# Teenage Girls **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-girls/57040 "2001-03-07T02:12:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-girls/57040/21 "2001-03-08T01:46:47Z")
So I’m sitting here quietly minding my own business today. Trying to read three books at once (as usual) when the phone rings. I answer and, of course, it’s daughter #2 who states that she is NOT going to her 4th and 5th hour classes today because people are making fun of her new hair color. Me? I just sit there and say, Oh yeah? She says that everyone is calling her Wednesday (an Addams family reference I’m assuming) and she doesn’t like it. I proceed to tell her that, “Look…this was **YOUR** choice! Nobody **made** you dye your hair! You’re gonna have to live with it for a few weeks before I’m going to let you dye it again.” Seems simple, right? HAH! I finally get her to go on to her other classes and told her that she could **try** to wash it out when she gets home, but it won’t work. She says, Yes, it will! Of course, she gets home, and immediately rushes into the shower. Washes her hair twice. No discernible change. Again, I tell her that she is going to have to wait for a few weeks… She then throws a hissy fit as only a 14 year old girl can. Ya know what? I told her she could dye her hair any color she wanted to as long as it was a NORMAL hair color! i.e. NOT blue, green, purple, etc. I thought I was being a VERY good dad! My dad lost it when I got my ear pierced and I was 17! Any advice? TIA ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-girls/57040/22 "2001-03-08T02:31:24Z")
You mean that you DON’T make very potential boyfriend in your house go buy tampons for your daughters? Hell, that’s the test of a worthy male in our house… ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-girls/57040/23 "2001-03-08T02:53:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SpyderA48 \* > \*\*Daughters don’t buy a wreck of a used hot car, spend $1000 on a flashy paint job and another $500 on a stereo system to annoy everyone with 3 blocks with and drive around on mostly bald tires polished with armour all, bad muffler rumbling coolly away and held up by coat hangers, engine getting 15 mpg, leaking oil from the main seal, needing a tune up, but sporting a brand new chrome oil filler cap, chrome valve covers with power windows that you occasionally need to bang on the door to get to work. > \*\* Gee, **Spyder** , I had no idea we knew each other when I was young! ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-girls/57040/24 "2001-03-08T02:56:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by reprise \* > \*\*You mean that you DON’T make very potential boyfriend in your house go buy tampons for your daughters? Hell, that’s the test of a worthy male in our house… \*\* If it would bring me some silence from my kid for awhile then I’d do it. Unfortunately, said silence would probably only last until said boyfriend left and then I’d be up the proverbial creek. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-girls/57040/25 "2001-03-08T03:06:40Z")
don’t mind me. I don’t have children. Just smiling in amusement at those that do… also, scratching my head at how matt\_mcl managed to wander into a thread titled “teenage girls.” ---
**Author:** ![SpinneZiege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@SpinneZiege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpinneZiege)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-girls/57040/26 "2001-03-08T03:35:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cyn \* > \*\*My 14 year old daughter ran up a 900 dollar phone bill. I wish she’d dyed her hair jet-black instead. \*\* I just love it when my mom sees the phone bill. > [@](#): > > “What’s this phone call to Texas about?” > “Why did you make a forty minute call to Edinbough?” > “I see you’ve been talking to your girlfriend a lot lately.” > “You know, I think we’re going to get rid of the phone card and get you a cell phone. It’s cheaper that way.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenage-girls/57040.md?page=1)