They make cueballs with shoulders now?

// July 24th, 2010 // Theories, Things that happened to me, relationships

There’s only so long you can be losing the war before its polite to surrender….

That day came two weeks ago. The battlefield was my head, the winner alopecia. I’d been losing the fight slowly for the last 10 years, although far less slowly in the last two. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, many men hide in combover-toupee limbo denial for years. Last time I went to the hairdressers they actually gave me a discount since it was over with so quickly, that was a sign. Watching the video of me giving the talk at Next Conf and barely recognizing myself, that was another.

I asked Annett to tell me when the time had come incase I wasn’t brave enough to make the decision. It seems she had also become comfortable in denial though since she never gave me the ‘the time is right’ nod. I made it easy for her

“In 30mins you’re shaving my head”

The reaction was not what I expected, she burst into tears. I thought that was my job?

Here are some before shots

The atmosphere during was strange, not happy or sad but with an underlying tension, as if we suspected at any moment one of us would be required to kill a puppy.

Here are the during and after shots.

Don’t even start, I know what you’re thinking….

So that’s what a black Moby would look like!

Did he forget to rotate that photo? It’s upside down

Isn’t that one of the bad guys from the Super Mario Bros movie?

Dr Evil has a turkish cousin?

You shouldn’t mock, I’m saving 5 minutes each morning in washing and styling, plus 4 hair cuts and a pot of wax per year. That’s a cool 30hrs and 45eur a year extra in which to spend moping and feeling sorry for myself! Excellent.

Actually I don’t mind it to be honest. That’s good news since I don’t have too many options anyway, which makes me wonder if that’s why I think I like it, it’s a self defense thing. Similarly when were were stuck in that bus in China for 47hrs with almost no food or water I wasn’t hungry or thirsty at all, I think since there was no option to get either of those things so my body didn’t bother to bug me about needing them. Yet now I can’t go more than about 7minutes without it strongly requesting chocolate and a Dr Pepper….denial is a special thing, the toupee and combover guys were on to something all along after all.

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  • mone
    oh dear. you are treading on the path of self-consciousness. when you do it do it properly ducky : ) stand upright! head up high, show your chest. your spine will be gone too at some point - yours seems to be planning the escape already. what else is their to say? you heard it all before I bet: It's just a sign of too much testosterone - captain picard.. golly gosh he's hot! - and hair obviously never grows where we want it to grow.. buy annett a dress from the extra 45euros
  • fletchy
    Posture is the next project, I even bought a book on it and everything :) Unfortunately its easier to buy a book than correct 27years of slouching though.
  • mone
    oh dear
  • Annett
    the burst into tears were a - admittedly very strong - reaction to the SHAVING announcement which turned out to be a TRIMMING act ... I was misled by vocabulary .... I'd rather not ponder whether on purpose or not :P
  • Scilla008
    I'm late to the party, as usual, but ehm...why did you burst into tears?
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