For more than ten years now, I've very rarely gone without some sort of facial hair. Usually a Van Dyke (moustache and goatee), followed by a full beard. For a bit there I had only a goatee. But generally, always chin hair. I have to hide that double chin somehow (thanks awfully Mom, you coulda kept that on your side of your family). Plus, as someone told me once, some people simply look better with facial hair. Guess that'd be me.
I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe it's the facial structure. Maybe it's the eyebrows. They're thick. Like, I've used them as blunt objects in a pinch before...thick. So thick that a dude working that Star Trek video thing in Universal Studios Orlando sort of mocked them when I did that back in high school (I was gonna be the Vulcan and he was going to make my eyebrows more Vulcan like...except he didn't really have to...and he made sure to say it loud enough for most of the park to hear). Maybe because unlike some of my friends that will remain nameless, I can actually grow facial hair. Who knows. I know my father rocked the 'stache for most of my formative years. Perhaps it's hereditary. Though I doubt I'd rock it like he did. Again...he had a chin. If only I could have inherited his chin instead of his "ability" to sneeze about 6 times in a row.
