The year was 1977. The place was New York City. The feeling was groovy.
The world’s most glamourous woman, Ethel Hamster, had just successfully signed a multi-million contract with a prestigious cosmetics company. Her future looked as rosy as her lusciously rouged cheeks. Sadly, her moment of triumph was not to last.
It was a bright, Spring morning when it happened. Ethel rose from her slumber at 6 am, early enough to complete her rigorous morning ritual. Being so glamourous wasn’t easy. Tragically, Ethel got careless and suffered a freak crimping accident. She had been loaned a revolutionary pair of nuclear-powered crimping tongs by NASA and, in a one-in-a-million chance, there was a radiation leak.
At the time of the rupture, Ethel was attempting to pontificate her magnificent fringe. Alas, the radiation seeped into her folicles and caused a genetic disturbance that irrevocably altered her DNA to incorporate a cowlick. It was a tragedy. Struggle as she might, the fringe would not obey any known laws of hair-styling.
Worse still, the rogue hair-shield was inconveniently covering Ethel’s eyes. She tried and tried but could not dislodge it from its hazardous location. Ethel was effectively blind and could no longer leave her luxurious penthouse apartment. Housebound, she started to miss party after party and her social standing began to slide faster than a mango down a didgeridoo.
If only she’d have thought to wet it. Sometimes the solution is too obvious to see.
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