A little girl didn't like her hair because her head was full of curls. Every time when her mom combed it, she was crying. "Don't be so squeamish!!!", said her mom then. The girl looked at her mom."I am not squeamish, the comb hurts me, that's all", she said. "Why do I have so many curls, mom?", she asked.
Her mom was a freelancer at a publishing house. She was always busy and in hurry and had not enough time to comb the hair of her daughter carefully enough or even to answer her questions.
The little girl became upset more and more and she was afraid to wake up in the mornings. She developed a strategy to escape from the daily procedure of combing. She pretended to have to go to the bathroom urgently.
She was sitting on the toilet bowl until she heard her mom leaving the house. Despite her young age was she already versed in clairvoyance, at least in terms of her mom's time management. She could predict exactly that her mom never would wait until she would come out of the bathroom.
She left alone with her granny and when her granny asked her to comb her hair, she used a small subterfuge, she told her granny she got combed by her mom. Her granny did not see so well and so she believed the little girl.
With the time became the curls matted and the little girl did not know what to do, she had to solve an almost insurmountable problem: how is it possible to unravel her curls? She used a comb with wide comb teeth but she failed again and again. Thank God, she was a very indefatigable little person and so she didn't throw in the towel. One day she took a scissor while her granny was sitting before the TV.
She went to the bathroom and cut off her hair.
Then she made it wet and how through a miracle she was able to unravel the rest of her curls. From this day on she did comb her hair by herself and she never more felt pain while combing.
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A cute story!
Thanks, ELF-Noor.
@ :) thanks God she didn't cut her hair . However , she inspired u to write a blog :)
Dear Rosemary,
I wanted to participate in Danny's challenge, so I did think about a nice story. Suddenly I remembered my little granddaughter. She was with me on the last weekend. Her mother told me to wash her hair. She has very curly hair and I don't like to hurt her. It took about half an hour to comb her. Her curls are ringlets. In dry condition, they reach until the shoulders but in the wet condition until the butt but in opposite to that girl in my story, she never would cut her hair.
Thank you very much for your corrections, dear Tanya. Your advice is always appreciated.
Roman, I will think about whether I can forgive you..... hahaha ... (I am just joking.) Of course, you get my forgiveness. To err is human.
As I see, Tanya has replied already your question in terms of that idiom: "To throw in the towel"
You can use it when you want to say that someone is giving up doing something.
I did use "she didn't throw in the towel" for: she didn't give up.
And ... thanks for liking my short story and your comment ..... hahaha, even if you called me Tanya... lol !!!
I have curly hair myself . When I was a kid it was a problem to see myself the only one in school with curls . I used to pray to God to straighten it :):):). Now , I feel that it is more beautiful and I accept my self the way I am . Surely combing curly hair hurts a lot . However , Rose I want to know where did u get ur idea from . Was there a girl around u with curly hair like me ??? Thanks for sharing u have opened a door toward my memories :) :) :)
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