Ear Hair

As you know I am not a big fan of ear hair.

It's just bad grooming.

There is no call for ear hair.

As men get older they may grow a stray hair inside their ears now and then. You buy tools to deal with this. It's important to come to terms with early this and manage it. I mean it.

So I hope this is not all racist, but in my experience many men from India that I work with grow lots of ear hair on the outside of their ears. This is a genetic thing called the Brundlefly Syndrome. It's passed down from the grandmother. No one at works talks about this. It seems to be culturally acceptable in India, and I need to get along with people at work, so I just don't make eye to ear contact with 95% of my team.

This is not really all well and good but I have been silently dealing with this odd cultural phenomena for years now. The other day though.....the other day it just got to be too much.

I get on the elevator and then this middle aged white American guy gets on after me. He is bald and kind of buff. He is standing in front of me and I can't help but see that area that connects his ear to his head. I do not know what this area is called so I will call it the ear connector area. His ear connector area is covered in hair. I gag and retch and gag again. I close my eyes, hope I am having a nightmare, but when I open them this is still going on. I gag again. I am standing right behind him and he hears all this with his creepy hairy ears and is justifiable concerned that I am going to throw up on him. The elevator door open and he quickly gets off while I rush to the bathroom.

WTF! This is not culturally acceptable! There is no history of Brundlfly Syndrome in bald white Americans. I don't care who your grandmother is. How the hell do you not know that your entire ear connector area is covered in hair?! Especially when that is the only hair on your head? God!

I am still totally traumatized. I have not been able to get back on the elevator. I keep having Brundlefly flash backs.