LSLGuy
June 5, 2025, 11:56am
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I have been that guy. When you live with someone long enough you see them as sort of a fixed icon, not a dynamic changing entity. At least until you have reason to interact really closely and actually see them, not just look in their general direction to notice where they are and what they’re doing.
OTOH, here’s a story of a time I noticed her revised haircut almost instantly. And that wasn’t so good either:
Once decades ago I came home from work after ~30 hours awake and a hellish commute home from halfway across the USA during the overnight hours. Drove home in a mental fog arriving just a bit pre-dawn. Stripped in the living room, groggily crawled into bed in the blackout-curtain dark, stuck out my hand towards her sleeping head and encountered a giant mass of Afro-like curls. My wife has voluminous long utterly straight Italian hair; never a curl in sight.
I was sure I’d gotten into the wrong house in my sleep-deprived dazed state and was as good as dead. Then she made those familiar umph mumph noises we all know and love and my heart rate began to recover.
There was a brief fad you might recall from ~1990 for white chix to wear semi-afros. She’d gotten a perm to surprise me. First time in the ~8 years I’d known her and the ~3 years we’d been married she’d ever gotten her hair “done” as opposed to just “cut”.
I was in fact surprised. :eek: