Bill's brilliant but unpatentable ideas, number four.
Situation: I'm not particularly healthy, and after missing my bus stop (due to poor eyesight and darkness at the time) on December 27th I found myself over-reaching myself on the walk home and fell over, cutting my chin open as well as grazing my hands to the point of needing them bandaged for a week. Fortunately some passers-by were concerned enough to call an ambulance for me and I was well treated after that.
Problem: I have a beard (essential in the current weather) and this interfered with the stitching of my chin-cut. They cut enough of it off to be able to insert the necessary five stitches (strangely, when they removed them there were only four - no idea what happened to the last one). This did leave me looking rather lop-sided and I didn't dare to try and fix the shape for fear of accidentally removing a stitch too early. I've now readjusted my beard to something reasonable, if a bit too short for the current sub-zero weather.
Solution: Chin-Wigs. No, I don't mean those joke false beards with elastic going behind the ears, I mean proper hairpieces as well designed as the toupees meant for the top of your head.
Downside: this is probably covered by whoever patented the toupee. And a cheaper solution might just be a balaclava or a scarf - I wonder who patented those?
Problem: I have a beard (essential in the current weather) and this interfered with the stitching of my chin-cut. They cut enough of it off to be able to insert the necessary five stitches (strangely, when they removed them there were only four - no idea what happened to the last one). This did leave me looking rather lop-sided and I didn't dare to try and fix the shape for fear of accidentally removing a stitch too early. I've now readjusted my beard to something reasonable, if a bit too short for the current sub-zero weather.
Solution: Chin-Wigs. No, I don't mean those joke false beards with elastic going behind the ears, I mean proper hairpieces as well designed as the toupees meant for the top of your head.
Downside: this is probably covered by whoever patented the toupee. And a cheaper solution might just be a balaclava or a scarf - I wonder who patented those?