Join the club, mpb just seems to do everything it can to irritate a guy. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't ever laser it, far too much gray anyway to really provide relief from the sparse ever thinning grass on top. It has a totally different texture than it did even when I got rid of the combover, but the area that provided the hair for the combover doesn't even have a shadow anymore.
I am pretty regular on shaving, miss a day at most a week--Sunday if and only if I shave late on Saturday, but generally 7 days a week. But that one day, I can "trace" with my finger the outline of the top of the shadow easily--the top texture is that different.