– The 8 .m. marketing meeting I attended today was apparently the land where bad hair accessories went to die. At just one table there was a scrunchi, a 80s-style fabric headband and a banana clip. You remember banana clips, don’t you? (Example below. I wish I could have gotten a live shot, but I don’t think she would have appreciated me up in her face with my cell phone.)
The best part was her curly bangs and slicked back sides, making it not only a banana clip hairdo, but a mullet!
– Jen and I went on a haunted hayride on Saturday (yeah, yeah, shut up) but had to stop at the ATM on the way. When I pulled up the machine was beeping because someone had left their card in it. Since the bank was closed, we weren’t sure what we should do. We searched the card for a phone number, but there was none. No “in case this card is found call here”. Nothing. So we did the only thing we could think of; bring it to the police station. Because we are good Samaritans.
Or maybe because we were paranoid that we were on surveillance taking the card from the ATM.
– My sister pierced her nose. I can’t say I’m surprised, but I think she’s a big idiot. Why? She hates her nose! Obviously drawing more attention to it is the best possible idea.
– At our last tennis lesson last night Jen and I kicked some serious ass, beating our opponents three games to one. To celebrate, we did a jump in the air chest bump. Which works a lot better when you don’t have boobs. Our instructor enjoyed it.
– Last night Michael climbed into bed and while spooning me, grabbed my hand. “What’s that?” he said, fingering my ring. I laughed at his joke. “It’s still new. And really, really nice,” he said.
Awww.
These Little Moments 
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October 16, 2007 at 10:58 am
kristen
i can say that banana hairclips are not a constant in the marketing profession. i’m in marketing and i threw mine all out when i was 10 years old. 😛
October 16, 2007 at 11:19 am
verybadcat
Man, I thought my eternal ponytail was bad.
October 16, 2007 at 11:21 am
elizabethews
oh no. that is not good hair. I work with someone who wears scrunchies on a regular basis. I found scrunchies in a box of old crap the other day…I gave them to my cats. They’re good to fling across the room (slingshot style) and the cats freak out.
October 16, 2007 at 11:23 am
Peter
Oh man… You think that they still make those banana clips? Or was it pulled out of a dresser drawer someplace.
October 16, 2007 at 11:23 am
Jess
Maybe your sister is hoping that when people look at her nose from now on, they’ll notice the piercing instead of the nose itself. Also, Torsten still grabs my hand every now and then and says, “Nice rock!”
October 16, 2007 at 11:25 am
DG
BANANA HAIRCLIPS??? Should be illegal. I used to want a nose ring forever, thankfully, I never had the guts to actually get it done 🙂
October 16, 2007 at 11:25 am
onebigholiday
I did not know what a banana hairclip looked like…wow…
October 16, 2007 at 11:25 am
Lisa
Ah, banana clips. I am reminded of the time when I thought using one on the side of my head was cute.
October 16, 2007 at 11:29 am
Clink
Gahhhhh banana clips. What were the 80’s thinking??
So cute about the ring. M will grab my hand when we’re in bed and say “hi, ring.” It makes me melt.
October 16, 2007 at 11:45 am
L B
I actually feel bad for people who still wear scrunciis and banana clips. WHY ARE THEY STILL IN PRODUCTION? WHY ARE THEY STILL ON STORE SHELVES? It really isn’t their fault. They think they are still “allowed” because they are still being sold, however these two things are not related. Stores are setting people up for disaster. I am disgusted.
October 16, 2007 at 11:56 am
Melissa
Banana clips are bad enough, but that she styled her hair to look like a mullet…really bad.
Cute about Michael and the ring. E will play with mine when holding my hand. And sometimes he asks if I still like it. Yeah, like I’m ever NOT going to LOVE it.
October 16, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Jack
I had a similar situation where my friend Daniel and I walked up to an ATM and found it beeping like crazy. I stare at the abandoned card and umm and ahh for a while, looking around for an owner. Suddenly the ATM just swallows the card and pretends nothing ever happened.
Problem solved. 😀
October 16, 2007 at 12:02 pm
kat
i still own (though do not use) the banana clip WITH the fake curly hair attached, so all you had to do was pony-tail, clip and go.
great for dance recitals. you know, in case one needs to break out in dance…
October 16, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Tina Vaziri
Aww cute, and hilarious about the hair situations! I work in Marketing and I’m glad to say that we are the best dressed department, no crazy fashion statements from the 80’s here! But I guess it’s not fair to compare, because I work at a software company and there are a lot of nerds… oh well!
