As far back as I can remember, I have always heard comments from family and even people that I do not know about my hair. Being born a cotton top to now a honey blonde. I believe being a natural blonde I have been dubbed dumb and misjudged. I hate the blonde jokes!!!! Being a natural blonde my entire life, it has been a world of hurtful taunts and ridicules.
             I had the opportunity to become a manager for a new fast food restaurant here in Tyler, Texas. I started at 3:00 AM by waking up and getting the kids to the sitter and then myself to work by 4:30 AM. I was there early to set up for breakfast, cooking and counting registers for front counters. Basically getting everything ready for the 7:00 AM crew. I did this for about four months. I really wanted the job title of Manager. Needless to say the job was given to someone else a male employee. Afterwards I asked my boss why I did not get the job and after probing I was told it was because the owner felt a man was better suited and also because I was blonde. I stood there inn disbelief, unable to speak or breathe. My fault was in being blonde and a woman? The owners wife was blonde also. Did he have the same attitude toward her, that we just were not good enough, smart enough? I often wanted to ask him that but I just let it go as always just another disappointment i would have to endure due to the fact that I am blonde.
             I think you have to take the jokes in stride. Blondes have always stood out in history. Lady Godiva, Princess Diana, Cinderella, and Alice in Wonderland, and of course Marilyn Monroe. We are the image people like. Jokes would not be made if they were not envious of us. We can not be that dumb if we are that loved.
             Intelligence is put to the test by a hair color. Standing in front of the shampoo isle that was also next to the hair dyes, a woman I did not even know came up to me and asked me color I used, I just looked at her and told
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