13, here.
Mom’s idea... my dad was crushed.
Which was probably the whole point.
Don’t you just hate that when your parents mess with hair? (Actually, I got the idea of putting a bag over my head from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Sylvester, the cat, was getting beat up by a kangaroo, which Junior, his son, thought was a mouse. Junior was so ashamed, he put a bag over his head.