My first Ignorance encounter with dreads!

Ok, So....I've had my dreads for about five days now, I used wax the day I put them in (I know I know...) and stopped after realising how gunky and gross they make your hair.

Anyyyway, I was shoping at the local health food store today and an eldery lady (well not realy elderly, like 50 maybe...older than me! hah!) Walks past me and says to her friend next to her "Oh my god, look at that dirtbag" :&

Im a very composed person and paid no mind. I have the feeling i'll get a lot more of it to come. Because out of about 30 thousand people in my city, maybe 4 have locks!

Welp thats my story!

-Ryan

 

lol you should frame this experiance
You should've just turned your head towards hear and similed.... Anywho, your 50 (?) and you have dreads? Thats awsome...

 

thats funny.

i usually got compliments from old women. or questions on how to do it to your hair.

only insults were from my grandma.

 

i havnt really gotten that many complaints. I have a surprising amount of older people like from the 40s-50s coming up to me and asking me about them. one lady loved mine and my friends dreads but her son used to have them as well haha. just ignore ignorant people haha. live ur life the way u want to who cares what other people think of you. peace

 

Nah, Im not 50, im 22. The elderly lady was about 50

 

lol wow the only ignorant person i came accross was my dads co-worker. i asked him if i can go in to ask my dad something my mom told me when i got back in the tuck the guy when i went in the building FUCK THEM.

 

I live in a town of 4,000 and I am the only one with locks. At first you might notice a lot of the stares or dirty looks and hear some of the nasty comments, but after awhile...you don't even notice it....at least I don't...unless someone is obvioiusly staring...in which case I usually smile and wave at them...they are immediately embarrassed...it's quite funny.

Don't let it annoy you are deter you from letting your hair go naturally...because everyone has the right to feel the way they do about hair styles, clothing styles, opinions, etc...but that doesn't mean you have to conform to them too.

Happy dreading!

 

I kinda like the stares and comments I get from my non-standard self (dreads, barefoot, weird clothes, things I say). It's like it gives me strengh (I'm weird, I know... ). I like the fact that people are shocked and challenge.


Who knows, maybe some people will come to realize that you're a great guy, even if you have dreads.

As long as you're comfortable with yourself, it's all that matters.

Peace

Myst

 

Hehe, I recently went out and realise just how many heads where turning. Maybe 3 or 5 people out of 30k have dreads here, so we all get looks. And most people (I swear) think we put the most insane things in them. I had a girl ask me today if I put butter and gum in them...All I could do was laugh. I kind of like the looks now, and being able to inform people that they arent stinky rotten grossness of heaps of hair.

Yay!

 

That reminds me :
I was sitting under a street light in the tiny narrow shadow that it casted. I was sitting there reading my book, when i feel this tap (not tap, like something droping on my head). I look up i see this bird on top of the pole. I start freaking out going crazy trying to feel if there is bird shit in my hair. I havent found anything, even when i looked into the mirror when i got home. Nothing... So i dont know if the bird shitted in my hair or something, I'm going to wash them...

 

I've been quite lucky, the majority of people who have commented on my locks have been very positive. However..

I was in a shop recently trying on headbands (I asked the shop girl if I could and she said go ahead) and some girl taps me on the shoulder
"I don't think you should be trying those on"
I presumed she worked there and said I was sorry and didn't realise you couldn't try them on. Then she kept commenting and I realised she was just a snotty customer;
"people like you disgust me, you'll give us all lice, I bet you haven't washed your hair in weeks"
So I inform her that actually I washed in yesterday and have no more chance of having lice than she does in her greasy blonde extensions, I then told the shop girl I originally spoke to that this girl was being rude to me, she asked the girl to leave! The look on her face was priceless.

 

LOL Thats priceless !!! Im in the "omgah ugleh holes loops and fly away everywhere) so im beginning to get people stoping me and telling me your supposed to do things with your dreads, Like wax them twice a day (Keep in mind the people giving me the tips have never had dreads) and to back comb with a fork 5 times a day.....I swear my jaw hurts from grinning so much. I love it!

