Oi Baldy!!!! Why does my Grandad still combe his 3 hairs

From Teddy to Bobby

Try to picture my Grandad in his 20’s. An English teddy boy, charmer, ladies man, living for the weekend. More Grease slicked through his jet back hair than a chip shop fryer. For example these two young men

Now lets age him by about 50 years, still holding on to distant youth my Grandad now sports the Sir Bobby Charlton (one of Englands most legendary footballers)…..

….What does that man see in the mirror?.

Still Convinced

As he did all those years ago, he takes his grease and his trusty comb and sweeps the several strands of hair over his chrome dome. His bald head gleaming through what little hair he has left. So what good does he think it does? Is he still convinced no-one will notice the cover up? A few years ago when it was thicker he may well have managed to pass it off at a stretch. Although he is not the only one of this senior generation who does it.

It’s a generation thing

To quote the this article i found http://sciencemags.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/psychology-of-comb-overs.html

Sociological thinkers (and people with a great deal of extra time on their hands) suggest that combover practitioners fall prey to the sorites paradox. Essentially, the sorites paradox describes how small steps that seem sensible on their own can lead to an absurd outcome. In the case of comb-overs, the victim may begin moving the part of his hair by a small amount to add fullness to a region of thinning hair. Only as the process of baldness accelerates does this become a futile attempt to hide a glaring patch of skin under the last few stragglers of hair.

So if this is to be believed then my Grandad is suffering from a complex he started years ago and he probably still believes it’s working. This comes down to a generation of men with thick hair who used it as a fashion statement years ago, yet still holding on as tightly as they can to what hair they have left. My Grandad is obviously still that young Teddy Boy at heart.

Baldy locks and the three hairs

Well my Grandad seems happy even if he’s convincing no-one, even when the wind picks up and turn his 3 hairs into antennas. Bless the old git.

I’ll leave you with this from The Baldy Man

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