SteveFord
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...you go to get your hair cut, you look in the mirror and don't recognize the old duffer sitting in the chair looking back at you.
That's one of the reasons I haven't shaved my beard off in the last 30+ years--I'm almost afraid to see what's under it.... you find it increasingly difficult to get a good shave. Gettin’ downright jowly, I am.
And the time the barber spends trimming your eyebrows, tops of your ears and if there's nobody watching, those bloody long nasal embarrassments....you go to get your hair cut, you look in the mirror and don't recognize the old duffer sitting in the chair looking back at you.
The lady that cuts my hair always offers to trim my eyebrows and I always exclaim...'don't tough my eyebrows'....then I go on to explain I am growing them out so that when I go completely bald I will just comb my eyebrows straight back in new fangled comb over. She of course takes me seriously as she was not around when I think it was Henny Youngman told the joke as part of his routine.And the time the barber spends trimming your eyebrows, tops of your ears and if there's nobody watching, those bloody long nasal embarrassments.
The same woman has been cutting my hair and my wife's hair for more than 30 years now. During one appointment several years ago she decided, without asking me first, to trim my eyebrows. Now once a week it's "trim the beard, trim the brows" or they soon take on the appearance of the wild chaparral growing unimpeded along the sides of the highway.And the time the barber spends trimming your eyebrows, tops of your ears and if there's nobody watching, those bloody long nasal embarrassments.
You know you're getting old when Home Alone was 30 years ago
He's more likely to get twenty years to life....Mick Jagger gets a stent after fathering a child with someone 70 years younger than him.
I have a betting pool; at what age will the Mick endorse Depends or a straight up bet will Depends be a sponsor of their next big tour?Sir Mick is 76.
Glamping has long since crossed the pond. The reason that you use vacation is because the French got rather stroppy that English evolved to become America's language of choice. Vacation comes from vacances, same as pants in French is pantalon and apartment is appartement. The French & Brits had quite a set to around the period of Napoleon. Given the geography in which the battles ensued, you could say that it was really, the very first world war.^^^^
There’s a fairly recent form of vacation (“holiday,” as you Brits would have it) accommodations over here in the colonies called “glamping,” which is a glamorized form of camping.
There are now several motel-like lodgings with vintage travel trailers serving as the individual “rooms.” Many have a central structure housing the common showers and laundry and such. I find ’em pretty darned cool. But then, I’ve had an eye on buying a vintage trailer (pre-1970, preferably even older) myself, mostly because I dig the look.
We've thought about this as well down here on the "farm". I came really close to buying a couple of vintage Spartan trailers (late 1940s) this past month, but decided that I'd probably never get them restored and ... well ... we just don't like having that many people around.