Whoops…The Worst Haircovering Malfunctions
by aviva
Anyone who covers as a rule ends up with a couple of funny stories to tell about the time they ran out of the house without a hat on, or the time a kid pulled it off in front of the rabbi, or something like that. Just a couple of days ago, my friend’s boyfriend came over while she was babysitting for my daughter. When I got home from work, I was schmoozing with them as I took off my shoes and went into my room to take off my sheitel (wig). Someone said something I wanted to respond to, so I ran out of my room – then I realized a minute or two later that my hair was showing, and ran back for a tichel.
We’ve got some really good haircovering-fail anecdotes on our website that were collected a while back. Here are some of the most exciting of the bunch – and feel free to comment below with your own!
Story #1 Michal, R
“It’s hot in Texas much of the year, so I may not cover during the day if it’s just me and my two young kids at home. I always have a beret ready by the door, just in case someone comes by unexpectedly. Last week, I kept getting after my kids for moving furniture around to climb up to my spray bottle of water (for disciplining the cat and, okay, the kids, too) and my spray bottle of vinegar & water (for cleaning). A package arrived so I took my beret off the table with the spray bottles and slipped it on to get the mail.The beret REEKED. I thought to myself, “Could I really have been sweating so badly the last time I wore it that I left it smelling rancid?” I smelled it again and it hit me–it smelled like pickles. The kids, ages 4 and 3, had been climbing up all that time to spray my beret with VINEGAR!”
Story # 9 Lauren, C
“When I worked in a small town in GA, I typically only wore a sheitel or headband fall. One time I decided to be brave and wear a beret with a hat fall. The first person to see me said, very seriously, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you were an artist!’”
Story #20 Jeanine, C
“I was walking with my family by a pond that had many trees around it. I ducked under a tree branch, but not enough. The branch lifted my sheitel right off my head! I was so embarrassed, but fortunately nobody noticed since they were all in front of me.”
Story #25 Aliza, F
“I was newly married and I went out with my husband to drop something off at a friend. I was wearing a snood (which I hated wearing, so I figured if I tried it out maybe I’d get used to it.) When I got to the house I rang the bell and waited for someone to come to the door. The friend lived in a 2 family house on the upper floor. The door had a window on top. I jumped up to look through the window to see if she was coming down the steps, and just as I did my snood slipped right off my head – and her husband opened the door. I grabbed it and shoved it back on my head. Mortified, I turned around to see my husband’s reaction but instead I noticed another guy standing right there on the street cracking up. What an experience….. I didn’t wear snoods out very much after that and was thrilled 8 years later when pre-tieds came out.”
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I’m so glad I could inspire a blog post (I’m the babysitter ;-P )
aaannd Tweeted @rivkachava
Sounds familiar…..
I was at Chuck E Cheese years ago with a friend for her daughter’s birthday and the \Rat\ in his costume thought he was being funny by pulling my bandana off my head. Lets just say, I did not have a meek and quiet spirit when that happened.
Lol, I like Story #9. I still have a beret I bought in high school.. it’s brown with gold sequins. I don’t think I’d ever wear it in public!
i’d like to win!!!!
I loved story #20!
Shortly after my first baby was born, I was wearing mostly snoods. We had tons of mixed company family – both mine and my husband’s – over and as I was holding the baby and cooing, my snood started slipping off, and I ran from the room holding the baby so I could fix it!
Lost my snood while on a snow tube down a hill. Luckily my sweatshirt had a hood! My son ran up the hill and recovered it for me!
The comment about the beret made me laugh. Didn’t you just have a recent post about the association between a hat and a person? Wearing a beret (story 9) doesn’t make you an artist.
I also had a tree grab at me. We went to a carnival at a camp in Monsey and when we went to the benches to sit I walked under a tree and it grabbed my tichel and pulled it right off the back of my head. No one seemed to notice so I quickly put it back on…lol. It was pretty funny.
Another time, we were invited to Succos at the Rabbi’s house and my then 5 yr old daughter thought it would be a good idea to pull my hat off my head, while sitting at the table in the Sukkah. I was so embarrassed at the time but it’s funny now.
I don’t have any humorous stories to tell, but I sure did enjoy reading these!
haha, these gave me a good laugh! i was once on a speedboat in miami and i had to hold my tichel to my head so it wouldnt go flying….my sis in law wasnt so lucky and her tichel went flying off her head!
These stories remind me of an experience my sister-in-law had when she was 8 months pregnant. She overslept for her doctor’s appt., so she threw her clothes on and her wig and took off. She really didn’t have much time to properly put her wig on. When she went into the examining room, her doctor asked her to lie down. She did, but in the process threw her head back a little too forcefully and her wig came flying off. She said it was a very embarrassing moment.
