Wig Stories from woman with Alopecia

 I) I have a funny story to share- well, at the time it happened, it struck me funny...Four years ago, when I first starting wearing a wig, my friend and I went out to spend the day together. She drove her car, and we had just stopped at the off ramp of the freeway, waiting to turn right. A woman driving her car behind us, had a child in the back seat of her car and was distracted by her son. Unfortunately, she didn't stop her car in time, and hit us from behind (we weren't hurt). In the split second we got hit, my wig flipped forward off my head into my lap! My friend knew I was wearing a wig. But, since I had just started wearing it(and forgetting I had it on), my initial reaction to seeing it in my lap was, "Oh My God, It's a Rat!" My girlfriend just about ran out of the car screaming, scared the woman who hit us, because she thought we were extremely hurt, and all I could do at the time was,(quickly (and I mean quickly!) get the wig back on my head) and sit there laughing so hard I could barely breathe! This happened to me at the beginning of my "wig experience". Somehow, I feel that this experience has colored my way of thinking of wearing wigs- other things have happened over the 4 years, and I don't find them embarrassing, but funny. 

II) Talk about bad windy days... A few years ago I was attending UMASS in Amherst. The dorm I lived in was co-ed and rather small. It has been a particularly rainy week so a group of people decided to play "mud" football. I obviously chose not to play, and my girlfriend and I decided it was time to do some laundry. We gathered our things and took a few steps outside. I knew it was windy, so we waited to move until it seemed to die down a little. Mind you, it was about 5:00 on a Friday night...traffic was crazy (the dorm was on one of the main roads out of campus). Well, we took a few more steps and off blew the wig....So...the football game comes to a complete stop as the wig rolls by. I faced the dillema of putting down my laundry bag in the mud - or waiting for the wig to come to a stop. Well, I took too long to make the decision - and it blew a little further - this time out into traffic. Cars were actually swerving so they would't hit it!! Thank god for a guy who happened to be jogging by - he actually crossed the street to retrieve it!! Anyway, he brought it back over to me and I put it back on. I was a little nervous about the reaction - but I think it was so funny the way it had happened - people reacted better!! They actually applauded when I put it back on!!