I need to shave

kach22i · kach22i's Garage

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.

:

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.

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

targa911S · 03-27-2009, 06:20 AM

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

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

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

jyl · jyl's Garage

A little paranoia going on?

masraum · 03-27-2009, 06:34 AM

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.

kach22i · kach22i's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by jyl

A little paranoia going on?

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

kach22i · kach22i's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by masraum

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.

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?

Jim Richards · 03-27-2009, 06:45 AM

Women who drive GM vehicles hate unshaven men.

kach22i · kach22i's Garage

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Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Women who drive GM vehicles hate unshaven men.

That's one conclusion.

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

Jeff Higgins · 03-27-2009, 06:56 AM

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

masraum · 03-27-2009, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by kach22i

Shave every day for a week (including the weekend)

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

Jim Richards · 03-27-2009, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by kach22i

that's one conclusion.

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

:d

edit: dang! can't post smilies now.

Seahawk · 03-27-2009, 07:37 AM

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...

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...

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

Rikao4 · 03-27-2009, 07:54 AM

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

HardDrive · 03-27-2009, 08:01 AM

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

masraum · 03-27-2009, 08:05 AM

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

Zeke · 03-27-2009, 08:07 AM

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).

Zeke · 03-27-2009, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Richards

:d

edit: dang! can't post smilies now.

You can if you capitalize that "d."

or did that go over my head?

Dantilla · 03-27-2009, 08:10 AM

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.

tedward515 · 03-27-2009, 08:14 AM

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

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