It seems I find redheads wherever I happen to be. They are not true redheads, where "red" means the colour of a desert sunset; these reds range from tomato to rose to blood. The repetitiveness is distasteful. I should enjoy the sight of a carrot-haired one.

I thought redheads of the tangerine-tone variety were uncommon in most populations outside of the British Isles and places heavily settled by those same groups (such as Irish settlers and their descendants in America). Rose red is said to be rarer still, even within the group of "red" hair, so rare as to be remarkable, perhaps even freakish.

Yet that is the colour of redhead I always find. Every locale I visit that has more than a scant handful of people will always have a rose-redhead. Stranger still, they are always female and always either tall for their gender or else short. Never have I met a male or average-height female of this ilk. Is there not a statistical law stating that, for the vast numbers of people I have encountered and the still large subset which has been red-headed, at least one should go against this trend by being average height and/or male? Even so, the trend remains unbroken.

Lying numbers! I should not trust them. There is an answer to this strange quandry, but mathematics and census will not unveil it to me.