I’m drying my hair, and actually doing that
rolly thing with a brush to make it go into a smooth not quite replica of how
it gets done at the hairdresser’s. This
may not seem much of an event, and d it isn’t, but as my practice until six
months ago was to blast my hair into a fluffy tangle of variable waywardness,
holding the hairdryer in one hand while reading a book in the other hand and
thereby getting in another five minutes of reading , the do-ness of the double
handed dry, is, for me, a big step up the ladder of grooming.
Of course without the distraction and
comfort of literature, the act of hair drying is a little dull and gives me
time to wonder. Specifically about the hairdryer. Is it good enough, and though
I’ve repositioned the nozzle, if my head was a boat, and my hair the sails
(yes, I know a stupid metaphor), and the hairdryer was the wind (corny song
warning), it would be a blustery sirocco, and my boat would be going nowhere
much. As I pondered all this, I was
wondering how I might justify a new Dyson hairdryer, not for me of course, but
for my poor beleaguered hair. I’m thinking I could ask Ceri if there was any
Friends of Dyson Discount Scheme, and at this point I superimposed an image of
a new hairdryer, hovering over my perfectly coiffed hair, but then the
instinctive part of my brain, which apparently is based in my nose, bypassing
the daydreaming part, tells my arms to QUICKLY turn off the hairdryer, which is
smoking, also known as burning. I do.
The hairdryer continues to give off an acrid smoke that seems to be a
precursor to flagrant combustion. In my undies I take it downstairs, place it
in an open space on the slate tiles, where if it does ignite, it will not burn
other things. Dressed I come back and
pick it up by the cord, like a dead rat, and deposit it in the outdoor
bin. Now I really do need a Dyson
hairdryer – for my own safety.
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