[MistyCA]

I don't know if I should weigh in here or not! My daughter Tracy is a very blonde blonde.....naturally. When I spend more time in the sun, my hair is lightened very easily, but it is light brown, I'd say. So is my sister's although she has had her hair lightened for years. And she is incredibly bright...a doctor. My blonde daughter collects blonde jokes because she gets a big kick out of them. She is also very bright. I think most of them are very funny, but there are some that are meant to be degrading and hurtful, just like anything else in the world. But they are jokes. Ignore them. They have no foundation in reality regardless of whether or not someone is truly blonde or a bottle blonde. Brains are not something one gets dependent on their hair color. My dad was born with very blonde hair and had blonde hair as a child. He died with very dark hair. I think he had the same brains the whole time! :))) Love ya, Beep! :)))))

[Jen]

Good night everyone! See ya tomorrow.

Chocolate free for one day!

Jen

[Beep]

ROFL! Now, THAT was funny! I wasn't upset with Linda; it's just that those jokes are so old and tired now. How long have they been around?? Twenty years?? Your daughter has to be younger than that! I'm sure many are new to her. Some were funny, once upon a time. They just got old to me. The whole concept got old.

The problem came when someone I don't even know jumped on me when I was explaining things to Linda and my pals, and I didn't appreciate it one bit. I let him know it, too. He thinks my expressed remorse for responding badly to Linda's post should have extended to him as well, which it did not. He is one who is more concerned with looking "correct" than with being human. IMHO, I consider this person neither.

It wasn't really about someone pulling a blonde joke on me, but it was about someone having no sense of decency. Blonde jokes, to me, are just an idea that has become old and tired. Constant poking and joking about being dumb because one is blonde is irritating. I've put up with it for 20 years, and I'm tired of it. It's that simple. Some people don't know when something ceases to be funny, or never was funny to begin with.

When this person I didn't even know jumped on me, that did it. I snapped. No "hello, how are ya" -- just jumped in and tried to play "cutesie" when it wasn't cute at all, and in fact flew in the face of everything I had said bugged me. In between jumping on me, this person was verbally groping Victoria, and losing all sense of decency and taste. Publicly.

Horrible first impression. Just horrible. So -- that's the thing. It's not so much the blonde jokes. It's the bad manners and "God's gift" attitude. I didn't have the stomach for it. (Oh, and he also told me I should be more like this other person, while wrongly assuming I didn't know her. All this from someone I've never met in my life!)

Okay, sorry, I can't let this mess get to me. It's irrelevant. Gotta let it go. He doesn't seem to be a regular, and tends to only verbally grope Victoria and ignore everyone else. God willing, our paths will rarely or never cross again.

Thanks for listening, Misty!! Love ya, FReeper buddy ol' pal o' mine!!

Beeparoni!