No, when I woke up in the morning it just suddenly looked like that.

[kattahj]

There's a bit in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which I really love (okay, there are lots of bits I really love, but never mind that right now), where Ford Prefect contemplates human conversation:

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the

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[settiai]

*nods*

It never ceases to amaze me how many of my coworkers will walk up to me the day after a haircut and ask "did you cut your hair?" Now, if it was just a trim or something, I could understand it. But when I cut me hair? It involves clippers and turning my hair into something just shy of a buzz cut. It's, uh, fairly obvious that, yes, I cut my hair.

[kattahj]

Yeah. Of course, I shouldn't say anything, because I quite often phrase things as questions instead of statements, to milden them or something. ("When they make zombies they pull the brain out through the nose!" "Um, isn't that mummies?")

[therru]

Nice colour!

I once got a crack in one lens in a pair of glasses, and was too poor to have it replaced for some time. I can't remember how many people who told me that I had a cracked lens. Yes, I know, it's not like I don't see it all the bloody time!

[kattahj]

Thank you!

And heh, that reminds me of the interview I read with the mother of twins who had radically different skin tones. She said that once a woman had peered into the pram and exclaimed, "Nämen titta, de har ju olika färg ju!" Because the mother wouldn't have noticed that. :-)

(It also reminds me that I should get my glasses replaced. Meh.)

[kattahj]

Thank you!

[utopian_sky]

Your hair looks great! And yeah, people are strange!

[kattahj]

Thanks!