Bad Hair

Oh my, today was a challenge. There is just so much to write about that I had trouble narrowing it down! Perhaps I was just cranky today but all sorts of things kept happening, I kept thinking: that would be a blog post there! In the end, I have decided to restrain myself and just write about bad hair.

No - I promise that this is not a post about Britney Spears.

Although it could well be. Quick, someone get this girl some help! While you're at it - help her children while they still can be helped.

Today's post is actually inspired by a man Paul and I noticed whilst shopping for groceries on Saturday. He had the worst combover I have ever seen (and that is a tough act to follow once one has seen pics of Donald Trump!)

This unfortunate senior had a comb over that started at the base of his skull. The hair back there must have been close to 16 inches long! Each one of those few remaining hairs was gelled to within an inch of its life and arranged up around his tiny head to the front where he last had a hairline, likely in 1953. It was a real treat to see - I wanted to take a pic for the blog so I could show you what it really looked like but Paul wouldn't let me. SIGH

I too understand the trauma of going bald. (suitable sounds of sympathy are appreciated here) I used to be quite vain about my hair, but when it got to the point that it looked foolish off it came! Now I just buzz it into short spikes.

Always the educator, I researched combovers. Here's what I discovered:

A combover is a hairstyle worn by bald or balding men in which the hair on one side of the head is grown long and then combed over the bald area.

A variation of the combover (whereby baldness is concealed by long hairs combed in three separate directions) has a U.S. Patent 4,022,227 by Donald J. Smith and his father, the late Frank J. Smith, of Orlando, Florida, who were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in Engineering for their effort.

Such is the interest in this hairstyle that a one-hour documentary –Comb Over -the Movie– has been made about it.

Who knew? Someone should do these sad men a favour and snip off the offending combovers and we can all rest easier, well, I know I could sleep better anyway.

Happy President's Day to my pals south of the border!

Comments

[sandi @ the whistlestop cafe]

You crack me up!
And Paul was right, it was very nice of you not to show his face.