Whiskerless
So, last night the kids were in the tub. I was in the bathroom with them trimming up my beard. I took the guard off the trimmer so that I could trim around my upper lip. About that time, the kids got into a fight over who got what particular bath toy and I had to intervene. I got back to the sink, took said trimmer and ran it right up the center of my beard. With the guard off because I forgot to put it back on. So, I had a nice big gap in the center of the beard. As a result, I had to shave off my beard.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Now is the time of year to shave it off anyway. Although being a woman I wouldn’t know this from personal experience, but isn’t is cooler in the summertime when you’re clean-shaven?
May 15th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Rule #3 dude, rule #3!
Every trimmer is always unguarded.
May 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
That’s OK, yesterday morning, I went to shake up my morning orange juice to stir up the pulp…after I took the cap off. Yes, this happened at work. Yes, I spent the rest of the day smelling vaguely of oranges and slightly sticky.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Shoulda left it like that.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I agree!
Do something wild for once!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Oops.
I’ve had to shave because of an accident before… it’s not an unusual event.
Really though… this post is worthless without photographs!
Could have left yourself a set of mutton chops š
May 15th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
been there, done that. . . . thank God it only took a few weeks to grow it back. . .
May 15th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
I should add that no one recognized me without it. My boss thought they hired a new guy first time I ran into him without the beard. . . .
May 15th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I did that once while trimming the sideburns. Fortunately, I stopped before “Travis Bickle” became a potential solution.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I could never grow a beard. It made me look like Basil Rathbone playing Shylock. I had a heck of a cookie duster for a long time, though. But, you know, it’s easier to shave it off than to trim it the way you like it.
Anyway, cheer up, Uncle. Beards grow back.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I’d probably do the same…would probably get rid of the mustache too since I don’t think it’d look good with the goatee gone.
Back before I had Lasik done, I used to wear contact lenses. But then when I started working nights, I couldn’t stand to go through an entire nightshift with the darn things in, so I would wear glasses. My driver’s license then was of me with contacts on; I eventually took to wearing my glasses full time because my eyes just couldn’t tolerate contacts anymore for anything more than a few hours at best. Whenever I had to present my ID, people would squint and stare at the photo, then at me, then at the ID again. Sometimes in frustration I’d rip my glasses off my face and stare at the fuzzy blob their faces quickly became, and they’d make the connection and hand me my ID back, and I’d put my glasses back on.
May 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I don’t think I’d recognize this blog without your beard.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Didn’t you have a similar mishap with a hair shear? Heh.
May 15th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Uncle:
I think you should have gone for the Lemmy look.
And I’ve never seen you with a beard!
Lornkanaga:
Back in the days when I would shave seasonally, I did it the opposite of most. I’d shave in the winter, because the cold air actually soothes the razor burn, and grow a beard in the summer, because sweat running down a razor-burned face sucks.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:56 am
My wife was cutting my hair, and was in the process of doing a rough thinning with a shaver before polishing it. She forgot to set the guard right and a second later I heard her go “oops!”. Not a good sound, yet the reason I shaved my head that first time.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
It’s not the beard on the outside that counts; it’s the beard on the inside.