Yesterday I shaved off my goatee...
I am not quite sure why I did it
Perhaps it is another middle aged crisis kind of thing......
But I actually suspect that my sister Janet is responsible, as when we all met up for a family meal at the weekend, she told me that I might look a little younger without one!
I shaved it off yesterday morning and when I walked through the village at 4pm with the dogs not one person I spoke to (Sylvia from the flower show committee, Ann on her horse, the red faced Welsh Farmer, Sandra with the allotment, Bob and Olwen the retired chicken farmers and Peter with his black Labrador) noticed that it had gone!
Only Jason, who called down to swap a loaf for eggs, noticed and had the politeness to say I LOOKED 20 YEARS YOUNGER
I have just taken a photo of myself sans beard and I now KNOW just who I look like.......
yeap it's ..........Kathy Burke
On behalf of your blogging fan club, may I humbly implore that you post a picture of the new baby-faced you! I dare you! In fact I double dare you! So that means you have to do it now! Visitors who support this request please comment below:-
ReplyDeleteYup, I agree with Yorkshire Pudding. A pic of your newly shaven face please!
ReplyDeleteI triple dog dare you!!!!!
I'll be checking to see the pic!
xoxo
I'm with Yorkshire Pudding too--Picture please, I need something to make me feel better! ;-)
ReplyDeleteYour critters won't recognize you.
ReplyDeletemmm well after 53 years of life with no beard of any kind ever, my honeyman grew a goatee beard... oh my gosh, its the sexiest thing I have ever seen! Yep uh huh its hot! :O) LOL he assures me that unless I tell him otherwise he will not shave it off :O)... I guess old to one is sexy to another, eh? :O)
ReplyDeleteThat was really good for a laugh... but I too would like to see the face that is now smooth as a baby's bottom!
ReplyDeleteI quadruple dog dare you to show your face, Pleeeeeeeaze
ReplyDeleteIt is a dilemma. I'm in the same boat - my goatee is white, and definitely shows my true age. If I shave it off I certainly look younger, but then I lose the chin. What do I do? look like an old geezer or a weak-chinned babyface - hmmmm - don't like either option.
ReplyDeleteLOL I have no idea who she is but I KNOW you're much better looking than that!!! I'm with the rest of them...come one John..give us a pic!!!!
ReplyDeleteJohn,
ReplyDeleteMy husband has grown a beard from time to time. Currently, he sports a goatee, and it suits him. But, one time i was away a few days, came back and didn't realize until a WEEK LATER that he had shaved off his beard. It just didn't click in my head. I was as dumbfounded as he was, as i usually notice stuff like that straightaway.
That said, i agree with YP and the rest, it'd be lovely to see your new look.
megan
Another vote for a pic!
ReplyDeleteI did the same thing many years back, but with a 'full set'. I was out with friends, and happened to ask one young lady if she noticed anything different about me; she said 'no'. When I told her I was now beardless she just said 'oh'. I was furious.
ReplyDeleteYup, let's have a shuftie at the chin!
Mi' 'ubbie had his hair cut off when Roz was a wee tiny bairn, and she balled at the sight of him. I'm really hoping you don't have the same effect. And come on... show us your chin!
ReplyDeleteYou had a beard? Never noticed...
ReplyDeleteI hope that Chris got to keep a little lock, tied with a piece of ribbon...
Cuddling turkeys and now shaving goats....this is turning into 'www.farmyardeuphemism.com'!
ReplyDeleteI too have dabbled with various facial topiary, favoured the Craig David for a while but soon realised that if it looked naff on every one else then it probably looked naff on me!
I love the "after" picture! But, yes, I also want to see the real you without the goatee. (My 84-year-old mother told me my beard makes me look old.)
ReplyDeletePhoto. Now please!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you don't look like Kathy now, I need evidence!
ReplyDeleteI did that many years ago and no one recognised me at work and my three year old son ran away when he first saw me.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! You having a Brazilian next?
ReplyDeleteVery brave of you. It's taken me 20 years to grow my bit of chin fluff - reckon I'd feel naked without it now.
You can always grow it back, young man, when you want to look more distinguished again.
Bring back the beard!
ReplyDeleteI liked it, but I always think a bit of tstefully arranged facial hair is very manly :-)
no photos!=
ReplyDeleteits being grown back!!!
I liked your whiskers.
ReplyDeletem.
Glad you've seen sense John, I liked your whiskers too.
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI want a picture of how it looks after it grows back. I may be a different color. ;)
I had a goatee for a bit, and like you found than when I shaved it off I looked years younger. Maybe time to grow one again very soon...
ReplyDeleteYour fans demand it of you. Time to show your face, man! (We promise not to laugh!)
ReplyDeleteAs much as I like Kathy Burke, I think you are too hard on yourself.
ReplyDeleteJust read this and once again, you've made me chuckle. Kathy Burke?? Funny. I'm very partial to facial hair...that's why Patrick has donned his big,ole stash for so many years. He'd have a full beard if he could grow one! (Just for me!)
ReplyDeleteMy ex,Stephen,was so handsome with a beard...I cried when he shaved it once, so he grew it back!
You are much too young John to worry about it! I have had a mustache since 1969 and have shaved it a few times much to Ron's chagrin!
ReplyDeleteNow I keep it to hide my and distract from my wrinkles!!