See this picture here???

That’s ME… in.. um… 1971??? And no, that’s not a typo, ok? OK? OK??????
Anyway, I found this on Facebook.
Facebook is obviously filled with ALOT of people who think it’s a REALLY GOOD idea to dig through boxes of pictures in their mother’s basement so that they can start a group JUST FOR their KINDERGARTEN CLASS from 1971!!!!
Ok.. so I’m not really that perturbed about it.. I actually think it’s kinda funny since I SO remember the day this picture was taken!!
My kindergarten class (the epitome of child indoctrination of the cult that is Catholicism) was divided between the morning class and the afternoon class. I was in the afternoon class. Probably because my mother knew even at age 5 that I wasn’t a morning person!
Now.. yknow.. since I was soaking in testosterone stew for 3 months before I born.. I was a major tomboy. Scraped knees.. smudged nose.. always climbing on something and then falling off it.. so when picture day came and my mother insisted on putting me in a DRESS… I was SO not in cooperative mood.
And then…
THEN…
She had the AUDACITY to try and attack me with a brush.
Of all damn things… a brush!
She tried to literally brush my hair.
Can you believe that???
BRUSH.
MY.
HAIR?????
What the HELL was she thinking?
Now.. I know my mother was trying to comes to terms with her daughter being a tomboy and just wouldn’t submit to it so she kept my hair long. Long hair on tomboys is NOT a good thing… so when she literally had to force me on the kitchen chair kicking and screaming to brush the mass of tangled knots that was my hair, I screamed bloody murder.
And when I say screamed, I mean S.C.R.E.A.M.E.D
Screamed SO loud that the neighbor that lived either behind us or next door to us :: I don’t remember :: thought something was REALLY REALLY wrong in our house and called the police.
I believe.. since it was 1971.. this was before the 911-era
Do you know how embarrassing it was for my mother to have the police show up at her door because her tomboy daughter SCREAMED at having her hair brushed for a kindergarten picture in 1971??
I’ll give you a hint… PRETTY FUCKING EMBARRASSING!!
After hearing the situation.. and me so NOT seeing the opportunity to bust my parents for being completely abusive for not allowing their 5 year old tomboy to wear PF Flier sneakers or for buying me a GIRL’S bike instead of a boy’s bike.. the cop gave me a stern lecture and stood there watching while my mother just stuck some stupid pony tails in my head.
Freakin’ Dudley Dooright!
So after enduring the three hour afternoon kindergarten class where EVERYBODY had just something to say about my dress and pony tails, my mother AND FATHER :: I so remember my stomach dropping when I came out of school AND SAW THE CAR! :: picked me up.. took me home.. and did THIS to my hair

Look at that BIG ASS SMILE!!!
Now you tell me I wasn’t happier with kitchen scissor chopped up hair!!