 

I was in Walmart the other day (in the U.K) Donning my
Tye Dye Bonnaroo t-shirt & my baggy pants (I also have dreads) a middle age man about 50 ish walked by a muttered
"if there was a prize for looking like a complete idiot you'd win it) I was like WTF ???? & just laughed it off I couldn't believe
it at all, I was gonna say something, but thatwould of made me no better, Pft I do realy despise ignorant, close minded people !!!!

 

Today a old lady stared at me in target for a minute straight and im literally serious so i wave and smile like A-Shwa-Child suggested and it was so funny.

 

This story isnt really ignorance... well it started out like with comments like "someone needs a comb", i think that was the only "rude" thing they said. I really dont consider that rude because i do need a comb ...

Anywho I was sitting on the bus with my canvas beg(best begs in the world) on my lap, and i was staring out the window. The bus stoped in the downtown area, and it was one of those change up stops where they change drivers. So I had to wait like 5-8 mins on the bus just stairing out the window (should've contunied reading on the road >.>). Well these 3 black (isnt the right term for them is negro? I always hestitate to use that word... or what is it? if its not that) girls came onto the bus and acting all goofy. When they were grabing there sets, one of them said "Someone needs a comb". Then they resumed there goofy acts, playing there ipods full blast and what not and talking really loud. You know you average modern day teenager. Some time past when one of them asked me if i had dreads, I hestiated for a bit because i still think my hair is a limbo stage, where the dreads need to tighten and the fly aways need to knot up and the ends are strait. I just said yea... Around this time the bus started to go. Which I contunied looking out the window looking for a good place where the bus can stop to minimuze my walking to my home (i was traveling form Wilson summer school, next town over). So they started to ask me questions like what do i do with my hiar. I just gave the most simplistic explantion i can think off, which was "nothing". They asked if i wash my hair, I said "yes" etc etc. Then the girls went into there own chat about the time one of them had dreads in there hair and how one of there moms freaked on her. The same one which had her parents freak on her, asked me if my parents like my hair, which i just replyed with " they hate my hair". Which then she stared to laught. Sometime passed and I started to look out the window more because my stop was coming. Then when i stoped the bus, I was walking out the bus, one of the girls said, "Bye Dread Boy" (or something like that)... Which then i said my good byes, and stepped out. Which then i walked home thinking what to eat... These are the people who like. The ones who ask questions and dont place you in a category right away...
Peace and happy Knottings

 

yeah people assume i havent showered in years or ever washed my hair.. when infact i prolly do the above more than anyone without dreads. . but oh how i smile when someone comes up to me and like 'YOU-HAIR-IS-!!AWESOME!!' or 'YOU ARE SOO COOL, I LOVE YOU HAIR' im just like swish of the hair give a grin and im like 'oh yeah'.

the good comments always out weigh the bad ones though.

 

Word!

 

yea i went to the mall my friends where like "Dan are you a bum now, your hair its like a bums hair" lol I just laughed and they asked when do i wash em "Once a week" i replied and they all laughed like I was dirty.... But yeah they placed me as a dirty person before i walked in the mall talking on aim... I hate people like that...

 

haha insults are just funny.. i love them! haha i was working they other day, dealing with this lady and totaly off topic she says "I don't like your hair at all" i just smiled. .lol then in Mcdonalds one day this girl comes up to me and pulls on my sleeve and goes "wow.. your hair is cooll.. did you invent that?" she was like 4 years old max haha and she was asking me questions and stuff haha it was hillarious!

 

Pshh... my father is always like "Lose ya comb!?" and shit, and I'm just smile and tell him that I love my dreadlocks more than him.









































Just kidding. Some people hate my hair, and some people love it. I just roll with the punches. That's all you can do, really.