Tell A Brush-Stuck-In-Your-Hair-Day Story. I Dare You.

I'm about to tell an embarrassing story.

A few years ago, pre-pandemic, I was in the bathroom, post-shower, blow-drying my hair.

The day before, my big round brush had fallen apart in my hands and I'd run to Safeway to buy a new one. It was inferior, but whatevs. 

But I SHOULD NOT have been whatevs. Because today that brush GOT STUCK IN MY HAIR.

And you know, I tried to get it out.

And I kept trying.

And I kept trying.

And I was thinking about the coffee date I had in an hour, and how it would be a funny story about why I was late....

I was still thinking that, you know, it would come out pretty soon. 

But I was WRONG.

Last week, I had allowed my 10-year old daughter to shave one side of her head.

Would I need to shave my head?

I didn’t want to shave my head. 

But could I somehow make it work on my client calls? A stylish hat? An asymmetrical look?

Panic.

So I texted my hair stylist, Christiane, who reassured me it would come out.

Then I texted my hair salon manager friend, Denise, who suggested coconut oil. 

Then I called my husband, who was dropping off my daughter at an art class and said, "Are you on your way home? I've got a situation here."

I'd recently had some medical issues and had been forced to gather STOOL SAMPLES at home. 

My daughter, who has somehow already declared her college major as Pre-Med, was keenly interested. But my husband, while tolerant of a truly OUTSTANDING list of annoyances, did not handle feces very well.

So on the other end of the phone, he asked, with significant alarm: "Is this a POOP situation?"  

I assured him it was not. 

He picked me up out front of our house and drove me to one of Denise’s salons.

And he stuck around for awhile, watching with a wide smirk on his face as they passed me from one person to the next, each approach raising my hopes a little further toward salvation.

It took FIVE hair stylists, THREE methods and several pairs of scissors to remove every single bristle of that brush, which eventually came out of my hair. 

I took a Lyft home.

It was just a Brush-Stuck-In-My-Hair kind of day. 

Why tell this story on LinkedIn?

Because we’re all human.

Because we need a laugh.

Because it helps build my BRAVERY.

Because part of my BRAND is VULNERABILITY.

If ya got a story, I'd love to hear it.

#youarebrave #brandmessaging #laugh