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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 16:57:33 GMT -5
I looked out the window at the man who cuts my lawn. I guess I don't look out the window often enough. He has gotten really gray. He looks really fit still (he works for UPS), but I started trying to calculate his age. I've had him for ten years. He had babies then. Do you think he may be getting prematurely gray? I do not want to have to keep finding new people. My gyn retired; he delivered my first child thirty-six years ago. He had just joined the practice a month before I started my visits. My general practitioner has a "closed" practice. My vet has hired multiple young associates (only one of whom I like). My dentist has a "partner" these days after twenty years without one. My eye doctor added partners a couple of years ago, but I've been going to her since my son was ten years old . . . so almost twenty-five years. She was literally the first female graduate of UAB's School of Optometry. Do you think buying the lawn guy some Grecian whatever will keep him mowing my lawn until I die at 102?
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Post by steph08 on Aug 3, 2013 17:04:14 GMT -5
I'm getting gray hairs at 27. My mom got them then too. My grandfather-in-law had completely white hair by his mid-20s. My MIL had completely gray by the time she was 35 or so. Just because you have gray hair doesn't mean you are old - and yes, I am saying this because my grays are starting to multiply! I am still young, dammit! I do worry about having to find a new eye doctor - I have been going to mine for 20 years and he now has kids in college and has to be in his late 50s or so. I stay with him even though he is out-of-network for my vision insurance because I don't want to change.
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Post by swamp on Aug 3, 2013 17:05:40 GMT -5
I am 43 and if I didn't have a regular visit with Miss Clairol on a monthly basis, I'd be all gray.
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Post by Malarky on Aug 3, 2013 17:06:24 GMT -5
I'm sorry. My lawn guy has nice eyes, nice hair, a great smile and really pretty muscles.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Aug 3, 2013 17:18:16 GMT -5
No need for anyone to be prematurely grey if they don't want to be. There is lots of really good products on the market even for men. As long as you don't go too dark and start looking like a goth.....Unless you want to, of course...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 18:17:04 GMT -5
So you prematurely gray people (I have almost none at age 59, but neither did my grandmother) . . . do you think he's good for another 43 years? He'll only be what . . . 72 or 75 then?
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Post by teen persuasion on Aug 3, 2013 18:20:29 GMT -5
If he's fit, who cares if he's gray? Since everyone and their brother dyes their hair these days, anyone who doesn't seems really old by comparison. I've been going gray since I was 15; I refuse to dye it, and lately I've had a few people ask if my 8yo is my grandson. My younger sister wants her DH to keep dying his hair because she thinks he looks 10 years younger. My FIL retired ~55, and moved South. After MIL passed away, he started up a handyman/yard care business. No other employees, he did all the work himself. He's in better shape than my DH.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 18:25:32 GMT -5
I am 28 and have grey hair; sadly I took after my mother.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Aug 3, 2013 18:32:01 GMT -5
I started going gray at 21, colored my hair for 15 years and gave up when the gray outpaced my efforts to stop it. At some point, it was too expensive and too time-consuming to keep coloring it. so I let it go. It's a steely gray color and everyone thinks it's cool. Frankly, I'm fine with it. Don't judge the mountain by the amount of snow on top. You might be surprised by the amount of fire contained within.
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Post by milee on Aug 3, 2013 19:05:00 GMT -5
No idea what color hair my two lawn guys have. They are so covered up from head to toe that I didn't even realize one of them was Hispanic until I went to talk to him and discovered he didn't speak English. These guys wear hats with shade flaps, neck buffs, long sleeve shirts and long pants. They look like they're going on safari in Africa. So maybe they're grey under there?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 19:15:58 GMT -5
No idea what color hair my two lawn guys have. They are so covered up from head to toe that I didn't even realize one of them was Hispanic until I went to talk to him and discovered he didn't speak English. These guys wear hats with shade flaps, neck buffs, long sleeve shirts and long pants. They look like they're going on safari in Africa. So maybe they're grey under there? Mine wears headphones so I have to stand in front of him and hope he looks up before he runs over me if I ever want to talk with him.
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Post by milee on Aug 3, 2013 19:23:25 GMT -5
Yikes!
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Post by teen persuasion on Aug 3, 2013 19:39:36 GMT -5
If he had kids 10+ years ago, they will be teens/college-age within 10 more. Family business?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 20:06:47 GMT -5
My hair kind of skipped a step. I had a white streak by 17. Now it's a mixture with silver, white, & a little black. I never really thought about it that much but my mom did tell me that her mom was completely grey by 22.
My oldest got his first grey hair in his teens. The youngest I don't know about because he does his hair. I don't get that with men but everyone to their own.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Aug 3, 2013 20:47:50 GMT -5
I have a grey streak on my left temple.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 22:19:09 GMT -5
If he had kids 10+ years ago, they will be teens/college-age within 10 more. Family business? DH and I actually talked about this tonight. Although I am trivializing the issue, I am really concerned that eventually I may have to find another lawn person. So we wondered if he was training his kids. Guess not since we have never seen the kids. There is an art teacher at school that does stuff like gutter cleaning. He is actually so awesome. He was on the roof cleaning the gutters. Wouldn't we like the skylights cleaned? Well, yes. There was a limb from the oak tree near our roof. Wouldn't we like that trimmed? Well, yes. He actually charged us $120 for the visit (we have lots of gutters that needed cleaning), and DH insisted on paying him $150. That limb would have been a whole more if we had had to call a tree guy, etc. Anyway, DH said he was hoping the yard guy was training his kids like the art teacher was. The art teacher's kids are out here on every job. Even if they are only doing clean up, they are here. Um, no. It's just the lawn guy, his ear phones, and the grass. I am doomed, and it makes me so sad. I LOVE my lawn guy.
