So what does the commentariat think on the hair front? Here’s a smattering of comments from folks who like my new, shorter hair:
DM: Makes you look quietly studly and stoic.
JS: The short look, with the T-shirt, is hot. You’ll just have to get used to the idea that you’re going to turn female heads when you walk into a restaurant.
EVC: Even without the tattoos, you look so much more hip and bad-ass. It’s a good look.
CLD: It’s like Johnny Depp in Black Mass, it’s the new look.
SG: Clean, cool, contemporary. And it makes you look ten years younger.
RS: As a personal finance professor, I like that you can have your wife cut it with at home electric hair clipper package; it’s easy at that length!
LD: It’s more interesting, less like an insurance salesman from the ’50’s.
And here’s a smattering of comment from the one person who likes my old, longer hair:
JD: Your old hair is so cute. And you might as well enjoy it while you can, because, face it, the day will come when it will all go away anyway. Dad did not have much hair at your age.
Well….but Dad didn’t have much hair by the time he was 30, either. I plan to take after my maternal grandfather, who kept his hair into his 90s. In any case, the new hair wins by about 487 to 1. But let’s face it: the vote was rigged from the start. Nobody was going to vote for that old hair. Besides, if I were sporting a polka-dot mohawk you guys would all vote for it. Don’t lie. You know you would.
So that’s that. Short hair wins. However, it turns out that none of your votes counted anyway. Marian voted for the new hair, and she outvoted all of you. Funny how that works.
