Hair Is the Coworker You Never Notice Until It Ruins the Meeting
(An essay)
How much time do you spend thinking about hair?
You probably fix it most days.
You get it cut a few times a year.
And sometimes you stare a little too long at when someone dyes theirs blue.
Some folks wash it every day. Some go with “dry shampoo” and call it good.
We all know bedhead and hat hair when we see them.
Hair is an interesting thing.
- If you’re eating out and find an unknown stray in your food, your appetite vanishes.
- Samson was toast without it.
- We shave some areas, grow out others, laser it off entirely, and wince in pain when it gets pulled.
And yet, most days — once we run a comb through it and add a little product — we don’t think much about it at all.
Unless it becomes a situation.