You know you are getting old when:

[GHT]

After several counts , non the same she looked me in the eye and ask, " you are counting yourself , aren't you ?"

:rofl:

 

[Zombie_61]

I went to a funeral a while back and my cousin and I sat at he back and while waiting on the service got to counting the balding men's heads ( a family trait). We could never get the same number. After several counts , non the same she looked me in the eye and ask, " you are counting yourself , aren't you ?"

The same woman has been cutting my hair, and my wife's, for about 30 years now. A few years ago while she was cutting my hair, she and my wife were standing behind me talking in hushed tones and trying to look like they weren't giggling. They weren't paying any attention to me, so I surprised them when I asked, "Are you two talking about my bald spot?" The look of shock on their faces was priceless. lol

Now, I don't really have a bald spot...not yet, anyway. But it's much thinner than it was when I was younger, right on the "crown" of my head (the typical "male pattern" bald spot). And it was obvious that neither of them thought I knew about it, and neither of them wanted to be the one to tell me. But, hell, I'm 53 years old, I know a lot of guys who would say I'm lucky to still have most of my hair, and they'd be right. It's just part of getting older, and I don't see any reason to freak out about it. [huh] I've even told both of them to tell me when it gets so thin that it starts to look like I'm growing my hair long to hide it, because that's when I'll start cutting it shorter (if I haven't already).

 

[Stearmen]

The same woman has been cutting my hair, and my wife's, for about 30 years now. A few years ago while she was cutting my hair, she and my wife were standing behind me talking in hushed tones and trying to look like they weren't giggling. They weren't paying any attention to me, so I surprised them when I asked, "Are you two talking about my bald spot?" The look of shock on their faces was priceless. lol

Now, I don't really have a bald spot...not yet, anyway. But it's much thinner than it was when I was younger, right on the "crown" of my head (the typical "male pattern" bald spot). And it was obvious that neither of them thought I knew about it, and neither of them wanted to be the one to tell me. But, hell, I'm 53 years old, I know (a lot of guys who would say I'm lucky to still have most of my hair, and they'd be right. It's just part of getting older, and I don't see any reason to freak out about it. [huh] I've even told both of them to tell me when it gets so thin that it starts to look like I'm growing my hair long to hide it, because that's when I'll start cutting it shorter (if I haven't already).

The young female barber that cuts my hair, jokingly said she would kill me if I ever do a comb over! Fortunately, I have no plans do do such a thing.

 

[Zombie_61]

The young female barber that cuts my hair, jokingly said she would kill me if I ever do a comb over! Fortunately, I have no plans do do such a thing.

The gray in my hair is s-l-o-w-l-y catching up to the gray in my beard, and one day I was joking with the woman who cuts my hair about the possibility of dyeing it. She told me, straight out and with all the seriousness she could muster, that if I ever walked in and asked her to dye my hair she would refuse to do it. I laughed and assured her that it would never happen, but had to ask why she was so insistent. Her response, without hesitation, was, "It just wouldn't be you." And she was right.

As for the comb over, I'd shave my head first.

 

[GHT]

Now, I don't really have a bald spot...not yet, anyway.

Of course you don't, it's just that the parting gets a bit wider, that's all!

 

[Zombie_61]

Of course you don't, it's just that the parting gets a bit wider, that's all!

My hair's too much of a train wreck for me to even attempt parting it. I just comb it back to keep it off of my face, and hope for the best. lol

 

[Stanley Doble]

My hair started to go gray when I was 26. I use VO5 hair dressing for gray hair, it has a slight blue tint that combats any tendency to dulling or yellowing. I have had compliments on my hair from barbers.

 

[Dan Allen]

I am into sea kayaking among other things and I was joking about the first kayak I had being so tipsy that I had to part my hair down the middle to stay upright. I had no more finished the the sentence when my younger sister busted out laughing and as she walked away remarked that I had taken care of "that" problem.

 

[Zombie_61]

I am into sea kayaking among other things and I was joking about the first kayak I had being so tipsy that I had to part my hair down the middle to stay upright. I had no more finished the the sentence when my younger sister busted out laughing and as she walked away remarked that I had taken care of "that" problem.

You sold the kayak?

 

[Dan Allen]

I sold it and got one more suited to by skill level. Wish I had it back now, with a few miles under the keel.

 

[jamespowers]

The gray in my hair is s-l-o-w-l-y catching up to the gray in my beard, and one day I was joking with the woman who cuts my hair about the possibility of dyeing it. She told me, straight out and with all the seriousness she could muster, that if I ever walked in and asked her to dye my hair she would refuse to do it. I laughed and assured her that it would never happen, but had to ask why she was so insistent. Her response, without hesitation, was, "It just wouldn't be you." And she was right.

As for the comb over, I'd shave my head first.

If my moustache goes gray---the moustache goes.

 

[jamespowers]

I am into sea kayaking among other things and I was joking about the first kayak I had being so tipsy that I had to part my hair down the middle to stay upright. I had no more finished the the sentence when my younger sister busted out laughing and as she walked away remarked that I had taken care of "that" problem.

Ouch! :doh:

 

[Zombie_61]

If my moustache goes gray---the moustache goes.

In my case, even gray facial hair looks better than what's beneath it. lol

 

[GHT]

If my moustache goes gray---the moustache goes.

Think I would rather be fifty shades of than hirsutely challenged. Just a thought on those silver threads: Does the carpet match the drapes?

 

[jamespowers]

Think I would rather be fifty shades of than hirsutely challenged. Just a thought on those silver threads: Does the carpet match the drapes?

True. I would rather be gray then bald for sure.

 

[jamespowers]

In my case, even gray facial hair looks better than what's beneath it. lol

Edward James Olmos? Is that you?

 

[Bamaboots]

True. I would rather be gray then bald for sure.

Nothing wrong with bald.

 

[jamespowers]

Nothing wrong with bald.

For you not me.

 

[LizzieMaine]

True Fact -- in the Era, and in the years just before the Era, customers for hair dye were overwhelmingly male. It was very common for companies to fire male employees who began showing the slightest tinge of grey in order to replace them with younger, cheaper workers, and it was very common for middle-aged men to start slapping on the dye as soon as the grey hairs started to manifest. Home dye products such as Kolor-Bak were targeted primarily to a male clientele, and this went on well into the sixties and seventies with "Grecian Formula 16," which was basically Kolor-Bak in a fancier bottle.

 

[Bamaboots]

For you not me.

True, gotta have the head for it.