The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #46743 Message #695767
Posted By: DonD
22-Apr-02 - 02:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Whats with the beards?
Subject: RE: BS: Whats with the beards?
Can anyone else brag on having a beard that's a moneymaker? I first grew mine in 1950 on a six onth European ramble. They were so rare then that I had to learn my first Dutch phrase in Amsterdam: "It's not polite to stare!" When I got home, my mother met me at the dock , having missed her bay desperately, and took one look and said, "Come see me when you've shaved so I can kiss you." The money? After years of volunteering as Sant Claus at a school for the multiply disabled, I got a gig at the oldest shopping center in the world (!) last winter getting my picture taken with hundred of the little (and not so little) darlings -- the only member of the crew who didn't have to don the shaggy wig. (I did use the pillow, though.)