I need to shave
 

I did not shave today for the second day in a row. I knew this would mean trouble, the world just treats a stubby man differently.

Anyway a Saturn Vue pulls close up behind me at a stop light. It's a blond woman with dark sunglasses, she's eating an apple like a horse, really going away at it. She chews with her mouth open and takes giant bites, even tilting her head back so the juices don't drip down her neck. Suddenly she stops when she notices me, she puts out a level 9 disapproval vibe. Every time I look in the rear view mirror she shakes her head and beams though her dark sunglasses in a way only women and cops can. My eyes dart to the side view mirror and she catches that too just micro seconds behind my own eye movement, her overt head movement signaling some sort of self righteous hatred of me.

Hey lady, when you passed me I noticed that you are not hot at all, you just have a ravenous appetite which was last seen in a zoo. :D:

The second incident; I paying for my gas inside of the gas station and a young woman walks in. She gets in line behind me, I move a little to the side and look at her sideways to make sure she is not blocking the aisle should someone else walk in. She gives me a look hard to describe; part "hey homeless guy" part "hey rapist" how dare you look at me. I'll admit I did notice she had a perfect waist to hip ratio for such a young woman, but I never even came close to ogling her.

Oh yea, she was driving a large Pontiac/Buick 4-door no rust, most likely the car her parents gave her to drive. I hope your skin clears up soon kid.;)

I just did a Google image search using the word "rapist".
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=rapist&btnG=Search+Images

I'm glad I don't drive a panel van.:p

I gotta go shave now, I can't take much more of this.:cool:

I was really afraid to open this thread....

I need to shave too. I'm riding 65 miles tomorrow and 82 on Sunday.

A little paranoia going on?

Hmm, I shave usually about 3 or 4 times every 2 weeks (maybe 2 a week or a little less). I've got a pretty heavy beard. I've never felt weird about it or thought that folks were looking at me funny.

Yes, on their part. I know what fear and hate looks like.

It's not how you feel, it's about how they (women) feel.

I don't know if you deal with the public a lot, but try this experiment. Shave every day for a week (including the weekend) and maybe dress a little better than normal.

The following week, shave only once or twice, and dress down just a little.

Don't tell me how you felt, tell me how people treated you. Notice the little things, chances are they will just jump out at you.

Do the experiment and get back to this thread, okay?

Women who drive GM vehicles hate unshaven men.

That's one conclusion.

Do you twist survey data for a living by any chance?;)

Try driving around unshaven in the Seattle area, in an old (mostly) white Beetle...

I'm intrigued, but I'm not sure that I can manage that. I'll see what I can do.

:d


edit: dang! can't post smilies now.

I was sitting in my Bentley the other day, had not shaved for 'tree days...so this chick sees me, I don't know her but she, of course, digs me, she can't help it, she's a chick...:cool:

Then I take the Ford Fiesta to Walmart, cars a little beat up...I got a chin as smooth as a marble floor and I'm in a suit.

So this chick sees me.

I don't know her but she, of course, digs me, she can't help it, she's a chick...:cool:

I'm thinkin' it ain't the cheek pubes or my rides...

you must look scary K..
just the other day they wrote about a study..
many women find the stuble 'sexy'
it could be your unibrow, missing incisors, 3rd nostril..
get some loafers,lines suit (sleaves up), a pastel T..oh..no socks..
if you feel this will date you....
upgrade to velour sweats..

Rika

You really need to come out to Seattle. If your clean shaven, your considered 'a little too uptight'. Chicks like ya grubby out here.

Yeah, I guess that's why I've got no problems here in Texas, this is Marlboro Man country.

Brad Pitt doesn't seem to have a problem. If you actually turned out to be Pitt, the vampire with the apple might have choked on it. That would have been worth seeing (for a moment).

You can if you capitalize that "d."

or did that go over my head?

I regularly make the switch between "respectable member of society" and "refugee".

I'm treated the same either way.

