"Do You Shave The Night Before Or First Thing In The Morning?"

A close shave sketch!

 Good "shave and a haircut" Monday morning, all bodies.

I knew the Eagles game would be a rout, but the Bengals/Chiefs was a win by "the hair of my "chinny-chin, chin!". it's always fun to be the Monday morning quarterback analyzing the game with friends. Sometimes though, there's a lull in the conversation and when there is, it is always fun to change topics.

Knowing that my fastidious friend always arrives at Giddy Up clean shaven with a perfect part of hair on the left side of his head, I had to ask him if he didn't mind me asking some personal questions. He said he didn't mind...

"I don't know what it is, but lately, I find that I have to shave my face every other day," I said.

"Do you shave the night before or first thing in the morning, 'cuz you always look so clean shaven?"

Eric mumbled something about the morning time.

"Well, if that's so, you must get up and at 'em pretty early," I said.

"I don't know," I continued. "Maybe, it is because the hair on my face isn't red anymore and isn't as easy to hide. My beard is kinda whitish now and stands out too much, nowadays!"

"I don't know, he said. Your face looks clean shaven to me, now!"

"Yeh, but two days ago... just two days ago, I look like a bum without a razor," I replied.

"Let me ask ya," I said. You wear glasses like me, do you shave with them on or off?"

Before he could answer, I said, "Cuz whenever I shave without my glasses on, I always miss a spot or two!

"But when I do wear my glasses, I can't see anyway because the glasses always fog up!"

Eric cracks up laughing as he agrees with me.

"Yes, they do have a tendency to fog up, but not that much because I wear spectacles instead of full blown glasses like you wear," he said.

"So, I said, you don't miss any spots, right?"

"I remember seeing, when I was a kid, old guys' faces and seeing spots of beard that they missed. I figured that it was rather rude to point that out, so I didn't."

"I try not to, Ben," he said.

"Yeh, I said. Looks good to me. You must use regular or facial soap like I do to soften up your beard some.. Like Dove soap!"

"Just sayin'."..

"No, I used regular shaving cream from a can," he replied, kinda hoping we'd get back to the subject of football.

"I don't use them anymore, I replied, because those foamy creams don't always protect the skin and I find that I always miss a spot when I use them, and...

"And, ya just know when I do, some little peach fuzzed punk will tell me, I'm sure.

Goes around, comes around...

First cup!

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