Men Growing Old

My husband is 64. As he has gotten older he's gotten a little slower, a little grumpier, and extremely OCD but I love all that. What gets me is the out of control hair; not the hair on their head. It's the out of control eyebrows! And the ear hair! OMG! But wait, the underarm hair somehow decides to become an entity of it's own; like the island of crazy hair.

Let's break this down and analyze this one at a time. Ok...the eyebrows. It's like God fertilizes them overnight and they wake up like an overgrown bush! And they don't grow one way, they grow everywhere yet somehow they come together right about the nose. They even grow down on the eyelids! What's up with this hysterical joke? So every few days we have my husband sits on the side of the bathtub and I get out the eyebrow brush and little scissors and trim. And every few days I do this somehow one hair grows even faster than the rest; maybe it gets more sun. Then the wild ones on the eyelids get clipped; then we move to get close to the skin to trim the ones in the middle. I can tweeze because "it hurts too much." Really? 

Where in the world does all that ear hair come from? Not just inside the ear like potato roots but around the ear too! Like the eyebrows, the outer ear hair grows like weeds! And long too. The inner ear hair which hardly sees light somehow manages to grow long enough to braid. Again every few days we go for a trim. And again I am amazed at how fast these things grow! Nature is remarkable.

My husband's armpits since turning 60 are like the hair of a yetti. They grow and grow and grow. We measured one hair (which I did trim) at 16 inches. If he starts wailing a mating call, I'll begin to worry.

There is no reason for the pharmaceutical world to create synthetic testosterone when you have guys like my husband. My goodness! If I could figure out a way to harvest it and sell it to guys with low 'T' I could make a ton of money. Or better yet, we could create an organization for guys who need body hair. Now that would be profitable.

Guys like Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, and George Clooney (Brad Pitt maybe) must have the same problem. Someone has to be sitting them on the side of the bathtub and giving them a trim every few days. So men you must unite and create a group to share grooming tips. There are some out there who need it.