One of (there are many since I am becoming a crabby old woman!) the things that irritate me is when I see young girls with long hair and it's not kept tidy. I live opposite a secondary school and it seems that the girls are all like sheep, with their hair grown as long as they can and just hanging around their faces like curtains. They keep flicking it back, maybe to draw attention to it , but it immediately falls over their faces. I have four great nieces, who all have long hair, and whenever I see them I am overcome by the urge to wash, brush and tidy their hair. What is the point in having long hair if it's not kept in tip top condition and kept tidy? There is also the problem, which is rife in schools today, of head lice. This must surely be exacerbated by girls having their hair all hanging loose. When I was a schoolgirl, our hair had to be kept short or tied back. My mother solved that problem for me by cutting it off!! I never minded at all, and have had short hair for most of my life. I was very lucky that I was a teenager when Mary Quant made the 'bob' popular. I do feel these days that girls are rather obsessed with their hair and seem to be defined or judged by it.