Hair on the brain

I am back. I have had a weekend to think about things and see stuff. It has all come back to hair stories. It is like I have in grown hair on my head and it is tickling my brain, or what I pass off as a brain. In any event, here it goes.

On Saturday, the wife and I went out for dinner with her friend and her husband. We went to this Asian type of restaurant (The Green Papaya) as it serves a sort of Thai/Vietnamese type of food. It is good, love that cilantro. Anyway, the husband, who turned 50, was mentioning that his hair felt very short as he had just got it cut. It was shorter than he was used to. I noticed that for his age he had a good head of hair. I turned to my wife and said that he could get quite the mullet out of his hair if he wanted. The thought of it made me chuckle, but what doesn't.

As were sitting, me facing the front window (I get anxious when my back is to a plate glass window, I figure when they come to off me, I want to see the bullet coming, but that is just me) I got a good view of the back of the head of the guy sitting at the next table. I noticed that he had a pony tail, though a shortish one. I start to notice that he is bald on top but cannot tell his age or hair color as it is sort of reddish in the pony but pulled back really tight. He turns around and I get that "who the fuck do you think you are fooling" revelation. This was no ordinary pony tail but an older and graying man's attempt at using a pony tail as a comb over type of deal. He had his bald spot on his crown and still had hair in the front. He grew it really long and combed it over and tied it all in a lovely pony tail. He had a part like John Belushi doing the old "Samurai" skits on SNL. We left the restaurant and I was compelled to ask my wife, "What was the deal with comb over pony tail? Who does he think he is fooling?" I mean he was with a woman (wife or girlfriend I presume), how does she allow him to leave the house like that? Who is he trying to fool? If it is others, it ain't working and if it is himself, then it is just sad.

On to Sunday, we were at an engagement party brunch for my cousin's daughter, who would also be a cousin. I saw my cousin and his brother, also a cousin, and noticed that for guys in their 50s, they also had impressive heads of hair. They both have hair like their father, my uncle, who had coarse, wiry hair as I recall. Sort of like pubic hair on their heads. My cousin, whose daughter is getting married, had his hair sort of staightened and brushed back. It just puffed out toward the sides. I was wondering if going with the Dr. Zeus hairdo was by design or accident. It was just an observation but he did seem to pull the hairstyle out of Planet of the Apes. But it looks good on him.

That is all for today. Ciao.