I'm so Hot

I'm so vain, it's sad. I realized last week that my hair seems to be thinning, so I did what any self-respecting boy would do when faced with this dilemma. I decided to dye my hair. Really, I don't know why I thought that would help, but at the time, it seemed completely reasonable.
I have relatively dark hair to begin with, so I decided to go darker...black actually. I used to dye my hair fairly frequently when I was younger. As I got older, I realized that I just look like an ass when I do, so stopped. I don't know why I thought this time would look any better.
I liked how it looked for the first few hours, but then it started to sink in that my hair was the same color as dirt, and would stay that way.
Sunday night, I decided to buy more dye and go back to my natural color. I bought a dark brown, and worked it down to the roots. Imagine my surprise to see that it didn't change my hair brown at all, but kept it black when I washed it out. My sister told me that I would have to dye my hair really light to get rid of the black, and then dye it darker again. I had already put dye in my hair twice in 48 hours, I couldn't do it two more times. My scalp was already getting irritated. I wish someone would have warned me how difficult it is to get your normal hair color back before I permanently ruined mine.