LHC needs a secret handshake or something...

**Cainwen** · November 10th, 2011, 02:20 PM

When I was out doing errands today, at one of the stores the girl who rang me up had beautiful, probably classic length hair (it was in a pony tail and kept moving, so it was hard to gauge). I commented how lovely her hair was, and we commiserated on the fear of going to get it cut.

As I finished my purchase, I really wanted to ask if she was on LHC, since I know there are a few in my area, but of course didn't have the guts.

I know my experience is far from unique around here, and on my way home I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice if LHC people had a secret handshake or codeword or something so we could recognize each other in real life?" or a thread that's the inverse of the Craig's List "missed encounters", kinda 'Accidental Encounters, are you on here?"

Anybody else ever feel like this would be nice to have?

**uptosomeone** · November 10th, 2011, 02:24 PM

I was just thinking this the other day when I was in In N Out burger and saw a lady with hip length wavy silver and brown hair. I wanted to ask her if she was on LHC, but like you didn't have the guts!

**Nightshade** · November 10th, 2011, 02:26 PM

It's worth asking. I ran into a woman in my town with calf-length hair, and though she's not a member here, she does lurk

**MasCat** · November 10th, 2011, 02:31 PM

I have an idea: why don't we wear long hair! (ok, that was.. stupid...)

A little badge with <3 LHC and they'll all think we're into physics!

**moon2dove** · November 10th, 2011, 02:42 PM

Oh, yes. I've seen long haired ladies with beautiful hair and wondered if they are here.

I've also seen long/short haired ladies that SHOULD be here

I was one of them!!!

**Intransigentia** · November 10th, 2011, 03:50 PM

There is a longhair sightings thread somewhere around.

**teal** · November 10th, 2011, 03:53 PM

Ooh, a missed-connections forum would be great! I think with the varied locations having that sort of thing in one thread would get pretty unwieldy and unreadable fairly fast.

**Annibelle** · November 10th, 2011, 03:53 PM

I just thought this the other day! Maybe some sort of special eye movement... not a wink, since that could be misconstrued, but maybe a weird face that COULD just be considered a spasm.

Heck, I dunno, but we should figure something out!

I've been seeing a lot of hair between WL and HL lately IRL.

**Amber_Maiden** · November 10th, 2011, 03:54 PM

Same here. This summer there was a girl with hip hair in my class, and I wanted to ask her... But was worried it would sound weird...

**Yozhik** · November 10th, 2011, 04:19 PM

There's a thread kind of like "missed connections" where people post about other longhairs they see.

If I'm not mistaken, a while ago I heard about people making LHC "business cards." I guess the idea is you keep a few in your wallet and can hand them out to people who you think might want to join -- the cards have LHC's url on them.

Sometimes I also wonder if longhairs around me are part of LHC, but I always chicken out when it comes around to asking them.