Balding Is Perplexing

As I lose more and more hair, I cut it shorter and shorter. Some people think it looks better that way, but the main reason I do it is to reduce the number of long hairs on the bathroom floor. Not that I like having a lot of short hairs on the floor, or any at all, but seeing long ones down there is just too depressing. When they're shorter I don't feel like I have lost as much.

As more and more of my shorter cut hair finds its way to the floor, I'm having a real problem dealing with some very tough questions. Fortunately, none of those questions involve comb-overs.

A former co-worker crushed any thought I might have had about committing a comb-over. I witnessed the horror of his windblown hair popping up like a hinged toupee. Hands full, he nearly knocked himself out with his briefcase trying to pin it down. Those kind of things stick with you.

Most of my questions involve length, or more specifically, how short I really want to go. I could go shaved, with a buzz, or real short but not quite to a buzz. I've gone the real short route once before, right before a job interview.

One of the interview steps was a group discussion with the folks I would be managing. It went well. So well that I overheard one guy say to another, “Do you think we'll have to get a flat-top?” This confused me until I was in front of a mirror. My hair looked like I had jelled it up to a desert mesa. My own version of windblown.

I could go with the shaved head. That kind of appeals to me. I like the idea of low maintenance. At least it looks like low maintenance. Clip it, shave it, and go. They may even have special razors to get from fuzz head to chrome dome faster. I'm just not sure what I would look like totally shaved. Hard for me to picture.

As an aside, having nothing at all to do with this current discussion, and not that I would know, but it is a really bad idea to use duct tape to see what your head would look like shaved. That stuff really sticks to hair. So I am told. And it's silver.

As some of you know, cutting my own hair doesn't scare me as much as it should. I have attempted, sometimes successfully, to repair bad haircuts on my own. In junior high I got a bad haircut and I vowed no one else was going to touch my hair. I cut my own hair from then until I was a junior in college. I kept it quiet because I didn't want all of the guys on the football team bugging me to style their hair.

I could go with a buzz. Not quite bare, but not obviously trying to hide the march of the hairless follicle. That is okay, and I have seen some men, and women, who have pulled it off very well. But to me it feels like a half step. It might look like I can't make up my mind.

I'll think about it while I soak my head. I wonder what solvent works best on duct tape glue.