Monday, December 12, 2005

The 3rd Thing I Discovered About Airplane Bathrooms that I Forgot to Mention

I forgot to mention that I also noticed that airplane bathrooms, regardless of what "class" they serve on the plane, have the type of lighting and mirror positioning that allowed me to discover, unhappily, hairs in new places on my chin. Quite upsetting. I am convinced that my chin hair growth is directly tied to my husband's use of Rogaine. Since he frequently neglected to mention that he had it slathered on his head, I would come up to him to cuddle, and subsequently wind up with Rogaine on my chin. He denies that it would do this, but if Rogaine is supposed to stimulate growth in areas where there are hair follicles, then I don't see why it wouldn't turn a minor problem into a much bigger one on my chin. (Think about the implications for other areas! Ha ha ha...) My only consolation is that many of my friends seem to be battling chin hairs, so I'm obviously not a complete freak.

5 comments:

  1. It's not the lighting, it's the planes. There is something about the pressurized air in planes that makes chin hairs grow, and also, I truly believe, acne appear. As a frequent flier, this is something I have been studying for quite sometime & discussing with female friends. One friend also noticed an increase in nipple hair growth* on planes, but I am not prepared to know which of my female friends do nipple examination in airplane bathrooms.

    * If you haven't experienced it already, coarse dark hairs around the female nipples often appear around the same time as those lovely, very thick and hard hairs - what an ex-boyfriend of mine endearingly referred to as "Hog hairs" (but he can be forgiven because that was his name for the similar hairs he got in his eyebrows - that appear on the chin and neck as you get older.

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  2. Sexy Man, O am I SexyDecember 12, 2005 at 1:24 PM

    Just imagine if he switched to Propecia! You would be a fucking chia pet.

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  3. The Husband Says...

    Minoxodil is a placebo. If you believe it works, then it works. Since I clearly doubted its power, I am now onto thinking about how much better hats fit when you lack hair. If it grows facial hair, its just a manifestation of your fears come to life, not a result of the snake oil that is Rogaine.

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  4. Oh Lord, I guess I am going to be an unwitting guinea pig for M's theory in a few weeks. I haven't been on an international flight post-9/11 - are tweezers acceptable carry-on? Or do M&J have an extra pair for guests? :-)


    (Actually, I haven't been on an international flight since I was two, and back then I was not only hairfree and carefree but, like all Scandinavian babies, completely bald. I had an adorable skull though - and the baby passport photos to prove it!)

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