With my mum, it’s the opposite. She hates when I get my hair cut again, as according to her, “it just starts to look nice again”. But I like it short and easy to manage. And my hair isn’t suitable to wear long any way, it gets thin and frizzy at some point and I have to wear it in a ponytail all the time to look presentable.
I worked as a technician while going to college. I grew a beard. My boss’s boss’s boss (a big shot) came to my station. “Is it frontier-days in your town?”No sir. “Then shave that GD thing off.”
I grew it back after graduating and getting a great job. After a few years I shave it off. The then new boss said “Man, grow your beard back, you look awful!”
Yet another story about suits, ties going to jeans, teeshirts.
I started my beard when I was about 22, and that summer went to the family cottage. My aunt took one look at me and said “Your Uncle Jack says you can borrow his razor before supper.” I replied, “Thanks, but I’m having supper in town tonight.” The beard was never mentioned again.
One of the first things each of my daughters did when they came home from college was a nice, warm shower with REAL water pressure. Apparently, dorm showers are pretty wimpy.
I grew a beard during my last semester of college, just out of curiosity as to what it would look like. It was the first and only time I ever let it grow. I never had any intention of keeping it and did shave it off just before the graduation ceremony as I had always planned.
But boy was my mother nervous. She kept asking “When are you going to shave? When are you going to shave?”
Oh! Putting on the agony/Putting on the style/That’s what all the young folks/Are doing all the while/And as I look around me/I’m very apt to smile/To see so many people/Putting on the style
Michael is good for now. When he leaves the sheltered existence of academia and has to make it in the real world he will learn either the hard way or the easy way that we are judged by our appearance.
I didn’t want to spend everyday of my life cutting hair off of my face. I found a woman who loves men with beards and haven’t seen my chin in 45 years.
Mike’s growth looks pretty good. Someone commented on his 19-year-old kid brother’s facial hair that it looked like a cat could lick it off — Mike’s is better than that!
No, Mike, you miss the point as usual. Your mother is not asking if you want to shave. She is telling you that you will, unless you want to eat elsewhere.
No, he looked terrible with an almost-beard for six weeks. Now he looks like someone with a manly beard growth. I could never get beyond almost-beard so I gave it up. :)
Asharah 11 months ago
No, he had to grow it. It started with stubble.
9thCapricorn 11 months ago
You went to college, Elly. You’ve see new froshs grow beard trying to look older and worldly. Your Mike is no exception.
MichaelAxelFleming 11 months ago
Does Elly not understand how hair grows?
Enter.Name.Here 11 months ago
Baby is growing up, Elle.
GeorgeInAZ 11 months ago
Mothers and their sons.
Gizmo Cat 11 months ago
With my mum, it’s the opposite. She hates when I get my hair cut again, as according to her, “it just starts to look nice again”. But I like it short and easy to manage. And my hair isn’t suitable to wear long any way, it gets thin and frizzy at some point and I have to wear it in a ponytail all the time to look presentable.
Zykoic 11 months ago
I worked as a technician while going to college. I grew a beard. My boss’s boss’s boss (a big shot) came to my station. “Is it frontier-days in your town?”No sir. “Then shave that GD thing off.”
I grew it back after graduating and getting a great job. After a few years I shave it off. The then new boss said “Man, grow your beard back, you look awful!”
Yet another story about suits, ties going to jeans, teeshirts.
RickTengle 11 months ago
they don’t have showers at that college?
RickTengle 11 months ago
how far is college?
French Persons Premium Member 11 months ago
No, Elly, Michael has looked like a doofus all his life.
KageKat 11 months ago
I honestly wonder if she would feel less weird about it if Mike’s hair on his head was shorter.
HarryLime Premium Member 11 months ago
I started my beard when I was about 22, and that summer went to the family cottage. My aunt took one look at me and said “Your Uncle Jack says you can borrow his razor before supper.” I replied, “Thanks, but I’m having supper in town tonight.” The beard was never mentioned again.
birdmaninfl 11 months ago
Ha ha
Wren Fahel 11 months ago
One of the first things each of my daughters did when they came home from college was a nice, warm shower with REAL water pressure. Apparently, dorm showers are pretty wimpy.
