Thursday, February 21, 2013

Mocked By A Foot Long

First, let me apologize if I don't comment on your blogs today - - I am sitting at a hotel computer and it has this ridiculous rubber keyboard that is almost impossible to navigate.  Ugh.  My fingers are going to smell like Firestones when I'm finished.

But I did have a thought I wanted to share.   An important one, I might add.  Relevant to those over the age of 30. 

Yesterday I picked my husband up at school so we could leave for Seattle from there.  The car was all packed, and I was so ready to go.   I moved over to the passenger seat and waited for him to come.   While I was sitting there, I pulled the mirror down to see how old I looked in the natural sunlight and to decide if I needed to wear a scarf around my aging neck.   To my horror, I saw a hair - - on my neck!   It was about as long as my arm.   Just there.  Mocking me.   For anybody to see.   I know.   We all get stray hairs on the most unusual parts of our bodies.   Hairs that the under 30 crowd has no experience with - - yet.  I quickly pulled out the tweezers that all of us over-30s carry and plucked.  Then I scanned quickly for any other offending strays.  Phew!   Nothing.

But, here is my thought.   Yes, a stray hair now and then is normal.   BUT WHY DOESN'T ANYBODY TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE ONE??!!!!   I know.   No one wants to be told by a stranger that we have a foot-long hanging from our chin.   But, seriously -- why can't a friend or a husband or wife mention it?!  Instead, we go through our daily routine thinking nothing is wrong.   While everyone around us is silently laughing at us or feeling sorry for us for NOT KNOWING!   

So, next time you see a hair where it shouldn't be - - mention it.  Text it, message it, phone it in. However you have to do it - - just do it!   The hairy person will thank you.

   

  

15 comments:

  1. Maybe no on mentioned the stray foot-long, because it was not noticeable. It's just a thought...

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    1. He said what I was going to say! That's what brothers do sometimes.... I still love you, Mark the Shark. xoxoxo

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  2. Ugh! Husbands are the worst at that! When my gray starts showing along my hairline, he swears he doesn't notice. I think he's trying to be nice, but it just makes me feel like he doesn't see me at all.
    I would TOTALLY tell you about the hair. That's what sisters do.

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  3. Those kinds of hairs can stay under the skin for a long time and then pop out much longer than you would imagine. It's also true that if you didn't notice it before now, then most other people probably didn't either. I'm not sure how I would approach someone about it anyway, maybe a snatch and grab. I'd zoom in with tweezers and pluck it out before anyone knew what was going on.

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  4. HAHAHAHAHA I tell ya, I spend more time 'mowing my chin and neck' in the bathroom these days. The bloggess just did a very similar post, about how she noticed one single very long hair had emerged literally overnight on her forehead or something. She even googled, 'fast growing hair' and found that it's a common problem. Ah middle age. Ya gotta love it. :/

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  5. Oh Judy, you should know me by now, I would so tell you and have told others! AND others have told me! Hahahaha.. Oh and Judy, btw, you've got ten foot long hair sprouting from your throat. ;)

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  6. I tell my husband, so he better tell me, too!

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  7. The last time I waxed my upper lip, I used the rest of the strip on my chin. I have no idea how I got here.

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  8. Isn't that crazy? I was lying on my stomach reading one day and the sun was shining in the window. I glanced down and there was a 4 inch hair (glowing in the sunlight) sticking out of my bra - and it was attached!! I have one spot on the inside of my right arm that gets an occasional long one, too.

    I'll be turning 40 this August - do I need to start carrying tweezers with me??

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  9. I am here for you, Judy. I pull all sorts of weird hairs out of friends' faces, from behind their knees, and off backs. I'm practically Mother Theresa.

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  10. It never fails. You always find those little buggers just after you've been talking to someone.

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  11. This just happened to me! When I saw it, all I could think was how come NO ONE told me it was there? It was long enough to curl.....I was just glad I didn't notice it until I was home. If I'd have been at work (and shockingly tweezer-less) I'd have had to fake a stomach illness and gone home.

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  12. I hate those hairs! And for some reason I haven't caught on to the idea that I should carry tweezers with me at all times! LOL Hope you're enjoying your time away.

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  13. It probably was not noticeable being just one hair, even if it was foot-long!

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  14. I swore I commented on this already, but I don't see it. Alas, these hairs are whacko. Who knows what happened here? It might have been blonde until today... and unnoticeable. They turn dark overnight. It is straight out of Weird Science.

    BTW, I dedicated something to you on my Thursday post last week...

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