I had some spare time this afternoon and ran to the mall to grab a much asked for costume necessity for the teen. She would like to be the Cheshire Cat this Halloween and informed me MONTHS ago that Hot Topic has perfect cat ears, etc. in a packet. So, off I went. Great music playing, so immediately found needed package and just shopped around a bit.

 I found myself perusing the hair dye section thinking "Well, maybe she'd be interested in dying some hair in purple stripes with her costume! This stuff says it's water based and only lasts thru 5-6 washes, and what teen would say no to some purple stripes for awhile, right?!" In the back of my mind, I was also telling myself that she hadn't asked to have me try dying her hair purple at all as part of this deal and I might just be wasting $13 or so . . . . . until the salesperson stopped by to help me.

 I thought it was ironic. He stood there with his shaved head, quite a few front strands left long, tatoos and guages in his ears and handed me a package of purple hair extensions saying, "You might want to think about just getting these instead of the dye. You can even cut them to the right length."

 Now, obviously, he thought I was shopping for myself and didn't look the purple hair part of it all. I told him that I'd send my daughter in to thank him from stopping her mom dying her hair purple. Really, I need to grow up!