Probably wouldn't be that way in status-obsessed L.A. or New York, but out here, it works fine.

There is a little bit of a difference. I've had a full beard for 3 or 4 years now and I've noticed little things now and again. What kind of solidified it for me was when I shaved it off for about a week a year ago. I didn't get some of the strange looks from women like "what do you think your doing walking in the same direction as me" or the fast walk with the straight ahead stares in the parking garage at work:rolleyes: Then again maybe I just look creepy, who knows.
My fav is when I picked up my daughter at day car once and a new lady asked me for id. I said sure and showed her my id. She said "I wasn't sure if your were her dad with the beard and all". What!!!!! You ask for my id because I have a beard, how about you check everyone you don't know. So if I didn't have a beard you would have just let me take any of the kids in the daycare?
Although one good thing I don't think I've ever been carded for alcohol with my beard even though I'm in my mid twenties and your suppose to card anyone who looks under 40 or something like that. Wait does that mean I look over 40:confused:

OK, I used to have a long braided pony tail (wife liked the long hair, braided was the only way I could stand it). I finally got tired enough of having to deal with the hair that I shaved it all off. I took these pics to send to some friends who wouldn't otherwise believe it the day that I shaved. I think this is about 2 or 3 days of growth.

http://home.swbell.net/smasraum/sefp.../DCP_0922s.jpg

Takes me just over a week for a full beard, this was 2 weeks, just shaved the sides:eek:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1238171177.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1238171121.jpg

Of course a month later, I looked like Jerry Garcia:p
Never stopped the ladies, they talk to me either way.

I just got some shaved ham from the deli and it still had a hair in it!

That might be an old joke, but it made me laugh like crazy.:D

I had a smooth face until I took this new job, about a month ago. Construction trade guys prefer their representatives to be a little "edgy," so I dropped the crisp white dress shirts in favor of jeans half the time, and I let my face grow. I've trimmed the cheeks now and eventually I'll shave the chin area, so as to leave a long, droopy moustache. I look fairly good with that. In the meantime, I've been getting more than the usual long looks from the fairer sex. Yesterday, I stopped at a bar to kill 15 minutes before a dinner party, and the young, shapely bartender strongly suggested I come in again some time. I'm going to do that.

Yeah, many chicks do appreciate a slightly edgy man.

Does she like bananas or apples?:cool:

Dude, you NEED to find job soon.


I think you are starting to go stir crazy.


Hey, the annual PCA swap meet at Suburban in Farmington Hills is April 11, you should come on over/down.
I'm hoping to meet up with mike pillayand wcc again this year.

Just give it a few more days, then shave zebra-striped patterns in it...drives the chicks wild! ;)

Geez... how short are your pants if she can see that you havent shaved?

I think I'll go, I need to sit in a new Cayman again and pretend I can afford it.:D

Your problem is you're creeping these women out.

If you move your head when you look in your rearview, that's creepy... you're calling unnecessary attention to yourself.

Likewise with "my eyes dart to the sideview mirror"... I'm guessing you moved more than your eyes.

In the gas station pay line, IMO, it's wierd that you think you have to "move a little to the side and look at her sideways to make sure she is not blocking the aisle."

What's up with that? If somebody walked in, it's her responsibility to move, isn't it?

It's not the beard. :p

Makes me think of Patrick Carpentier in his early Champ Car days. I can't find a pic and NASCAR made him clean up.

Probably a good move...we've seen ya in a dress, just not that crisp white one :)

Maybe it's the gray, I took this picture the day of this thread.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1238344951.jpg

Perhaps I just remind people of something?
http://www.partydomain.co.uk/d-commerce/halloween-fancy-dress-masks.html
http://www.partydomain.co.uk/d-comme...mb/1/19805.jpg

Ha! you should see where I live. You can tell when I'm dressed up because I'm wearing the "leather" sandals.

People are always telling me I should do this or that with my looks; I tell them I could give a rip, I'm married. I still shave for sex, I'm 49 so you do the math ;)