to go into "work" with damp hair?

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I help in a primary school 2 days a week - listening to KS1 read.

Sometimes I have been in with wet hair - shower in the morning, very little time, very thick hair and a reluctance to put the hairdryer on all conspire against being beautifully coiffed.

During half-term my very forthright DSIL mentioned how unprofessional it was of a work experience teenager to turn up to the school with damp plated hair. Now she knows I do it as well on occasion the minx and obviously I knew it was a veiled dig at me as well.

So, AIBU to be not fully primped occasionally in this circumstance?

You're volunteering! Of course it's not unprofessional. I'm sure they don't give a flying fig what your hair looks like, they are just grateful for the help.

It is different with a work experience person though I think, as they are their in a work role rather than a voluntary one, IYSWIM.

Better than dry, greasy hair any day! YANBU. Who really cares? Does DSIL expect polished shoes and ironed underwear too?

I very rarely have time to dry my hair I go virtually everywhere with wet hair, unless it's somewhere very posh. As it's very thick, it's often still damp at lunchtime. i'm sure the kids just love having someone to read with - they couldn't care less whether you drip all over them

Oh yus MixedBerries DSIL is very WAGgy groomed.

YANBU! We don't even own a hairdryer. I even went out for a meal in a restaurant with slightly damp hair one night last week, if it makes you feel any better. Your SIL needs to get a life if this is all she has to worry her!

I don't own a hairdryer either and my hair dries quickly enough for me to consider it a waste of my time to use one. 'Unprofessional'? FFS. Hair dries. Your SIL is being a) deliberately provocative and b) daft. I think you need to consistently ignore remarks like this.

Do what you like but my mum says that people die from going out with wet hair. She knows someone whose sister's postman's friend's daughter did...

Ha ha limited. My nan used to say it'd give me rheumatism in my neck. And bare feet around the house will give me "king cough" whatever that is. I'm doing surprisingly well considering.

YANBU

My son's nursery class teacher often has damp hair when I drop him off. as do I She has two small children, and it's really not the end of the world.

I have unruly curly hair and it does not like being blow dried. It also needs to be washed every day to stop me going out looking like Worzel Gummidge. I also go everywhere with it wet but it does dry fairly quickly. But I do think it looks a bit too "wash and go" but I don't really have much choice.

Well, frankly, I think it's like going to work in your pyjamas. If you go to work or anywhere else with hair still damp after being washed, you are going out still 'undressed'. And wet hair smells rather unpleasant.

Did you ask your SIL if she meant to be so rude?

I genuinely think it does give you a cold...does it not then? My bonce is stupidly fine and dries in 4.6 nano-seconds but I always make the kids dry their hair until it's completely dry. Can I stop then?

I often go into work with damp hair. It's not a big deal. At least you are washing it

I'm always the last one to shower before we go out.

I turn up everywhere with wet hair!

In fact when the hairdresser asked how much time I have to spend blowdrying my hair I just told her that the heater in the car does it's best on the drive into work.

Pinot, wet hair doesn't give you a cold. Nor does getting cold or wet. Colds are caused by viruses. (There is some research to suggest that if you are hypothermic then your immunity is lowered and you're more prone to catch a cold virus. This is very very very unlikely from having wet hair though).

I didn't realise there was etiquette about wet hair.

I seem to have missed out on lots of these social niceties. I also didn't know talking about money was rude.

People must really look down on me.

riiiiiggghhht, so your sil has , ooo say an extra hour to dry her hair in the morning? thick hair can take this long to dry with a hairdryer. i think there are better uses of your time and the planets resources.

ooOoo really? Thanks lovey

What about sitting on a cold floor? Does that not give you piles?

Have I been lied to all my life?

Rule, you probably don't have the same sort of hair that reddaisy and I have. I have to wet my hair thoroughly just to comb it, and if I have to leave the house in the morning, of course it's going to still be damp. Well, on the mornings I bother to comb it anyway! If I run out of time or it's wet and windy,or fancy an extra 5 minutes in bed, I put it up and sort it out later. So it'll probably be slightly damp at school pick-up today instead.

So what do you do if you get caught in the rain - keep a hairdrier in the car?!

I think it's a bit funny - in a rainy country like the UK - to think it's 'unprofessional' to have wet hair.

You could always spray yourself with Eau de Clorine and claim you've been doing your 300 laps before 9am?

Ditto, JollySeargeant. Thank goodness for Mumsnet to set us straight!

It doesn't smell unpleasant RuleB - it has Naice stuff put in it. Ner.

My mom used to say I'd get kidney disease for going to sleep with wet hair.

Saying that, I she's just sent me an email saying that "They Say" DSIL if I leave chopped up raw onion in a sliver bowl in every room of the house the Chaotics with never get pneumatic.

Ignore the DSIL in the 3rd para.

And pneumatic = pneumonia. Obvs.

That's a bit of an odd comment from your SIL isn't it. So what if you go to work with wet hair

I'd love to have the type of hair I could do this with. If I did the wash n go thing, when it dried I'd look like the wild woman of borneo!

Oh ffs.