Author Topic: That was easy (Read 461 times)

oldandslow · « **on:** February 07, 2023, 07:31:49 AM »

Six months after my last visit to the dermatologist that wound up with me having 4 cancers removed and quite a bit of trouble with the underneath stitches working out I returned yesterday for a check up. The doctor only found five little spots to freeze and only 3 were on my head.

Getting ready to attend the appointment was a fun experience. I had let my whiskers grow and had a pretty long set of them. My grand daughter came out Saturday afternoon and trimmed my hair and cut my beard off so the doctor could see my face easily. Her 11 year old daughter wanted to help so she got rid of some whiskers and then the 3 year old got into the act. At least her mother helped guide her hand so I didn't get gouged with the clippers. Grand daughter, two kids, and granpa had a lot of laughs as the whiskers went away, the kids because the way I looked and mom and I because they enjoyed it so much. As soon as the frozen spots peel off the whiskers will get to regrow. There are six males in my immediate family and I can't be the only one with no facial hair. Since I have another appointment in six months the kids will get to have more fun at my expense.

Dee · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2023, 08:29:56 AM »

I shave about once a week. Horses and cows don't care what I look like, and the two jenny donkeys don't seem to notice either.
I wore a mustache for 20 sumthin years, then a goat for 2 or 3, but I'm lazy in my old age, both are just too much trouble.

Graybeard · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2023, 09:57:58 AM »

I shaved once, I think that was back in about '76 or so. Can't see any reason to do it again.

GTS225 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2023, 10:03:51 AM »

More power to you guys. I don't like a beard on me, but I also despise the chore of shaving. Seems like such a futile gesture, so it ends up being about every 3-4 days between shaves.
If there was a one-time. permanent hair removal process, I'd be all over it. (At least for my face.)

Just my opine.....Roger

gene_225 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2023, 10:14:14 AM »

I trim my beard every few weeks 4-8 when it gets to long. Last time I shaved was before my youngest daughters wedding after she asked me to. Saw a picture of her wedding (11 years ago) and didn't recognize myself had to ask my wife who that was. Oh well maybe no one else will either.

oldandslow · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2023, 10:59:13 AM »

I am not going to let it get as long this time. It was getting to be somewhat annoying plus it had started curling. At least it wasn't as big a mess as my youngest grandson's that I call "hairball" and it will come off again in 6 months. I will confess to being too lazy to like to shave anymore.

Bob Riebe · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2023, 11:35:54 AM »

Quote from: GTS225 on February 07, 2023, 10:03:51 AM

More power to you guys. I don't like a beard on me, but I also despise the chore of shaving. Seems like such a futile gesture, so it ends up being about every 3-4 days between shaves.
If there was a one-time. permanent hair removal process, I'd be all over it. (At least for my face.)

Just my opine.....Roger

I get that -- shaving takes so much time -- weird state of mind, sometimes not shaving for three days; I shave in the shower usually and it takes all of three or four minutes,and then I realize that my too lazy state of mind is silly.
SO
I start shaving every day and then slowly get back to -- this takes too much time.
At that, I look nasty with a scrubby two day beard but get a cleaner, longer lasting shave with older stubble.

DDZ · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2023, 12:50:19 PM »

When I was younger I had a beard every winter. Working construction a beard was to hot, and just collected dirt, dust, concrete splatters, bugs and anything else. For the last 25 years I have shaven about every 2 days. Just like the feel of a clean close shave.

Dee · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2023, 01:40:00 PM »

Quote from: GTS225 on February 07, 2023, 10:03:51 AM

More power to you guys. I don't like a beard on me, but I also despise the chore of shaving. Seems like such a futile gesture, so it ends up being about every 3-4 days between shaves.
If there was a one-time. permanent hair removal process, I'd be all over it. (At least for my face.)

Just my opine.....Roger

That would be the ticket right there. And while we are at it, they could kill the hair growing on my ears to.

Dee · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2023, 01:41:28 PM »

Quote from: DDZ on February 07, 2023, 12:50:19 PM

When I was younger I had a beard every winter. Working construction a beard was to hot, and just collected dirt, dust, concrete splatters, bugs and anything else. For the last 25 years I have shaven about every 2 days. Just like the feel of a clean close shave.

Gravey in the beard is a bummer to.

phalanx · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2023, 01:56:17 PM »

I like the double edge razor blade shavers like in the old days. Have to get the blades from eBay.

phalanx · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2023, 02:10:03 PM »

Quote from: DDZ on February 07, 2023, 12:50:19 PM

When I was younger I had a beard every winter. Working construction a beard was to hot, and just collected dirt, dust, concrete splatters, bugs and anything else. For the last 25 years I have shaven about every 2 days. Just like the feel of a clean close shave.

Same here.

GTS225 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2023, 06:18:09 PM »

Quote from: Dee on February 07, 2023, 01:40:00 PM

And while we are at it, they could kill the hair growing on my ears to.

That's what ticks me off about growing older. You end up being that grandpa or uncle everybody has. The one that has a forest growing out of the ears and nose, with eyebrows that explode all over the forehead.

Roger

DDZ · « **Reply #13 on:** February 08, 2023, 01:06:10 AM »

Quote from: GTS225 on February 07, 2023, 06:18:09 PM

Quote from: Dee on February 07, 2023, 01:40:00 PM
And while we are at it, they could kill the hair growing on my ears to.

That's what ticks me off about growing older. You end up being that grandpa or uncle everybody has. The one that has a forest growing out of the ears and nose, with eyebrows that explode all over the forehead.