I dont have a story to tell but I enjoyed reading others stories and I would like to win.
What good laughs. I needed them tonight!
Very cute and amusing stories!!
I wear my hair up and covered under various types of coverings. Occasionally my hair will fall down from the clip, its embarrassing trying to get it back up (its very long) without a mirror. I recently bought the pretied bandana and LOVE it. Keeps my hair covered even if a clip opens
Head covering is a new thing in our family. I have explained why I have chosen to cover my hair to our children and they and my husband are very supportive. My 10 year old and I were at the grocery store and we saw another family. The woman had her head covered, but I knew by the way she wore it that it was a different faith than ours. So my son says (quite loudly), \Mommy, that lady is wearing a head covering, she must be Jewish!\ Well, as we ducked into another isle I used this as a teaching moment. I had to explain that that was not the case and we need not make it a big deal. Disaster averted and lesson learned.
enjoyed reading
thanks.
Tweeted this. Thanks.
The only thing i remember is when someone cut way too much of my hair offf!!!
Wow! Some of these stories are absolutely crazy!
I’ve also heard terrifying stories of people’s sheitels flying off in the wind!
i remember when I first got married and was playing charades at a friends house… was demonsrating jumping for some reason and my snood FLEW off my head!
I was mortified… didn’t realize you could tighten them!!!
haha! these stories are awesome!
I enjoyed reading these stories! I especially liked the one with the beret. I am retired Air Force and remember this one mechanic who came in one day to do administrative paperwork. He had just come from the flightline and I don’t think he realized what was going on. We could tell he obviously combed his hair over his bald head and when he took his cover off, the long chunk of hair covering his head was standing straight up and leaning to the opposite side just flapping away! We tried very hard to keep a straight face and lost it as soon as he walked out the door!
I was at a charity dinner attended by about 1000 people. At the table were my father-in-law and brothers-in-law. During the speeches, a man tried to squeeze by two tables. The button of his jacket got caught on my headband fall. Suddenly I felt it pulling right off my head, as he kept walking, unaware of the prize he had caught. I put my hand on my head and held my wig as tightly as I could. I couldn’t say a word to him because I was laughing so hard, I couldn’t breathe; tears were coming out of my eyes! He finally noticed when he couldn’t walk any further because of the tug-of-war between me and his jacket button. When he unhooked his jacket, I ran to the bathroom to put my fall on again.
I also have a story… it was right after I got married and my landlord came to the apartment to check th leaky toilet. I opened the door and he looks at me alittle funny and asks if he could come in, when I responded yes he asked me if I was sure and again said yes. Well I led him into the bathroom and saw in the mirror that my hair was uncovered…. that must’ve been why he was giving me a funny look. So embarrassing!
lost my hat on a roller coaster once…..luckily i wasn’t married yet, but still sad to lose the hat!
yeah, gotta watch out with little kids/babies pulling off snoods…esp with guests around!!
Comment #27 is hysterical! Thanks for sharing a non-religious story. Just goes to show it can happen to anyone!
Reading these makes me wish I had a funny head-covering story.
I wasn’t all that religious when I started covering; I’d had a dreadful and far-too-short haircut and at the time, my hats and bandanas were just a disguise, not a lifestyle choice. I ordered a new hat, though, and when it came, I was excited to wear it out for the first time. I put my hair under a stocking, just like a bank robber would do, and then the hat, and went outside. Well, I live in the Windy City, and sure enough, a gust of wind caught my hat and sent it flinging down the street as I was crossing. I was laughing so hard that I almost couldn’t run to catch up with my hat! It was just like the funny moment in every movie about a storm or hurricane, where the lady’s hat or wig comes off and there she is with the toe-end of a nylon holding her short hair in place, looking like the dog’s breakfast!
Haha, these are very funny!
I don’t cover for religious reasons, I just do it as a fun hair accessory!
Thanks for the fun post.
I just retweeted this.
I have never heard of all these different types of hair coverings.
I am glad I am not the only one who has issues with this.
I enjoyed reading these! I typically wear a white flowing veil but occassionally will wear the Mennonite style cap. I’m studying to be a midwife and my 4-year-old sister, Hannah, associates anyone who covers as a midwife. (I’ve tried to explain, but she just doesn’t undestand.
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We were out yard-saling and there was a group of Amish ladies near us. Hannah cries, “Look, Miranda, there’s midwives!” It was a bit embarrassing…I don’t know if they heard or not. She just did it again yesterday…..