I confess; I need to dye my hair blue at least for a day to honour a bet I made and lost.
We got a new air-hockey table at work today, and I made the grievous error of boasting about what an astoundingly good air-hockey player I used to be back in the days of yore (i.e. the days of quarter arcades). I really was quite good; and this led me to commit the sin of cockiness, and start bragging about how I was declaring myself the team champion without even having played on the table at all. I did this to several friends over lunch. And one of them was like, "Oh, really?" and challenged me to a match; damn my spider sense failed me there; in retrospect I heard the truth of things in his voice, but wasn't paying attention....
Anyway, me, brimming with my cockiness (this is one of my tragic flaws), felt compelled to up the stakes. I challenged everyone at the table (4 other guys) that I could defeat them all in a row. And when upping the stakes, I tossed out the crazy notion that if I couldn't back my cocky claim, I'd dye my hair the colour of their choice for at least a day. But if I won, all of them would have to do the same for me.
So we head down, and I start with the guy who challenged me. And I lost; in fact, it would not be a stretch to say I got my ass handed to me. And afterwards I'm like, "What the hell? I must be getting old." But the friend who beat me then took the opportunity to let me know that his family owned an air-hockey table when he was growing up, and he played all the time, whenever he wanted, against his brothers and sister. Oops. That's what I get for underestimating my opponent.
So, they were going to go with PINK because they knew I'd hate that, but I begged for clemency on account of the withheld "I grew up with an air hockey table" knowledge, and got away with the much more reasonable color of blue.
NOW I'm trying to decide; should I go with temporary colour and just do it for a day? Or should I go to Fantastic Sam's and get my hair bleached and permanently died blue?
I confess, I'm tempted to go permanent.
Good fortune,
- A day in the life of Icarus...
_________________
Please forgive me if, in the heat of battle, I sometimes forget which side I'm on.