Since my last regular hairdresser used my credit card number to pay for online dating, I have been searching for a new one. I am determined to find one close to home and was excited to see the one right down the street had a screaming deal on highlights and haircut. Surely this was a sign that this would be the one!
When we first started talking openly about adoption, my two friends with adoption experience both warned me that I should prepare myself for some really bizarre comments from both well meaning individuals and those who are just completely oblivious. As I walked into my appointment, I met someone who fell into the latter category.
As we got to the perfunctory question of "Do you have any children?" this was the first time that I answered a stranger with a "Yes, I have one but we are growing our family through adoption." When I responded to the next question of "From where?" with "From BC, through the ministry", the hairdresser actually stopped mid cut, looked at me in the mirror and said "Why in the hell would you do that?" At first I was completely shocked that someone would say that to someone they did not know AND someone they were hoping to acquire as a client. Then, as someone who had just learned that this clearly hard partying hairdresser had three children with three different fathers, I wanted to burst out laughing. It was just too absurd to even acknowledge. I just smiled and said, "Love makes a family." I think she thought I was off my rocker.
The great tragedy here? She gave me a great cut and the highlights were terrific. I am beginning to think it will be easier to adopt children than it will be to find an emotionally stable, affordable and honest stylist... so far, the process of adoption has been faster and less painful.
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