The bad
thing about aging is that the hair on your head takes a vacation and never
returns ...or maybe it does in a different form. It grows on and out of your
ears and out your nose.
Gladys
has tweezed the hair between her eyebrows for years. Now it’s the only eyebrow
hair that continues to grow. The remainder of her eyebrows have fled to the
Promised Land. The hair on her legs continues to be a problem, but they, like
her personality, are softening with age. She looks forward to the promised
future when they will join the hair on her head and her eyebrows in that great
beyond.
George,
now bald on the other hand, doesn’t seem bothered by the forest appearing on
his ears or the bushes growing out of his nostrils. It drives Gladys crazy.
Each time she sits next to him, she grabs a pair of tweezers and begins to
pluck away. This, of course, drives George out of his mind and brings tears to
his eyes from the pain. Gladys doesn’t understand this since she’s been
tweezing since she was out of diapers.
While George is busy at
work on his computer, Gladys rolls her office chair next to his with tweezers
in hand, and begins to thin the forest from the outside edge of his right ear.
He winces, cries, and loses track of what he was doing on his computer. When she
starts on his left ear, he yells, “Stop! I’m waiting for those to grow long
enough I can do a comb-over!”
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