My husband and I both have very dark hair, and as you’ve seen, our daughter has brilliant red locks. For some reason, the following visible equation has always been a difficult concept for many:
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Some of you with twins have posted about all of the insane things you get asked, and I thought I should share with you some of the crazy things I get asked as a brunette with a redheaded daughter.
One question we usually get asked is, “how did she get red hair?” And well, obviously, it just grew right out of her head. She got it the same way that all of the rest of us got our hair. It just sprung right out. Granted it was about two years before she got hair, but it grew just like anyone elses. I’m not sure if they want me to explain the genetics of it or what?
Next, we are generally questions about red hair in our families. And yes, we both have several redheaded relatives.
Then, some jokester always throws in the redheaded milk/mailman joke. Truth be told, our mail person really does have red hair. But she’s a a lady, and not a gentleman. So unless my husband was rendez-vousing with her and somehow managed to secretly implant the resulting zygote into my uterus–then no, that isn’t how it happened.
The worst encounter like this of all of them is when some wise guy looks Adam and says, “you sure she’s yours?” And the proceeds to wink in the most obnoxiously way possible. ugh. The wink is way creepier than the joking implication of her paternity.
(Winkers gross me out, which is another post entirely.)
Finally, the best answer to the posed question is the one Allie gives people. When people ask her where she got her red hair, she answers by simply telling them, “Kroger”.
Do you get any annoying questions about your child? Or yourself?
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