DS has bright ginger hair (he insists on it being called ginger, not red) and I'm fed up of complete strangers commenting on it. The first time it happened he was 2 years old and we were in Edinburgh and a woman came up to him in his pushchair and started to kiss him and saying what sounded like a prayer in arabic. Someone else commented on his hair in the same trip (we were only there for a day!) but I bit my tongue and walked away bemused as to why having red hair was such an oddity. Two weeks ago ds and me were walking down the street when this bloke, who seemed very drunk even though it was midday, stopped him and said "ay up redhead". DS just stood there bemused and I felt like saying "ay up pisshead", but I didn't, and again we walked away. Yesterday a complete stranger in a farmshop commented on his hair and I'm just fed up with complete strangers commenting on something that, to me, seems completely normal, like having a nose. What is the problem with red/ginger/auburn/strawberry hair??
p.s. When people see ds, dp and me together and ask where he got his red hair from (I'm blonde and dp is brunette) I reply dp's redhead brother. People never know what to say to that.