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A great moustache and chops...
Not struggling
any longer with the way that we look
Do
you remember back to a time when ‘real men’ had the buttons undone on their
shirts to let people see the hair on their chest? You know guys like Tom Selleck, Robert
Redford and Burt Reynolds – that were hairy and let it be seen.
Then
a time like now comes along and new products that guarantee men(and women) can
remove body hair almost indefinitely. The Product that I see on TV all the time
is ‘No No’ that seems to burn each and every hair from your body. No – I have not tried it but rather listened closely
to the ads on TV. You can get in by
calling the FREE NUMBER on the TV screen or going to the Mall and the TV Store
to buy the $200+ item.
It
must work or the price wouldn’t be that high.
And
there must be a market or someone would not be making a gazillion dollars on a
hair burner.
Away
back in University I shared a room with a guy that was hairless. His name was
Bruce. I was also relatively hairless
too. We made a good pair and keeping the room clean was easier than our friend
Bill that was so hairy that it was gross.
It was more gross for Bruce than me… he hated hairy people.
Bill
learned of Bruce’s aversion to hair and proceeded to bug Bruce to no end. As he came into our room he looked a Bruce closely
and then began to reach in his shirt – looking for something… Bruce became agitated
to the max…! With one quick motion Bill jerked his hand from within his shirt
and pulled out a hand-full of his chest hair… lifted Bruce’s blankets on his
bed and threw it inside his sheets.
(I have no idea who this is...! But he looks like Bill did)
Gross
– absolutely gross! Bruce went ballistic
and Bill died laughing. Bill never ever did that to me – just to Bruce. It was hilarious how Bruce flew into a silly rage
with the hair in his bed and spent over an hour taking his bed apart and shaking
the sheets out to rid them of the long, curly and black hairs.
Man
hair… grunt, grunt… woot woot woof woof!
Arghwooo? All man – hairy man… and hairy man is good!!! Right?
Not
so much today. In the drug store – and
the cosmetics section there is a huge increase of products for men to make them
prettier, help them be softer and smoother, make them smell better and be all
round less of a hairy mutt – moving him into the new nice, soft and tame person
he should be.
Whoah! Who in the world established the norm for
men? And what man in his right mind
thinks that it is okay to have another man or woman tell you what you should
be????
Apparently
a lot of men… because a lot of men follow what they should be doing… by
listening to people that think we should be this way or that way!!!
Away
back in my earliest working career I started with the ‘National Cash Register’
company that was also known as ‘NCR’ – the new name for the vast array of
computers and business machines that they produced. The old idea of a cash
register being the only thing that they did was dropping off rapidly when I worked
for them – the new world of computers had taken over.
At
‘NCR’ there was a strict dress code that was enforced by the management team.
If you varied from the dress code you would possibly lose out on promotions and
raises.
The
dress code included a full suit – jacket and pants, white shirt and dark tie,
dark socks and dark leather dress shoes.
You could not have sideburns nor a beard… and no moustache of any kind.
Your hair also had to be cut regularly and if it touched the collar of your
shirt you were told to get it cut.
Sounds
like the military doesn’t it? Nope, not
military at all. It was part of the business
world that we worked in.
And
it was specially part of ‘National Cash Register’ from the 1880s! John H. Paterson had made that rule as he
built the company at that time to set his men aside as ‘professionals’ from
other rapscallions that frequented business of the day… all of which had a moustache
and possibly beards… and without a beard they had big mutton chop sideburns.
Many
of the men of that day were rascals and dishonest in every way. Paterson’s men
were to look different and if you wanted to work for him – you had to dress as
he said to dress.
I
began to work with ‘NCR’ in late 1965. I
was told what to wear and what not to wear.
And we were told why – ‘because the founder of the company had established
these guide lines and they had set the employees aside as business people’.
Can
you imagine that? 85 years after the old
guy said men had to dress like that and get haircuts like that and have no
beards or moustache… they obeyed… we obeyed… I obeyed and did exactly what I
should do!!????
I
just answered my own questions related to someone telling me how to dress and
act.
I
refuse to change in anyway now. I am now clean shaven… and do not sport a
stubble or short beard look. I don’t like a chin whisker or the little lower
lip hairthingie… I am what John H. Patterson made in the 1880s and 1960s… and
don’t try to change it!
Yesterday
in a kind of ‘senior’s restaurant’ kind of place where there were nothing but
seniors like us… an old guy came in with his grey haired chin/lower lip thing
growing profusely. No not a goatee… not a lower lip hairthingie… but hair from
his lip down to the end of his chin. Not
sure what you call it.
If
a moustache is called a cookie duster his was a plate cleaner… or something???
There
is no good reason that any man in his right mind would wear that kind of thing
on his face. But some woman or a movie
convinced him that it would possibly be good for his image – or something. A
kind of ‘branding’ of his person was taking place. What a nut case… and the rest of the old guys
saw the dude… weird man… just plain weird.
Everyone
looked at him… but no one looked at the rest of the guys… oh boy.
If
I was to change… and that is an ‘if’ and possibly do the stubble beard thing…
at my age I would look like a ‘street person’.
If I let the goatee grow and trim my moustache toe suit that look… I
would have to go back to school again and that isn’t going to happen too
soon. And a beard… or just a moustache
is just too much work to try that one again.
I
am happy being me… older now… white hair… shaved clean every day… and now very
wrinkled wearing no moisture cream nor other smelly stuff.
Just
happy being me – a grandpa that is always the same… and smiling from ear to ear
– the other dude or duds are still looking for the ideal look.
~
Murray Lincoln ~
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