My husband has discovered that when you have a beard—at least where we live—people feel that they simply must comment on it... whether it's a General Authority's wife telling him that she loved it, or our server last Friday at Chili's saying, "Hey, I get to serve the guy with the beard!" While my husband mostly laughs it off, he did wonder out loud why people seem to feel it necessary to make reference to his beard. I doubt that our server would have said, "Hey, I get to serve four fat people tonight!" Or, "Hey, look, it's a tall skinny guy with his much shorter wife!"
Luckily for my husband, most of the time people react very positively to the beard. I had several women in my old neighborhood tell me how much they loved it. Which only served to inflate his ego, but that's ok. :)
In case you were wondering, he picked this photo. 
6 comments:
When I was young I remember some friends at church talking about my dad's beard so this post really cracks me up! He looks great!
Hey, of all the things he could do to stand out in Utah County, a beard is definitely the most innocuous and safe. And so long as he refrains from storing chicken bones or other not-so-tasty treats in it, it's fine by me. I don't know that I really remember what he looked like before. Hm.
the beard is sweet. my word verification is jackads. that's cool too.
As his Mom, I remember waiting so anxiously for hair to appear (on the top of his head). It took over a year. Maybe he's trying to compensate for for all that time he was without hair :)
Sam's dad had a beard FOREVER!! When he shaved it oh, maybe 8 years ago or something, Sam's younger brothers realized they had NEVER seen their dad without one. It was pretty funny. Mudrick boys love to play around with facial hair, so we're pretty used to it around here. Although, my kids get their uncles confused when 2 of them have beards!
T, you don't know me but I was a missionary with A in BC. He probably shouldn't call himself grizzly if he doesn't want to deal with beard comments. as for me, i think its okay, mainly because its utah but if we lived in the deep south in a trailer park, i'd probably not be as okay. Brad York
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