Have you ever not wanted to be the centre of attention about something, but when you aren't, are you annoyed?

-- Kymm Zuckert (hedgehog@hedgehog.net), September 22, 2000

Answers

Yeah, last time I cut and dyed my hair, very few people said anything. Hello? Long and blonde, to short and bright red???

-- Mary Ellen (sarcasticah@yahoo.com), September 23, 2000.

When I plucked my eyebrows for the first time I was being all expressive with my husband and he took not one notice of my oh-so-well-designed eyebrowisms!

-- tango (tango@stratos.net), September 26, 2000.

The only surefire way to get commentary on your appearance is to wear a hat or a military garment. A fur coat will generally do it too, but not in a good way. I don't know why people always need to say "Nice hat," or ask you if your peacoat is authentic and where you got it, but they do. Even a simple beret provokes commentary. Other aspects of your comportment, well... When I got my braces off: nothing; all the times I turned my hair some hideous and inadvertent color: nothing; when I wear a skirt so short that it scarcely covers my ass: nothing. Everyone was then too busy looking for people to say "nice hat" to.

I can double the commentary on my wardrobe by wearing my Air Assault cap with the insignia, as it's both a hat *and* military. Actually the watch cap with an 8-ball patch on it that I got at a Mexican flea market gets so many off-the-wall remarks that I don't even like to don it anymore.

-- Kim Rollins (kimrollins@yahoo.com), September 29, 2000.