"You're a right weirdo if you read a book in the hairdressers"... and other bonkers opinions

[BookWormhole]

I'm going to the hairdressers shortly and I'll be taking my book to read while my colour's on, like I always do. I told my friend.

She said I'd be a right weirdo if I read my book while I was in there. She couldn't give a specific reason but was adamant it wasn't the done thing.

She's nuts.

My mother still clings to the belief that you shouldn't do washing on a Sunday. Apparently it "doesn't look good". My mum's an atheist.

My mother also believes that going out in the cold with wet hair will give me (almost instantaneous) pneumonia.

She's nuts.

Tell me about all the bonkers opinions that people in your life hold.

Never trust a dog with orange eyebrows.

I mean that might have come from Terry Pratchett but still

Aparinately its bad luck to point at a rainbow

I think the animals saying works better if reversed. "Don't trust a person if your animals don't like them."

If I see a normally placid dog get it's hackles up at a new person, I certainly reassess the situation.

My DH's family kicked up a bit of a fuss when I left the house with wet hair because I would get ill, in Malaysia where the ambient temperature is the same inside and outside, about 35C.

I thought the thing about green being bad luck was due to the fact that green dye used to contain arsenic, so people who wore green or decorated their home with green wallpaper were more likely to suddenly get very ill/die.

My FiL got very upset when our dcs were babies and liked walking around holding our hands, or cruising holding onto furniture, he was convinced that it would make them bow-legged. I'm pleased to report that this did not happen.

I had a tiny row with dh the other morning as youngest dc had a mild cold but would not put his coat on to walk the 2 minutes to the car. Dh very very worried that this would lead to pneumonia. DC is absolutely fine.

I had similar in Toni and Guy years ago, the hairdresser went "Ooooh, look at you reading a book ". Never went back. Bloody weirdos.

I'm a hairdresser.

I like it when people read books while their hair's developing because it means I have something to chat with them about during the cut (after we've done holidays, TV, family while I'm putting the colour on).

What are you reading?

My mother always said that if I went to bed without taking my mascara off, my eyelashes will fall out.

My MIL thinks you have to turn all the mirrors in the house to the wall when there's lightning and hide in the understairs cupboard