Friday, August 14, 2009

Being Old Sucks


I am 43. Usually I don't feel old. Then, I go to work where there are 128 people in my dept. the average age is 33.4 (the median is 29.8) and its 60% women. There are FIFTEEN people that I work with that hadn't had their first birthday when I started my career at this company. And this wasn't my first job.

So, this year I started dying my hair. I use women's hair dye (the cheapest I can find) rather than men's. I tried that men's stuff once and it lasted about a week. The one thing I did like about it is the gloves are bigger in the men's dye. I have to really be carefull not to rip those little gloves that come in women's hair dye boxes. Other than that, its just a pain in the ass to leave that crap on your hair and moustache for 25 minutes and keep it off your skin.

There was a time in my life when I would try to keep stuff like dying my hair a secret. It is more fun to just make fun of it.

6 comments:

toomuchcountry said...

Your body may be 43, but your eyes scream 17 - like when you saw Phoebe Cates coming out of the pool for the first time.

Zach37082 said...

I am proud to say that @ 45, I don't dye my hair.

Jason said...

Don't worry. Although you are 40, you haven't acted like you are over 20 for years.

Lois and Jon said...

We called it "hockey hair" when I was in high school.

Jay G said...

I thought I noticed something youthful and vigorous about you the other day that I couldn't quite pin down.

RJR said...

In your youthful days you could have been mistaken for Paul Reiser.