#TellAlice I'm tall, pale, and Irish. I used to have long, strawberry blonde hair when I was growing up. People loved to touch it, braid it, etc. I was not a fan of people touching me, so one day in highschool, I went nuclear and had my friends come over, shave it into a mohawk, dye it neon green, and rubber cement it into a huge fuckoff fan.

A few months later, the only path forward was to shave it bald to get rid of the rubber cement.

And that's how I ended up in rural Idaho, with a shaved head, *not* being assaulted and left in a ditch by a random group of neo-nazi skinheads that hassled me on my walk to the country bar to sneakily buy smokes from the old cigarette machine there.

It was a surreal interaction. Fuck Nazis.

@alice

Fuck off neon green hair? Cool
Smokes? Naughty fucking Alice! I am very upset!

But neon green hair πŸ€”πŸ‘€πŸ˜Ž

@alexadeswift both my parents were smokers, most of my friends were smokers. I picked it up at 15 and smoked for a number of years, then said fuck this and stopped.

It's gross, and I regret ever starting, but at least I'm one of the lucky ones who was able to walk away from it with working lungs.

@alice @alexadeswift same
It's been 13 years since I quit after 21 years of addiction.
It's the worst drug by far.
@natasha @alice well done to you both for quitting!! I only finally managed it a year or so ago 
@May @alice well done to you too May ❀️
It's an amazing achievement
@natasha thanks Tasha 😊 it took a lot of tapering off, and false starts!
@May happens to all of us 😊
It's not your fault