyed reading (and giggling over a few) stories.

I work in IT so I've had a few accidents:

Working on a computer with the case open - got my hair stuck in one of the fans.

Working in a network closet, replacing a UPS that failed. Got my hair sucked into the fan on the switch (didn't get stuck thankfully).

I have to keep it ponytailed when running cable in false ceilings because it gets stuck in the ceiling tile support wires (and the hinges of the ladder I'm standing on).

I brushed my hair after I got back from a job I was on and found something stuck in a few of the end hairs. It turned out to be candle wax! Pretty scary to think about what could have happened.

The one that really makes me nuts is when I kneel on the floor to retrieve pet toys from under the bed. All the dogs follow me to see what I'm doing - and stand on my hair so I can't move! I have BIG dogs.

[bumblebums]

Great thread! I've enjoyed reading (and giggling over a few) stories.

I work in IT so I've had a few accidents:

Working on a computer with the case open - got my hair stuck in one of the fans.

Working in a network closet, replacing a UPS that failed. Got my hair sucked into the fan on the switch (didn't get stuck thankfully).

I have to keep it ponytailed when running cable in false ceilings because it gets stuck in the ceiling tile support wires (and the hinges of the ladder I'm standing on).

I brushed my hair after I got back from a job I was on and found something stuck in a few of the end hairs. It turned out to be candle wax! Pretty scary to think about what could have happened.

The one that really makes me nuts is when I kneel on the floor to retrieve pet toys from under the bed. All the dogs follow me to see what I'm doing - and stand on my hair so I can't move! I have BIG dogs.

That one has happened to me :) It's amazing how much time I spend retrieving pet toys from under furniture. I think the dog tosses them under there to see me on all fours.

[GRU]

I did that hilarious get up get jerked back then before the chair rocked forward to release me into a puddle on the floor. My boss thought it was hilarious.

Well now you have a whole new reason for "why I grow my hair long" -- to provide entertainment for others! :lol:

[Idjit]

My glasses are one! My hair strands are so fine, any hair near my glasses gets snagged and caught in the hinges of my frames. Also, if a strand blows behind them somehow, if my plastic frames shift ever so much, the hair gets wedged between the frames and the lenses where they fit together.

This happens to me all the time. I feel like I'm never going to grow my bangs out. They keep getting broken off!

Also, the car door thing. I really didn't expect to have my APL hair caught in the door (always at the top and then if I don't notice it and sit down too fast it hurts. My SO is used to seing me just up pretty quickly and fling the door open when I get into the car. LOL). I was expecting this fun stuff once I get around waist or so but not NOW!

[arjay.d]

Once, I was still in a sleep braid while brushing my teeth. The braid swung forward just as I spat the tooth paste out. It kept swinging and splattered my face with tooth paste.
My coat has a button on the back for decoration, and when I would put my hair down to warm my neck, my coat would pull when I took it off.
And don't forget the bolts on the back of school chairs. That hurts. But I have a friend who usually sits behind me and unwinds it. But I joined an up-do challenge for the summer, so that shouldn't happen for a while. We'll see.

[Micayla47]

Here's one for the smokers. Had a small bit of cig left and needed both hands to function as I was getting out of my car, so I was holding it in my mouth. Cue gust of wind. Guess it's going to take me a little bit longer to grow out the fringe :-| needless to say I have never let that one happen again.


I have a mini travel hair dryer that I leave at my boyfriend's house. One day I was using it and out of nowhere, the back of the hair dryer started EATING my hair. After a couple sobs and realizing the only way I was going to get out of that one was to cut it out... that thing went immediately in the trash can. A blessing in disguise.
ooohh yikes. this happened to me once too. i had my head flipped over and i was drying underneath so i was really discombobulated when it happened. i'm super careful when (rarely) i use a blowdryer.

[MandyBeth]

Always tangles on my nape piercing! Never snags on the 40+ earrings, but nape is like velcro.

Thankfully only have boy rats so they prefer bra rides to hair nests.

Having Slinkies for cats, they drape on my shoulder and grab at the ends.

Glasses are major snag points, thus I have bangs.

Tangled around headphone wires or phone headsets or in the phone cord.

Getting it stuck in my hand wraps. How I manage that at SL, I have no idea.

Doing a back bend and walking my feet to my hands, stepping on my hair.

Also readjusting my hands in a headstand then going back to a handstan. Ouch!

Hubby getting his hair wrapped on one of my piercings and he didn't notice until he moved. Ow, that killed the mood.

[Johanna]

oOH, I got stuck in a label printer when my hair was waist length and I had it out. Had to do a bit of a yank to get it out.

[CocoBean]

Here's one for the smokers. Had a small bit of cig left and needed both hands to function as I was getting out of my car, so I was holding it in my mouth. Cue gust of wind. Guess it's going to take me a little bit longer to grow out the fringe :-| needless to say I have never let that one happen again.


I have a mini travel hair dryer that I leave at my boyfriend's house. One day I was using it and out of nowhere, the back of the hair dryer started EATING my hair. After a couple sobs and realizing the only way I was going to get out of that one was to cut it out... that thing went immediately in the trash can. A blessing in disguise.
That must have been an old hair dryer? I had the same thing happen to me many many years ago. Scared the heck out of me, and yes, I too had to cut my hair out. I was very careful about using a blow dryer after that. Don't use them at all anymore now.

[MissTulip]

I haven't had this happen yet (knock on wood) but my worst fear is having my hair get caught in the trunk of my car and not having my keys within reach! I can be careless about where I put my keys while I'm moving stuff to and from the car, so I can picture myself bent over with my head stuck by the bumper until a neighbor comes to my rescue lol.