October 16, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Michelle
i remember banana hair clips. my mom probably still has mine. she saves EVERYTHING.
October 16, 2007 at 1:21 pm
DevilsHeaven
I wore a banana hair clip to my sister’s wedding, when I was 12. And I curled it first, so, yeah, my hair kinda looked like the pic, just not AS curly. If memory serves, you automatically get a mullet when you pull the pieces together.
Am I the only one who removes her ring every night?
Must be the year I spent in retail hell called a jewelry store.
October 16, 2007 at 1:27 pm
mcgee
wow. a scrunchi and a banana clip at the same table? not THAT’S a rare sight these days…i remember i used to have scrunchies in every imaginable print and color. oh man was it bad.
p.s. you and michael are so cute i can’t take it.
October 16, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Hope
I can’t believe you actually saw someone wear a banana clip! Hehe. I would have killed to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. But only if you had actually gone up to take a photo of her. Priceless image in my head.
October 16, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Michelle
Hahahahha! There WAS a lot of bad hair there! GOOD CALL!
And yes, everyone, there WAS a banana clip.
October 16, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Michelle
PS, I probably will have photos of it for you to post later this week.
October 16, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Anna
Seriously? A banana clip? This reminds me of the SATC episode with Carrie and the scrunchie girl. Eeek.
October 16, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Anna
Oh, and I once took a photo of a girl in a bar wearing super short shorts, high heels (not the good kind, they may have been white PUMPS) and a full-on FRENCH TWIST with flowers in it. And no, she was not a bridal refugee.
October 16, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Ashley
Hahaha a mullet AND a banana clip? I wish i had been there to witness it. Altho i still haven’t recovered from the woman wearing a rabbit on her head on the subway last winter. It literally was a giant furball on her head complete with rabbit feet dangling on either side of her head. I wanted to gag!
Oooo i love haunted hayrides, how fun!
October 16, 2007 at 3:56 pm
lspoon
Aw, boys are so sweet.
My new site is still a work in progress but I’m glad you like it.
October 16, 2007 at 8:23 pm
AP
ohhh this reminds me of the Sex and the City episode where Carrie reads Burger’s book and screeches “A SCRUNCHI!” and he gets all upset because he has no idea thats a huge fashion no no. Some people just don’t get it.
(But I would’ve shoved my camera phone towards her head and snapped a pic anyways. lol)
October 16, 2007 at 10:53 pm
pbandrazz
ewwww banana clip. no more words.
seriously, where do these people come from? do they not pay attention to anything about style updates?
October 16, 2007 at 11:07 pm
itsallabouthallie
they still make banana clips? yuck! My hair is so fine and pin straight i never could have one in my hair, scrunches, those are still around. wow sounds like a time warp to me!
October 16, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Dani
Nose rings are wonderful!!! I have had mine for 5 years! I bet she looks awesome w/ it.
Now about the hair accessories: There is this lady that nobody likes in a few of my classes. Not only is she completely rude, but also has the shakes. We say that is just due to her old age. Anyways, she wears scrunchies, almost every class OR those god awful huge 80’s clips. You know the ones that had plastic pieces on them or big bows. Some people can’t let those items go.
October 17, 2007 at 12:41 am
Chelle
Oh, you’ve so gotta dish on the rest of the attire on the woman with the banana clip. Seriously, the hair could not have been the only offense. What the hell was she wearing? Let me guess… shoulder pads? OMG!
😀
October 17, 2007 at 12:42 am
libby
oh gosh i had an encounter with a mullet woman today too! and hahaha at your chest bump…i’ve made that mistake!
also, the engagement jokes? so sweet!
October 17, 2007 at 8:55 am
La
Man, does that banana clip bring back memories. I was a big fan, myself. I’m not going to lie. But it was in 1987. So, yah.
October 17, 2007 at 9:12 am
Princess Taj
Ahhhhhh, the banana clip. I think I owned one in every color. Same with the scrunchies. I actually remember that the boy I had a crush on in high school touched my scrunchie, and so I slept with it under my pillow for months.
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