HAIR!

Every now and then I visit Target during my lunchbreak for a cheap hot dog and soda lunch. (I love hot dogs, but because they’re not really good for you, I don’t like buy whole packages to eat at home, so the occasional snack bar hot dog is a real treat.)

When I visit Target, there is very often a particular guy behind the snack bar counter who rings up my meal. He has a long, long dark ponytail. I mean long, long, practically down to his waist.

Have I ever mentioned that I really dig it when a guy has a ponytail?

Today, I went into Target, and there was a young man behind the counter….with very, very short dark hair. Military short. I looked at him and couldn’t figure out if ponytail guy had gotten sick of all the knots and trouble and decided to cut it all off. All that hair was such a part of his appearance that I honestly could not tell if this was him or not.

But if it was him, I was prepared to mourn. There was just something so cool about that ponytail.

Happily, as I passed by the snack bar on my way out a few minutes later (after buying cat food and yogurt), I saw ponytail guy! He was back behind the counter, ponytail still firmly in place. The other guy with the short hair I had seen was someone else, not him!

Now why do I mention all this? Only to say, I really dig it when a guy has a ponytail. Except for height, I think hair is probably the number one feature of a guy’s appearance that I will notice and decide whether or not I think he’s attractive.

And all this comes on the heels of another recent observation:

Last year Alabama did really, really well in football. But our quarterback, John Parker Wilson, (who was not a *great* quarterback, but he improved with time, and he was definitely adequate) has graduated, and now we are ready to break in a new starting quarterback, somebody-McElroy.

I can’t remember McElroy’s first name. And I can’t remember the way he looks either. I know I’ve seen pictures of him once or twice, but if I had to pick him out of a line-up, I just couldn’t do it. Why? Because he has short hair! And an unremarkable face. (My apologies to his girlfriend and his mother! I’m just telling you how I see it.)

But JP Wilson…well, anybody could have picked him out of a lineup. He had the HAIR. He has this sort of blondish hair that…well, never mind. Here are some pics:

And he has lips too, you’ll notice. The hair! The lips! Not that any of that has anything to do with how far or how accurately a guy can throw a football, but I’m just saying, there was no mistaking JP.

Okay, I think I’ve gone on long enough. The moral of this story is: Guys! Celebrate your hair!