…grandmothered in.

…grandmothered in.

     David Angel 

Good thing for the Mansfield bar
I love to drive and text!
Makes me feel so wild and savage
A poet’s life is on the edge

Oh F, that truck is missing his
I flew under his cargo bay
Knocked off the top of my beehive
Thank God, big hair I always say!

Copyright ©️ 2026, David Angel, All Rights Reserved 

Concerned citizen - 

Did the trucker or you get a ticket?

Poet - 

Yes & no. 

He was cited for lack of a Mansfield bar, but I  was….

Cici - 

Shoulda seen that coming. Sorry I asked.

PoetNote-

The beehive hairdo was created in 1960 by Margaret Vinci Heldt and had a good run.

1960–1965 - big, sculpted hair was a defining look of the early ’60s, worn by celebrities like Audrey Hepburn (in Breakfast at Tiffany’s), Dusty Springfield and probably your mom at some point.

1966–1969 - styles became looser and more natural as the decade shifted toward either Peggy Lipton or Clarence Williams III in The Mod Squad.

1970s onward - mostly retro or stylized use, occasionally revived for theatrical looks, Amy Winehouse, or Halloween.

Jayne Mansfield was killed in 1967 in a car crash involving a tractor-trailer.

In 1968,  a federal rule required rear underride guards (Mansfield bars) on new trailers in the US.

Angel - 

Was Jayne actually…?

ChatGPT - 

No—Jayne Mansfield was not decapitated.

She died when the vehicle she was in struck the rear of a tractor-trailer. The impact caused severe head and neck injuries, but the long-circulating story that she was decapitated is a myth.

That misconception likely spread because the crash was extremely violent and widely reported in graphic terms.  Over time, the story became as fictional as news on Ms. Now or CNN or NBC or ABC or

Cici - 

Yeah, we get your drift, Hannity!

Angel - 

Her death contributed to increased attention on truck safety and  subject to the "Big Hairdo Exception," Mansfield bars were eventually required so teenagers without big hair could roll a joint while driving because Instagram While Driving wasn't a thing yet.

Hat tip - 

Chat GPT