The Things people ask about dreads

Besides the usuals you hear almost everday

How did you do that
Dont you have to shave your head
I heard you dont wash your hair
Why did you do that to your hair

It does get annoying but i try to be patient and spread the truth about dreads, and be a good ambassador.

I have a couple of canned responses and a few smart ass ones, let me hear some of the craziest/funniest things said to you, or that you've said in response.

I once had an elderly woman walk up to me and grab my arm and say "ill pray for you" I just thanked her, and said you too.

I'm sure you guys can do beter then that

 

Are they real?
No they're fake.

apparently i look like Jesus so i hear that all the time and i just say "blessed is my brother"
they like that one...

 

People seem suprised when I know what happened to the dreads of their friends who didn't wash em. Then they cower at my smug face

xD noobs

 

i got an elderly woman who thought i looked likr jesus tooshe grabbed my arm, but didjt say ill pray FOR you, she said i'll pray TO you

what was i suposed to say to that?

i get asked if theyre real alot
or they assume its extentions so ask "how longs your real hair under that"'
or often how long dod they take to do
i usualy answerr i have no idea what you mean by do, but they took 18 years to be

ah.. years and years and yeasrs ago when they were short and had em tucked up in this hat (maybe middle eastern or something? i dunno, ) we had a party at our house
and i opened the door for this group of ppl
the 1 kid his eyes go wide and he says something totsly off the wall like.. i'd follow you anywhere will u be my guru
bizzarre as hell
all night he followed me around asking me questions ..then a couple of his freinds did too
then they started talking biut forming a cult (they were megastoned and drunk by this point) thats when i decided to just slip away and hope theyd forget about it.

another..charles mansons nephew followed me around at a party calling me uncle charly
yea freaky

dreads are semoi common round here so i dont get alotta the weird ones any more (did years ago though)

mostly i get just 3
how long ya had em
are they real
and think you';ll ever cut em

 

round where? if you don't mind me asking

 

Do you wash them?
Do you have to shave your head to remove them?
Do you grow?(marijuana)

 

philadelphia

 

Oh my goodness yes, that one is so true. apparently dreadlocks mean getting asked for weed or offered weed like everyday of my life

 

my worst is the 'do you have to shave your hair off??!' question the most. I think it's so rude! To instantly look at your hair and talk about shaving it off!
I don't get many questions, mainly just people liking them.
When we were in England I did have this one guy ask me if they were 'proper' dreads like-'with beeswax and shit'. I just said, 'no-wax is baddd' and carried on dancing(we were in a pub-ha!) people always go on about angelina jolie from gone in 60seconds for some reason. Like, ooo I love dreads like in that movie! But didn't she only have her hair kind of twisted? Did look pretty cool though...

 

yeah idk why dreads seem to give people the invitation to say ignorant and rude things

 

When people ask if I will have to shave them off, or they ask how long you gonna keep 'em for, I get kinda offended xD I've just gotten them good!! Don't talk about getting rid of them!! They are my babies xD I don't think non-dreadies understand the personal journey and the connection we have with our dreads.

When they ask those stupid questions I have no idea what to say, its the only question about dreads I don't know how to answer Maybe next time I'll say 'No I don't, do you?'

Any more witty reponses would be appreciated xD

 

One older group of women followed me around best buy, then waited at the doors for me to get in my car and when i got close they ran infront of my car and tryed to open my door... lucky it was locked so i rolled my window down cause i thought i had a flat tire. They said "We followed you around best buy, and i felt such a serious spirit and place of happyness when i got to a certian distance to you... I think you might be the next son of god you resemble jesus so much!" ... Thats happened a lot not as drastic like that one though.

 

Dont you have all kinds of bugs n shit crawling around in your hair?


I hate getting asked that one. Its like.......'meh probably, do you?'


I dont get asked if I smoke herb coz people sorta take it as a given but I do get offered tokes on spliffs from random people I meet so it has its upsides hahah.

 

people who dont smoke are usually the ones to ask about it anyhow....
i dont mind people asking me about my dreads as much as when someone tells me about my dreads.

 

well put. Its all the worse when they are the mis-informed one, but i always try and polietly tell them that you dont need to pack donkey doo into your hair to have locks

 

lmao
You too. maby that was an insult to you? Thats how i took it. so i liked your response.

 

haha. i want dreads so i can be a smart ass to people who ask dumb ass questions.....

wtf the second one... idk. thats just weird that people would say that.

my little bro whos like 14 just saw 10,000bc with me and hes like look jason they have dreads!!!! lol. They look sweet too....

 

Yeh I find that one a bit rude too. There's a sort of closed-mindedness in the failure to see dreads as anything beyond a hair-do, something temporary. A guy in my Norwegian class, who's a hairdresser, was looking at them close up and he was like "But your hair is ruined!" and I just couldn't make him understand that it didn't matter, because that's how my hair will be forever now. It doesn't matter how it would be if I tried to comb it out, because that's not the plan. It's like I was talking gibberish, the whole concept blatantly wouldn't compute in his mind.

Stupid questions usually take me so off-guard that I'm either dumbfounded, or so many angry remarks are fighting to get out of my mouth at once that nothing happens lol.

To the next person who does ask me, "But what will you do when you don't want them anymore?" I think I'll just say, "The same thing you'll do if you decide you don't want hair anymore."


Before my dreads I got a few questions about my pink hair, basically suggesting I was either doing it for charity or as some kind of joke. Sadly I was in a customer service situation, otherwise I probably would have returned the question.

 

eurgh you cant wash them!
oh you can wash them? what do you use?!
do you grow weed?
are you a stoner?
fucking hippy..
wash yer hair!
when you ganna grow out of this phase?
why cant you be normal?
they just look so... messy

i get seranaded by twats singing bob marley choons at me..


occasionally i get the
YEAAAAAAAH, DREADDDDDS!! kinda comments. theyre always good =D

if someone asks me a Q about them, ill answer as fully as i can. if theyre just being a **** about it all, then ill be a **** back.

 

You poor, poor woman.