Argythree 11 months ago
I really don’t think the moustache is an improvement…
EMGULS79 11 months ago
Mothers REALLY don’t like beards.
I grew a beard during my last semester of college, just out of curiosity as to what it would look like. It was the first and only time I ever let it grow. I never had any intention of keeping it and did shave it off just before the graduation ceremony as I had always planned.
But boy was my mother nervous. She kept asking “When are you going to shave? When are you going to shave?”
“Eventually….” LOL!!!!!
Man of the Woods 11 months ago
Not bad for six weeks, but kind of sparse.
jbordzol 11 months ago
It could have been worse; he could have hardware all over his face instead of hair!
ladykat 11 months ago
Oh, the horror of a mother. Elly, I feel that way when I look at my grandson!
kaycstamper 11 months ago
You don’t make disparaging remarks about your grown child, Ellly! Be nice.
bookworm0812 11 months ago
No, six weeks ago, he was clean-shaven. NOW he looks like that.
Linguist 11 months ago
Young man just from college
Makes a great display
With some fancy adjective
Which he can hardly say
It can’t be found in Webster’s
And won’t be for a while
But everybody knows he’s only
Putting on the style
.
Oh! Putting on the agony/Putting on the style/That’s what all the young folks/Are doing all the while/And as I look around me/I’m very apt to smile/To see so many people/Putting on the style
eced52 11 months ago
Slowly but surely, Ellie. Now bring on Rhetta.
g04922 11 months ago
It could be worse, Elle…. Mike could have joined a rock band…
rebelstrike0 11 months ago
Michael is good for now. When he leaves the sheltered existence of academia and has to make it in the real world he will learn either the hard way or the easy way that we are judged by our appearance.
jim_martin29 11 months ago
I didn’t want to spend everyday of my life cutting hair off of my face. I found a woman who loves men with beards and haven’t seen my chin in 45 years.
rroush Premium Member 11 months ago
Every strip I’ve opened today has opened on yesterday’s date. What’s going on? Anybody else have this problem?
CoreyTaylor1 11 months ago
News Flash, Mike: You mother’s mouth is ALWAYS open!
The Great_Black President 11 months ago
Or it could be a funny:
John comes home and pats his dog on the head
John: Hi Farley!
John walks into the living room and pats his son on the head
John: Hi Farley!
kamoolah 11 months ago
They are a family. The Pattersons consist of John, Elly, Elizabeth, April and Cousin It.
ktrabbit 11 months ago
Ugh. He looks like an anarchist. I love a well-groomed beard, but he just looks scruffy.
Asharah 11 months ago
What difference does it make how he looked growing a beard at college Elly. Nobody who knows you is there.
JanLC 11 months ago
Another proof today that Elly’s scream on Sunday was unwarranted. She already had seen him when she appeared in the door of his (non-messy) bedroom.
mindjob 11 months ago
He’s auditioning for the part of Jesus in the school play
HodgeElmwood 11 months ago
Mike time-traveled to the 1960s and liked what he saw.
Tina Rhea Premium Member 11 months ago
Mike’s growth looks pretty good. Someone commented on his 19-year-old kid brother’s facial hair that it looked like a cat could lick it off — Mike’s is better than that!
jbruins84341 11 months ago
No, Mike, you miss the point as usual. Your mother is not asking if you want to shave. She is telling you that you will, unless you want to eat elsewhere.
RebaLioness 11 months ago
He looks like his uncle Phil
mistercatworks 11 months ago
No, he looked terrible with an almost-beard for six weeks. Now he looks like someone with a manly beard growth. I could never get beyond almost-beard so I gave it up. :)
USN1977 11 months ago
Michael looks like he joined the Dixie Mafia.