Julia Thompson schreef:
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>
> > Julia Thompson schreef:
> >
> > > (And the fastest I was ever in it with the top down was about 157kph. And
> > > if you're going to have someone with long hair in a convertible with the
> > > top down, be sure the hair is contained in some manner, or it can get
> > > painful for the people around the long-haired individual. Plus, the long
> > > hair gets really, really, really tangled.)
> >
> > Ouch I remember the pain. I used to borrow my mother's convertible
> > from time to time. But the tangled hair and the sunburn after a ride
> > are no fun at all. And driving a car like that, dressed like a mummy
> > isn't all that much fun either.
>
> It was cloudy the day we did it, and late enough in the day that I wasn't
> really risking sunburn. It really got to Don that my hair would hit his
> arms like little whips every so often, though. And it was a mess to deal
> with after I got home. So if you have long hair, braid it or ponytail it
> or tuck it into your shirt before you get out on the open highway in an
> open convertible.
Forget it. Braiding or ponytail will only make it more painfull (for you that is),
because all the shorter hairs get tangled into and around the braid or ponytail.
Now _that_ really hurts when you try to get the knots out (I've got really long
hair and a lot of painfull experience with tangles after cabrio rides). Only real
help for a proper convertible trip is a good cap to put all your hair under, or
even better the Grace Kelly style headscarf to cover all of your hair. A fashion
statement currently more associated with Turkish and other moslim females, so not
really that fashionable anymore. Or to put it different, people start to look
funny at you when you are wearing it. Especially when you start to take off the
scarf after you got out of the car. Not that I'd care. :o)
Sonja