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Post by Tennesseer on Aug 3, 2013 22:28:30 GMT -5
I looked out the window at the man who cuts my lawn. I guess I don't look out the window often enough. He has gotten really gray. He looks really fit still (he works for UPS), but I started trying to calculate his age. I've had him for ten years. He had babies then. Do you think he may be getting prematurely gray? I do not want to have to keep finding new people. My gyn retired; he delivered my first child thirty-six years ago. He had just joined the practice a month before I started my visits. My general practitioner has a "closed" practice. My vet has hired multiple young associates (only one of whom I like). My dentist has a "partner" these days after twenty years without one. My eye doctor added partners a couple of years ago, but I've been going to her since my son was ten years old . . . so almost twenty-five years. She was literally the first female graduate of UAB's School of Optometry. Do you think buying the lawn guy some Grecian whatever will keep him mowing my lawn until I die at 102? You've 'had' him for ten years? Maybe that's why he has grey hair.
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Post by Baby Fawkes on Aug 4, 2013 0:48:06 GMT -5
I'd like to think that I have a decent body... but I'm definitely in the prematurely bald category. Luckily I went through chemo and my hair never recovered properly so I'm one of those that keep it deliberately shaved, but DW and I know that if I was able to grow it, it would probably only grow on about 80% of my head . Early grey, early baldness, I have sympathy. Besides, isn't it the female species that induced the stress for either to occur? (ducks for cover)
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Post by happyscooter on Aug 4, 2013 7:01:38 GMT -5
I have been coloring my hair for so long I don't know what color it would be if I stopped. DH was bald by 30.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Aug 4, 2013 9:38:50 GMT -5
I've been going gray since I was 19 or 20, it runs in our family. I hear my grandpa was gray by the time he reached highschool. Also my 4 year old has 3 gray hairs Poor kid!
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Post by Lizard Queen on Aug 4, 2013 10:20:31 GMT -5
I got my first grey hair around 17. At 41, I have a lot on top, some on the sides, none in the back. I just color it every 6 weeks or so. Men just seem to tend to go au naturale in that department. Your lawn guy could have a good 10-20 years or more of lawn tending left in him, so I wouldn't worry about it.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Aug 4, 2013 20:37:46 GMT -5
i started going grey in HS. it got so much worse when i got married. from my roots, I'd guess I'm probably 50%+ grey and i'm freaking 33.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Aug 4, 2013 23:17:06 GMT -5
My guys came to the door one time to talk to me and I had no idea who they were. They didn't have their hats on and one is bald and the other one has a buzz cut. They look better with their hats on. The bald dude looks like a serial killer without his hat and the other guy didn't have his shades on and has beautiful eyes. The beautiful eyes guy (owner of the business) has taken care of our lawn for about 5 years now and I would never have recognized him had I seen him elsewhere. Now I would. I don't remember any gray but in Florida they only last so long in this heat regardless of age. It's going to be a sad day if I lose either one of them. They do a great job. Oh - and I don't have any gray. I have high lights!
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Post by Cookies Galore on Aug 5, 2013 6:47:04 GMT -5
DF had some gray when we met (he was 28). He's just about 35, has more gray, and it's sexy as hell!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 6:57:53 GMT -5
In the list of things to lose sleep over, I'd put this low on the list. Lots of people go grey early, as you can see from the posters in this thread. Since I have dirty blonde hair, I've never really looked for the greys as they are just "natural highlighting". For some reason I was looking in the car mirror the other day and the lighting must have been just right because, oh my goodness, I saw a bunch of greys. I'm only 40. My mom went grey after her chemo when she was in her 50s. My dad has black hair and didn't start getting greys until probably 65. At 72, he is still mostly black hair, but it's getting more and more grey every time that I see him.
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Post by wodehouse on Aug 5, 2013 11:03:37 GMT -5
I always said "gray hair is better than no hair".
...wish I had more grays
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Post by Phoenix84 on Aug 5, 2013 12:29:36 GMT -5
The only professional I've ever felt that way about was my opthalmologist. My opthalmologist's father was also an opthalmologist, and my mother saw him back in the 60's when she was a teenager. My opthalmologist was a brand new graduate when I was born and did the initial assessment and surgery to remove my lenses. So yeah, we go way back.
Other than that, I've had many different doctors. Ever since I turned 18 and stopped seeing my pediatrician, I haven't lived more than a few years in one location, so I've seen at least 3 different doctors in that time.
Some people just gray early. I'm 28 and I have a touche of gray around my temples.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 12:42:26 GMT -5
Mine too! Even more than he had on our wedding day. My cousin started going grey in 3rd grade!
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Aug 5, 2013 12:49:31 GMT -5
He looks really fit still (he works for UPS), but I started trying to calculate his age. Wait...are UPS drivers known for their fitness? I never woulda guessed that... Why do you think so many women shop on-line?
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Post by greeniis10 on Aug 5, 2013 13:03:53 GMT -5
Wait...are UPS drivers known for their fitness? I never woulda guessed that... Why do you think so many women shop on-line? Around here they are! And a couple of the FedEx guys work out at my gym. I love "King of Queens" but the chubby UPS guy is a strange sight to me...
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