Hello everyone.  I found redhead-world.net through facebook, so I decided to look into it and see what this site was all about.  It seems like it'll be a fun place to hang-out online.

I guess it wouldn't be a true introduction without telling my "redhead stories."

My mother and father are both brunnette, and out of 4 children they had 3 redheads.  Funny story about that...when my older sister was born my mom was so shocked by the hair color and exclaimed "where did the hair come from?!" the nurse jokingly responded, "must be from the mailman."  My mother (still loopy from medicines) sobbed and sobbed to my father promising that my sister was his (there was no concern, my mother is a very faithful woman and my sister looks almost exactly like my father).  My father then turned to the nurse and responded, "Our mailman has red hair."

--She promised she'd never make that joke again, lol!

I've grown up with random people reaching out to touch my hair, or play with it without asking.  Sometimes in shopping lines someone will reach out just to touch it...it's really quite awkward at times, lol.  When I was little I was once terrified by an elderly woman in a nursing home who couldn't speak very well.  She was patting my head really hard and speaking gibberish, and just as I was on the verge of tears a nurse took her away.  The nurse returned explain to me that the elderly woman's daughter was a redhead as well, and I reminded her of her.

What didn't help with the "drive-by hair pullings" was that my mother did not allow me to cut my hair growing-up, so it was extremely long...down to my hips. LOL! When my grandmother developed breast cancer and began to lose her hair was the first time I cut my own hair.  She was so upset at losing her hair that I told her I'd give her mine.  Thankfully she was in remission before I could even get enough hair to make a wig from.

Currently with the "making fun of gingers" craze going around, I am facing some discrimination.  Most people mean it jokingly, but I then point out that if I called someone the "N-word" even in jest, that it would NOT be a laughing matter.  Usually that clears the whole ordeal up.  Sometimes with meanies, though, it just makes the situation worse. 

All I have to say is this: Chuck Norris is a ginger!!!  He'll round-house kick you if you make fun of his hair!