8 Weirdest Places to Straighten Your Hair

Alright, alright. I guess I'm a teeny, tiny bit too obsessed with primping. Not really in a bad, Barbie girl, two hours with the blow dryer kind of way. But after spending the majority of my life as a awkward, dumpling-shaped basketball-head (complete with braces!), I'm just happy to have gotten a little bit of pretty dust from the puberty fairy. So, when I ski, I straighten my hair to avoid nasty tangles in my naturally curly, blonde locks. (I'm a competitive freestyle skier. Pretty sick, eh?) (Yeah. I've travelled to Canada too.)

This straightening is not a big deal. Usually. Except when I'm doing it in a ski lodge in Upstate NY and a group of gaggling pre-teens enter the smelly bathroom and notice my straightener plugged into the wall heating up. And audibly make fun of it.

"Hahahah! Who brings a STRAIGHTENER to a SKI LODGE?! What a freak! Woowww."

I hid in the stall until they left. (And this was not a short amount of time, mind you.) Then I exited, completely humiliated. My face was red as a wheezy tomato...(ah, back to the basketball-head days.)

I contemplated this interaction for the longest time. Then it dawned on me...there are WAY weirder places to straighten your hair than a ski lodge. Ha! Take that bratty snowplowers! (I bet their hair was messy as a rat's nest, anyway.)

8 Weirdest Places to Straighten Your Hair
8. In an airplane. (Are there even outlets in airplanes? Next thing you know, it will be on the news, "A 747 Delta jet landed in a Minnesota family's backyard...just moments after the season premiere of Lost. It was reported that a passenger on the plane was straightening their hair in the closet-sized lavatory.)

7. While on the toilet. (I stand by the general rule that some things just shouldn't be mixed. Like oil and water. Or toilets and hair straighteners.)

6. In the mall. (Ugh...dirty diapers, sweaty french fries and the dingy smell of perfume from those make-up ladies lined up like toy soldiers in Macy's can't be too healthy for your mane. Plus, those pesky mall cops might get agitated at bathroom loitering. Personally, I think the Paul Blarts of the world need to take a chill pill, but that's just me...)

5. While in the middle of a date in a pitch-black movie theater where no one can see your hair anyway.
("Sweetie, I'll be right back. Two seconds."
"Where are you going? You'll miss the movie!"
"Uh, to the bathroom. I just need to do a quick touch-up..."
twenty minutes later
"You missed the good part of the movie! I knew you would. What took so long? I thought you said two seconds...Ow! A wire hanging out of your purse just smacked me!"

4. At a coffee shop. (I'll have a venti caramel no-whip macchiado with steamed soy milk. Oh, and can I have a side of straight hair with that?)

3. While riding a motorcycle. (Ah, the wind rustling through your, er, semi straight hair.)

2. In the middle of an intense air hockey tournament. (Nobody is paying attention to your hair anyway. They're all wearing NJ Devils hats and focused on the intense 6-6 score at hand.)

1. In a ski lodge. (Because without my little incident, this list wouldn't have been written!)