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Laura Babcock's avatar

Any midlife woman can tell you that panic plucking the rogue chin hair you just noticed while in a social situation where many many people are staring right at your face and judging your slightest imperfections, can rarely be accomplished in your car, or a closet, or a public bathroom without the appropriate tools to get a grip on that sucker (thus ensuring that it will be the only thing on your mind for the foreseeable future, until you get home to the tweezers, at which time you will forget to actually pluck the damn thing, ensuring that this scenario repeats). inquiring minds want to know, do you roll with tweezers?

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Thig's avatar

Tweezers, clippers, tide pens… we go out in the world prepared

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Laura Babcock's avatar

You are my hero. Surely an illustrated newsletter about the contents of your baggage could happen?

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Thig's avatar

Heather got me a “Murse” and I will definitely show this in a future newsletter

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Laura Babcock's avatar

also, holy rainstorm batman.

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Thig's avatar

Omg I just looked outside. It’s about time. Maybe we will get some cold weather after all???

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Amelia Adams's avatar

This is hilarious. I've noticed some rogue dark hairs as I get older and check myself in the rearview mirror every time I get in the car. (For some reason that always has the best light to see the little suckers.) But recently I discovered a THICK, WHITE mustache hair on one side of my upper lip! I plucked it immediately, terrified that I'm transforming into Santa Claus. But it was a genuine old man "whisker" type hair so this article made me laugh.

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Thig's avatar

yeah we're just hairy critters, still. Maybe in 2-3 millennia we'll be completely slicked up :D

I get them all the time, Heather is constantly yanking something outta me (unasked and violently). I guess the nice thing about being in my 50s is that everything is silky and wispy, now, so I got that going for me I guess :D

Glad the article made you laugh Amelia, the feedback is always heartwarming :)

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Michele Peters (she/her)'s avatar

What???? No mention of the most important travel tool to keep in your car? Car tweezers! (Because everyone knows that's the best lighting for finding the rogue sonovabitches.

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Thig's avatar

I carry a man-purse (or a masculine side bag. Whatever, I call it a murse). It has my sketch stuff, groom stuff and medical stuff (I had a heart attack a few years back, so I carry emergency meds just in case). Also it has prescription sunglasses, cough drops, 200-300 receipts shoved in it and a little multitool

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Michele Peters (she/her)'s avatar

Speaking of "multitool", (I probably should be embarrassed to share this, but I am going to anyway) for years I had a pair of needle-nose pliers in the bathroom for my rogue chin hairs. The cheap tweezers were crap and these just worked. Last Christmas, my husband put a high quality tweezer set in my stocking. LIFE CHANGING!

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Thig's avatar

That hubs is good people!

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Elaine R. Frieman's avatar

Eek! I hate the random hairs. I get a random super long one that is very blonde (odd since I'm dark-haired) in the middle (yes, the middle) of my forehead every now and then.

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Thig's avatar

We are twins, same. What the hell???

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