White is Not Right

I've been having my hair cut/head shaved every two weeks for about twenty years now.  However, every so often I decide to let my hair grow just for grins.  Three weeks ago, I made that decision yet again and I have a very tiny TWA.  (Short-and-curly has a different connotation to me than it does to most other people.)  This time, however, something was different.

Yesterday, I was hand-washing dishes in my great-aunt's kitchen.  The house is old-school, almost eighty years in existence.  (We've even had to add electrical outlets because it was built when electricity was as new and rickety as iPhones are now.)  Anyway, over the sink are a medicine chest with a mirror and a light which shines down on the head of whomever is standing at the sink.  As I washed dishes, I happened to look at my new growth of hair and guess what!

There is a whole frickin' lot of salt in my used-to-be unadulterated pepper.

See you tomorrow, my beloved barber.

Comments

[CGHill]

Did you not anticipate this? You're, um, er, over 21. :)

(I should talk. I was greying at 24.)

[Margi Lowry]

I'm irritated beyond belief at my knee; it refuses to behave and hurts when I assume a crouching position. What's up with that?

[baldilocks]

No growing old, ever! :)

[Buford Gooch]

Growing old isn't a bad thing, especially when you consider the alternative.

[baldilocks]

True dat!

[baldilocks]

Exercise. I was having knee issues a few years ago. Exercise cured them. Check with your doc, though, first.

[www.basilsblog.net]

"Natural highlights," I believe the phenomenon is called.

[hindmost]

Pics before the barber please... ;P

(and people get pissed at me... I'll be 50 in Feb; a full head of hair without a streak of gray...)

[baldilocks]

I'll think about it. :)

[Wry Mouth]

I got very little on the sidewalls, but when I grow my goatee, it's mostly white now, like a silverback gorilla. If I want to make people pause before my age and experience, I trot the goatee out. If I want them to underestimate me, I shave it off.

(p.s. "short-and-curlies" is not, where I come from, a description of anyone's hair-do).

[baldilocks]

To the PS: Yes, I know. :)

[KingShamus]

Better grey hair and hard-won wisdom than dark hair and callow youth.

That's what I keep hearing anyway.

[Kwongdzu]

They say when you hit 40 it hits back. Growing old isn't for sissies. Fortunately for you, you're not a sissy! :D

[baldilocks]

What do "they" say about 50? (Next year; I'm having a party!)

[Kwongdzu]

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I don't know if there is a saying about 50.  It
kicked my ass, for sure!

 

I am still planning my revenge.