What I Saw
Yesterday when I left the pool after Aquarobics and headed for the locker room, I saw a bobby pin on the floor in the hall. A bobby pin! I haven’t seen one of those in ages.
When I was a girl, bobby pins played an important role in hair care. Not only did we use them during the day to hold our hair back away from our faces, but we formed tiny pin curls to set out hair and night and one or two bobby pins would anchor them in place. We would also use bobby pins to hold curlers in place, before the advent of brush curlers and plastic stick-pins. Those pins could sometimes scrape and poke the scalp and were often very uncomfortable. Come to think of it, bobby pins could poke your scalp, too.
A bobby pin could be used to mend broken parts and sometimes they were used to pick a lock. However, it was more likely to be a hair pin that was used on locks. That’s another thing you don’t see much any more.
It was such a surprise to me today to see that bobby pin on the floor.
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My mom used bobby pins up until the end. I haven't seen one since. I had an aunt who used a "pencil" to make her curl, and then put it in place with a bobby pin. She did that every single solitary night. I hadn't thought about that in years.
Hope you're having a good weekend, Nancy. :)