Can't my daughter braid your hair please, it would keep her quiet.

So I have extremely long hair, it reaches my knees when it's down and I take extremely

good care of it and spend a lot of time, energy and money keeping it healthy and in great

condition.

So it's obviously pretty important to me and even without talking to me, it's obvious

that I'm quite protective of it.

Usually, when I leave home, I put it up in a bun or some other protective style, but

today I thought it looked really good so I decided to leave it down for once.

Me and my husband went to a local cafe for breakfast and as we were seated I saw across

from us was a mother and her clearly very excitable young daughter.

This is fine obviously, they're just trying to enjoy their morning like I am and I don't

really pay much attention to them until I heard the girl say to her mother, I think this

is a weird request but don't really expect anything to come of it until I hear the mother

trying to get my attention.

I turn to her and she asked me if her daughter can play with my hair, it'll keep her quiet.

I say no, I'm not comfortable with that.

The girl immediately looks heartbroken and then her mother sighs and just looks tired

and says why not, it's just hair, let her play with it, I give her my reasons, I don't

like people touching me, I don't let people touch my hair and there's a pandemic going

on, I'd rather not get close to strangers unless I absolutely have to.

My husband even chimes in with, she doesn't even like me touching her hair very often,

which is a lie.

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