Karma is inevitable. It truly is funny how the universe unfolds. Many times I can think of how that ridiculous 5 letter word has impacted my life. As a matter of fact, I could write powder room literature for a living on karma. But one story really makes me laugh every time I think of it…
I believe I was in early high school when I began dating this cute little blond. She was typically ditsy yet attractive. Christian yet high maintenance. Sexy yet prude. Everyone knows one.
Anyways, with my buddies at lunch, we would always get our same 2 to 3 restaurant style tables and have lunch while giving each other hell. When one of the guys began dating someone new, it was always custom for the girl (with her friends) to migrate to our general area. The girlfriends typically sat next to said “significant other” while the guys typically backed up their fellow friend. This girl I was with was generally quiet however she would now and again make small talk/opinions/insults that were relevant to said topic.
Back in this time I was just coming to hate (and still do) going to the barber. I suppose it was around this time that I found it hard to understand the difficulty of cutting hair with one length guard on top, shaving the sides and bleaching the absolute fuck out of it. One way or another, every guy still looked like abnormal douche bags. I guess I had tried cutting my hair for the first time and as usual, absolutely mangled the top of my head.
Nothing looked right. Whatever, I’ll just burn bleach it and none the wiser.
Wrong. The next morning I arrived at school and girlfriend of course, took one look at my head and unleashed the jokes. That woman sunk her teeth in. So naturally I’m self conscience for the rest of the day. You know that feeling? When you think everyone is noting the “terrorist attack” you call a haircut all day but you were unable to do anything about it? That was me up until lunch.
When lunch arrived, of course, girlfriend started making stupid remarks which REALLY pissed me off because she drew attention for my asshole friends. Let the feeding frenzy begin. By this time I’m so angered with her that I avoid her, ignore her, and hurry about the day until I can get home and fix it. I remember looking in the mirror saying to myself, “this isn’t even bad?! Just a little touch up here and there! What a bitch!”
I show up to school the next day with my revamped hairdo expecting to see girlfriend and have her yell at me for not calling her or returning any of her pages.
First period. No sign.
Second period. Not there.
Third Period. Nope.
When lunch came around I finally saw her staring at me from the distance. I figured “lets get this over with…”
As I approached her she didn’t look happy, as assumed.
Then I noticed it.
“HOLY SHIT SHE’S MISSING A WHOLE SECTION OF HAIR!”
I laughed straight in her face. You know the payback laughs? This was it, mixed in a strainer with a 2 shots of “boy it sucks to be you” and a dash of “you totally had it coming”… She just turned and walked away. I would have too though. It was pretty humiliating
Obviously I quit talking to her. What? It wasn’t like we were serious? Besides, we didn’t have much in common… Well, except for the bald spots…
You’re probably curious what happened. Here goes.
Come to find out after school the day before she went to her equestrian or something and the horse went bonkers and ran under a low tree and kind of “swept her” off it’s back. She had to go get stitches in her scalp and doing so they had to shave a part of her head. No wonder she was paging me…