Friday, June 5, 2009

Nose-Hole Hair

As a man ages, it is a well known and unavoidable fact that hair develops where it is unwanted. As George Costanza of "Seinfeld" once said "You have to be vigilant", lest these unwanted tufts get out of hand.
However, not all men are as vigilant as they should be.
Case in point, a fellow I used to work with. Although in most other aspects he was very well groomed, he suffered from one unattended hairy-area - 'The nostril hair'. It wasn't walrus style or bushy. In fact, it was but one single hair. However, this one, single, solitary hair was very thick and very dark. And very, very long.
This rogue hair grew out of his nostril and almost all the way down to his upper lip.
I truly do not know how he missed it. In fact, I would believe that he must have taken great pains in order to not accidentally clip it while shaving.
The question then arises: 'Why?'
Perhaps he read somewhere that the length of a mans robust nasal hair proved his virility. Or perhaps he suffered from a rare condition whereby if he ever trimmed it his brain would loose elasticity. Perhaps it was a gypsy curse. Maybe he was aiming for a Guinness World Record.
I do not know.
All I know is that it was very hard to look him in the eye while speaking to him.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Perhaps he is simply trying to grow his hair out. I am actually growing my "head hair" out at the moment. It could be possible that he simply prefers long hair to short? Or, if he's balding, maybe he feels proud about that one hair that is continuing to grow, and it's "making up" for the LOSS of hair on his head? If he's not balding, then please ignore this possible reason.....
I suppose you *could* always ask him about it.
I would *love* to be a fly on the wall during THAT conversation!
;-)