TO WET OR NOT TO WET

TO WET OR NOT TO WET

  It was the second home we rented when we moved from New York to Florida.

 We were trying to settle in a new home in Wanetta and I was only four years old going on five.  I had two brothers.  One was two years older and the other was a year younger.  I had seen my mother's boyfriend who I called Daddy wetting his hair when he combed it.  I didn't know why men wet their hair in the first place to comb it.  I didn't think about it or care. 

       

        One morning I was going into the bathroom and I saw my two brothers standing in front of the sink wetting their hair and combing it just as a grownup would do.  I asked them why they were wetting their hair and they said because we are boys and that's how we comb our hair.   I could not understand this action at all.  So I went to the sink and wet my hair too and began to comb it.   They said you can't do that you're a girl.   I argued with that fact.  I asked them what why can't I wet my hair and you can?  "You just can't.", they said.

I complained and answered by telling them that when I take a shower my hair is wet and then I comb it.  They still said it isn't the same thing.  You can't wet your hair like us and comb it because we are boys and that is what boys do.  I still came back with that doesn't make any sense if my hair is wet after a shower or if I wet it at the sink to get it combed.

They wanted to keep arguing with me about it but I stood my ground and I knew even at my age I had a valid point and I told them their explanation was stupid.  Well, I could not actually use those words because I didn't have such a vocabulary yet.  I did, however get them to think about what I said.  I knew that I made sense and they had to process my logic. 

I didn't let them get me down and they never stopped me from wetting my hair at the sink again, but I didn't do it unless I felt it was necessary.

I learned later in life that logic goes a long way when other people try to beat it and can't.

I wet because I proved to them that I could.  (A four year old with brilliant thoughts.)