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    It has happened

    I'm 42 years old, and when I let my hair grow out it's 50 percent gray. I went to one of those Old Country Buffets with friends. I told the young lady at the register, 1 please? She said, 1 what? I said, 1 dinner, what do you mean? She said, 1 adult or senior? It just hit me like a big brick, I'm an old man. It's funny because, just two months ago, I went to a "Guess Your Age" booth and the guy guessed I was 36 years old. I'm going to get a short hair cut today.


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    Re: It has happened

    Quote Originally Posted by RedBloodedAmerican
    I'm 42 years old, and when I let my hair grow out it's 50 percent gray. I went to one of those Old Country Buffets with friends. I told the young lady at the register, 1 please? She said, 1 what? I said, 1 dinner, what do you mean? She said, 1 adult or senior? It just hit me like a big brick, I'm an old man. It's funny because, just two months ago, I went to a "Guess Your Age" booth and the guy guessed I was 36 years old. I'm going to get a short hair cut today.

    First time it happened to me was at the local Back Yard Burgers, and I wanted to drag the young girl across the counter and smack her. Man, that hurt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RedBloodedAmerican
    I'm 42 years old, and when I let my hair grow out it's 50 percent gray. I went to one of those Old Country Buffets with friends. I told the young lady at the register, 1 please? She said, 1 what? I said, 1 dinner, what do you mean? She said, 1 adult or senior? It just hit me like a big brick, I'm an old man. It's funny because, just two months ago, I went to a "Guess Your Age" booth and the guy guessed I was 36 years old. I'm going to get a short hair cut today.
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    Time to buy a red Miyata, RBA!
    I don't keep a goatee anymore because it's got a lot of gray in it. I am lucky to have a lot of hair and it's very thick. However, my grandfather, whom I closely resemble had hair that I only remember as white. My mom said he went gray in about a year in his forties. I turn 41 this year.
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    Well, on the positive side, I still have hair. My dad was gray/white in his 40's.

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    Well, on the positive side, I still have hair.
    Mine left me when I was in my 20s. I woke up one day and just decided it was time to shave it all off with a razor.

    I'm so used to it now that I wouldn't have my hair back if you paid me. I love being totally bald.

    It is weird, though, seeing the bits of gray around my temples, though.

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    I'd rather be gray than balding. Too bad we can't choose. Oh, well...
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    I'm 31 and have recently started to gray ever so slightly in a couple of spots only my wife notices. But I agree with others, I'd much rather gray than recede. As long as it's still there, I won't complain. My brother started to seriously reced at 20 years old. He's 26 now and it don't look pretty.
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    Re: It has happened

    Quote Originally Posted by Dom Heffner
    Mine left me when I was in my 20s. I woke up one day and just decided it was time to shave it all off with a razor.

    I'm so used to it now that I wouldn't have my hair back if you paid me. I love being totally bald.

    It is weird, though, seeing the bits of gray around my temples, though.

    "And in a funny way, the shaving of my, uh, head has been a liberation from, uh, a lot of, uh, stupid vanities really. uh, it has simplified everything for me, it has opened a lot of doors."

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    So Dom's a skinhead!
    Grape works as a soda. Sort of as a gum. I wonder why it doesn't work as a pie. Grape pie? There's no grape pie. - Larry David

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    My brothers both have little hair left on top, while I'm a werewolf, by comparison. The up side is that both of them have something like Dom's approach. Neither totally shaves, but they keep it pretty close cut. Less maintenance, they say, than shaving. I would never say it to them, having a full head of thick hair and knowing that it would sound patronizing, but I think they both look great.
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    I had a professor come to class one night, and she appeared really, really agitated and not herself. Before class started, someone asked her about it, and she confessed she'd had a bad day ... that this happened, and then that, and then ... she got her invitation to join the AARP. She was about to turn fifty.

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    I am 31 and have been shaving my head for about 4 years now. Whole receding hairline thing going on and all and I just figured I'd rather look like I shaved it on purpose than look like the balding guy in his mid 20's.

    Anyways, the other day I'm at the store purchasing a movie and I guess when the cashier rang it up it came back as needing ID shown because it was rated R. The lady hit me up for the ID and stared at it for about 15 seconds and was blabbering on and on about how there's no way I could be 31 and how she would have guessed me for 23 or so. Needless to say my day was made.

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    Almost 2 years ago I went to Houston along with my parents for my Dad's ship's reunion. Went the southern route going through Baton Rouge and stopped off at a casino. We all went thru together and then I lost them, so I went out to the car (they weren't there) and then started to come back into the casino. Well I get stopped by a guard who asked me to take off my mirrored shades and show my ID!!! At first I was startled (Why? I went thru before) but took off my shades and another guard said, "She looks about 27, 28" while the first guard looks at my license. He hands it back shaking his head, stating that I sure don't look my age... I told them that if I hadn't lost over $50 in the casino I would've given them a tip. Made my day!!!
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    While at a soccer practice with my youngest a couple years back, I heard one of her teammates ask her "Is that your grandpa?". She was pointing at me.
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