Roger

Lol, Yes definitely need a special tool for all the nose, ear, and eyebrow hair.

DDZ · « **Reply #14 on:** February 08, 2023, 01:18:26 AM »

Quote from: Dee on February 07, 2023, 01:41:28 PM

Quote from: DDZ on February 07, 2023, 12:50:19 PM
When I was younger I had a beard every winter. Working construction a beard was to hot, and just collected dirt, dust, concrete splatters, bugs and anything else. For the last 25 years I have shaven about every 2 days. Just like the feel of a clean close shave.

Gravey in the beard is a bummer to.

Yeah its been so long I kind of forgot about the different foods that beards love to collect. We make this dish called Bagna Cauda around Christmas that has oil, butter garlic and anchovies in it. then you dip cabbage wedges in it and eat it with bread. It was pretty runny/drippy because of the oil, and that always ended up in your beard. I think the smell of garlic stayed with you for a least a week after that. If you get something that drips on your chin you just wipe it with a napkin or the back of your hand. With a beard its with you until you shower again.

ironglow · « **Reply #15 on:** February 08, 2023, 01:21:47 AM »

I usually shave every other day, or any time I have to do something publicly, such as public speaking or teaching.

On the other hand, I have had the handlebar moustache since 1973. It is getting more difficult to maintain, since it
has gone gray and unless I treat it, it would look like a steel wool pad that a couple Rottweilers fought over.

sometimes I would as soon shave it off...but by now, it is grandpa's trade mark, and anyone who I have met over the last 50 years wouldn't know me.

Dee · « **Reply #16 on:** February 08, 2023, 01:34:28 AM »

Dying my hair is just another old man issue I refuse to deal with. My mother in law made my father in law dye his hair till the day he died.
Every now and then she would say: Dan you could get the dye my husband used and it would be its "natural color". Then I'd tell her that as you get older your hair "naturally" changes color.

Both my brothers in law dye their hair. Me? Not a chance.

oldandslow · « **Reply #17 on:** February 08, 2023, 05:20:12 AM »

Some people just can't stand the fact that they are aging. I knew an old woman that had coal black hair when she was young and when she was a dried up person in a nursing home and over 90 years old she still sported that coal black hair. Every time I met her in her wheelchair when I went to visit my mother I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing at how silly she looked.

When I still had a mop of natural colored hair I promised myself that going gray or losing my hair would just happen and I would do nothing to make a difference. I hit the jackpot in keeping my hair but it's so white it's silver now. My wife started going gray in her twenties as did most of her ancestors and kept her hair tinted for several years until she messed up and got it too dark and decided to lighten it. The mess resulted in when she decided to lighten it back to it's natural color and it resulted in orange hair. She promised herself right then to let it grow out and never tint or dye it again and has stuck with that promise.

I wish there was some way to eliminate the increased growth of ear and nostril hair. Damn stuff grows like careless weeds with lots of rain.

GTS225 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 08, 2023, 07:45:23 AM »

Quote from: oldandslow on February 08, 2023, 05:20:12 AM

I wish there was some way to eliminate the increased growth of ear and nostril hair. Damn stuff grow like careless weeds with lots of rain.

Ain't it interesting how a guy can go through 50 years, (or more), of his life and never have to worry about that, but now, (in my case), since I turned about 55, I've had to trim such unwanted growth about once a week. (I'm 66 in two days.) How does it know?
And I thought that I'd never be so vain about my appearance. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I still have most of my hair, and there's a 2-years younger brother that has just a fringe. Can you say "genetic lottery"?

Roger

ironglow · « **Reply #19 on:** February 08, 2023, 09:20:47 AM »

About 2 haircuts ago, my grandson clipped the excess off my ears, and then included my eyebrows. Having them
short to clipper length was quite unnatural..so now I just resort to an occasional trimming of the eyebrows, which I do myself.
Do0es anyone else remember when John L. Lewis was union boss of coal miners? He was inn the news when I was just a kid, now that man had some eyebrows !

Dee · « **Reply #20 on:** February 08, 2023, 12:28:45 PM »

Quote from: oldandslow on February 08, 2023, 05:20:12 AM

Some people just can't stand the fact that they are aging. I knew an old woman that had coal black hair when she was young and when she was a dried up person in a nursing home and over 90 years old she still sported that coal black hair. Every time I met her in her wheelchair when I went to visit my mother I had to bite my tongue to keep from laughing at how silly she looked.

When I still had a mop of natural colored hair I promised myself that going gray or losing my hair would just happen and I would do nothing to make a difference. I hit the jackpot in keeping my hair but it's so white it's silver now. My wife started going gray in her twenties as did most of her ancestors and kept her hair tinted for several years until she messed up and got it too dark and decided to lighten it. The mess resulted in when she decided to lighten it back to it's natural color and it resulted in orange hair. She promised herself right then to let it grow out and never tint or dye it again and has stuck with that promise.

I wish there was some way to eliminate the increased growth of ear and nostril hair. Damn stuff grows like careless weeds with lots of rain.

Mine is silver and white, Linda's about the same.

oldandslow · « **Reply #21 on:** February 09, 2023, 05:36:52 AM »

I can pick my wife out in a bunch of grayheads without seeing her face just because her hair is so silver colored. Once in a great while I'll spot someone else with hair that light but seldom. I used to use that to find her when we became separated in a large store but it is no loner necessary. I just look at who is riding the scooters now.