Hair

Hair is an interesting thing. The older you get the stranger it becomes. In my case I haven't lost a whole lot of it on my head, in fact I really have too much up there. I know that's not something to complain about, I'm not. But it really is quite thick, always has. For awhile my daughter would color it for me. I always wanted a golden tinge to the brown...but it was really too brown, but she was becoming a beautician so I was game and it was free. Now that she is tired of playing around with it it is becoming more and more a salt and pepper look with all the grey sneaking in. My mother is pure white so I suspect if I live long enough it will eventually reach that, and that's OK it looks cool on old guys.
I really have had an interesting relationship with hair. I hate haircuts and I hate people telling me how to wear it, wash it or cut it. I come from the wet head is dead generation and despise all the crap people put in their hair these days. My daughter wants me to use forming cream. I hate the way it feels, though it is better than that mouse crap it still feels stiff and like it's dirty. So I avoid it. My kids like it, and there are some genuine good styles that it helps, and I'm the last to criticize. I've always been on the side of leave me alone about my hair it doesn't make me less of an employee or boss or student or whatever. Though if you saw mine I keep it looking about the style a banker would wear, you'd never believe I was a rebel, well at least until I've gone 3 months without a haircut. When I was young my Mom would cut my hair and had this comb thing that had a razor in it. But the razor was dull, so instead of slicing the hair it pulled it out. So I really hate haircuts.
No the hair on my head isn't the hair I'm worried about. What I can't understand is the ear hair. Why? Why ear hair? I mean if we have evolved from something hairy why didn't the ear hair go away. What purpose does it serve? I regularly use my razor to shave it away. That's a tricky place to shave and more than once I had to walk away from the mirror with a dab of toilet paper attached to my ear to stop the bleeding. What I don't understand even more than why it's there, but why do some guys leave it there? I can imagine there may be a benefit of not being able to hear some people, but I've seen some guys with enough to braid. Not really but it really can look matted. I just don't get why they leave it there.
The other one that bugs me of course is nose hair. I had a mustache at one time so it wasn't as noticeable, but it was there. Some people don't do anything about it. I know it hurts like hades to pluck it out. But there are scissors and battery operated things that will trim it. I mean nothing is more distracting that a shnoz full of hair with things stuck in it. I wonder if it can grow from the nose back to the ear. Maybe then ear hair is really just nose hair misplaced or overgrown. What a thought that is.
There are plenty of places for hair and types of hair, but I just don't get the nose and ear stuff. I guess I really should be on the side of liberty and freedom for those places as well as the top of the head, but I can't bring myself to be that generous. Please just trim your ears and nose. Do whatever you want with the rest.