I have been in..... denial.

I really didn't think my hair was that Gray!

Until the sun was shining just right, and I glance in the mirror.....the horror!

So I took charge, oh yes I did....I hummed and ha'ed a few days!

I knew my emergency awakening was not going to get me in to my regular gal..

as in the one I went to in August!!!

So I bravely scared as hell walk into a salon ...in Germany with little or no language skills to guide me.

I did my best Sprechen Sie Englisch?

Nein, she says and looks at me as to say now what!!!

This is when for some reason I think speaking loud and slow with choppy words, some how they will understand me....sounds a little like this me need color on my gray hair and (using my fingers to make scissor movements ) a trim!! JA!

She looks at me with a blank stare...ah! eyebrow Ja! 

NEIN I point again to skunk stripe me need COLOR!! 

Ja, Ja, Okay heute? (today) Ja! Hello I'm here aren't I! 

Okay now she wants to know what color ....I know my German colors but I really don't want just a solid Brown want some texture....(suddenly the fact I have been walking around gray for too long I need a fancy color!) 

So I look around the salon I figure I can't point to someones hair and say Ja like hers!

OKay bad idea there was Pink and Elvira and pin stripe girl. 

So I say just Brown! Beggars can't be choosers at this point.

She works her magic and I see my gray hairs disappearing and a lovely brown shade appear.  She just keeps smiling at me and nodding her head ! And I smiled back and nodded my head! She say ja das is gut and I said much better! and I thanked god it was not pink and blue and any other rainbow of colors!