Jul 19, 2005 21:28
I have never been a hairy person, I don't even need to shave/wax my legs, my arms also hardly have any hair on them at all. But over the last couple of months I have noticed I have started to sprout hair in odd places. I guess this sort of thing has to be expected once you are the other side of forty. I have about four hairs on the outside of each wrist and on the second joint of my middle fingers. I have to scan the outer reaches of my forehead for stray eyebrows and my chin for odd stray hairs. It is very cruel that men lose their hair as they get older and we get more. A good friend of mine has such hairy legs that she often blocks the toilet trying to flush it after having shaved her legs over the bowl. Also, I now have dry skin on the soles of my feet, my brother-in-law has suffered with this for years and confided that he doesn't bother with pummice stones and the like any more, he sits in the garage with his feet on a box and my sister-in-law gets rid of it with the electric orbital sander (you must only use fine grade sand paper apparently).