Sly Bald Guys Forum
Discussions About Being Bald => Bald Stories => Topic started by: warhawk on August 07, 2008, 03:12:25 PM
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hello fellow chrome domes: just wondering... how often do U C a toupee/wig/hairpiece/rug? i probably average two wigs a week. :D matter of fact... i just witnessed one 2day. i was in line waiting 2 purchase something and this middle-aged guy was wearing the "rug" with a baseball cap covering it. man... it was horrible. :/O i know his noggin' was "burning" like fire with this florida heat. :/O
so... how 'bout U? how often do U C a toupee/wig/hairpiece/rug? once a week? twice a week? what's your story?
WARHAWK O0
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Hmmmm I haven't seen so many I could number them by week, but I've seen plenty over the years for sure.
Going forward I think I'll print up some SBG.com cards and hand them to guys with crappy rugs. They might see the light after a visit to this place. I think I shaved my head like a couple days after finding this site. Although I'd be embarassed if it turned out they just had crappy hair and weren't wearing a rug!!
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I would say about once a month. More often during tourist season.
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i would say very very rarely. Over here most guys seem to have dumped them in favour of the sly look, and those that havent are sporting really nasty looking comb-overs. :/O
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i would say very very rarely. Over here most guys seem to have dumped them in favour of the sly look, and those that havent are sporting really nasty looking comb-overs. :/O
ditto!
or wear baseball caps :)
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You probably see more than you realize. I see them at least once or twice a week because I'm a barber that occasionally does cut-ins for hair wearers. I wore myself up until about 2 years ago (it was a family tradition) when I decided to take the plunge to sly. Not to toot my own horn too much but when I'm done with a customer, you really can't tell it's a piece. The materials you can get nowadays are top notch and basically undetectable. Of course maintenance can be a hassle it gets expensive, and sly is totally acceptable these days. But to each his own...
Anyway this is my first post. Cool site. It was actually one of my customers (not a toup wearer, but newly sly) who told me about it.
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Welcome, Admiral vin! Great intro.
I see them rarely in public.
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Welcome to the Forum Admiral !!
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You rarely see them now!
Welcome Admiral.
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Funny you should ask... ...Just today I was out to lunch with a client, and at the next table were Two guys obviously wearing rugs. One was probably mid forties with a pretty good color match, but obvious mismatch for texture. The other sported the "distinctive graying temples under a darker rug. The funny thing is that the fine looking lady that was with them kept giving me the eye and smiling at me. Seemed a bit flirtatious.
Don't often see two for one, but my wife has commented that since moving here, she has seen more bad toupees than she ever saw in the Chicago area.
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Welcome, Admiral !!!
By the way, I was watching "My Cousin Vinnie" the other day and could swear that Joe Pesci was wearin' a piece in that flick.
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I see one everytime our illustrious Illinois Governor is on television!
(https://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoinews.com%2FuploadedImages%2Fwhoi%2FNews%2FStories%2F10-11-blagojevich.jpg&hash=32d902a6c68c35186dbce0d7a8db98efddd8478c)
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wow. that is one inpenetrable helmet of hair. Suitable only for politicians and newscasters...
while I am someone's cousin Vinny I have never adopted a look that Italian. Although I think my dad had that same wig that Joe Pesci wore...
Thanks for the warm welcome!
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There is a guy in town who is about my age who has a rather tacky hair piece. His nickname is "Road Kill". Imagine that! :*))
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About 4 years ago, I was up in Eugene Oregon for a seminar for my job. It just so happened that there was a jazz concert in town that night that I wanted to go see so I booked a Motel and made a weekend of it. Upon arriving at the theater were the concert was being held I got in line, at the bottom of some stairs waiting for the people to open the doors. there were a lot of people ahead of me, when someone or something cause everyone on the stairs to fall down towards me. I'm a good size lad, so I tried to catch people before they hit the concrete or at least soften their landing.......after the fall, everyone was getting up, checking themselves out for injuries, thankfully there were none, when I looked down and at my feet was a "Full Head Rug". The guy behind me picked it up and tried to hand it to me saying that I had lost it. I took it from him and said thanks but it's not mine, but I knew who it belonged to...The doors opened up and we started to walk into the theater when out of the corner of my eye I saw the owner of the RUG coming towards me with his wife in tow.....He Thanked me for holding onto it for him, and I replied "This can't be yours....You look to good bald to want to cover it up!!!" He said it was, and I said "To bad, your missing out" and went to hand him the RUG.....He asked me what I meant and I told him how I felt about being "Bald By Choice". After I was done talking, he straightened up proudly, took this very well made and expensive RUG and threw it AWAY. Right into the sliding door trash can (the one you can't get into unless you have a key") and said thanks. As he turned to leave, his very good looking wife looked at me and mouthed the words "Thank You" to me..........
After the concert, I went to a bar up the street and they were there..........They asked me to sit down with them, and they proceeded to ask me all kinds of questions about me being BBC. I answered them honestly, when his wife turned to him and said "I told you you were a handsome man bald, but it took another man for you to believe it".
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I would say I rarely see a rug. The guy down the hall from me at work used to have one, but not long after I went SLY last Summer he showed up SLY.
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Welcome to the Forum Admiral!!! Post up an intro in the Introduction thread if you haven't already!
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Great story SLYinGlide!
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Great story SLYinGlide!
I agree.....terriffic story you have there SLYinGlide... O0
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Great story SLYinGlide!
I agree.....terriffic story you have there SLYinGlide... O0 yeah that gave me a laugh.....plus you helped the guy
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i very rareley see a wig, but one of muy uncles in germany has been wearing toupees since the 1970's, he still wears the touppess from the mid 1970's, those by the way look very, very ugly
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While the sly look is very common here in Vegas, it's not hard to spot insecure guys who think they look better with pet poodle on their head. Head out to any hot spot and it's like shooting fish in a barrel.
The best of the worst rugs I've seen was on the General Manager of one of the car dealerships my former employer owned in the LA area. It was so bad that it was all the other members of my team could do to keep from laughing everytime they saw him. One day it was extremely humid and by mid afternoon the rug had started receding and the front of it was even with the front of his ears. I don't know if someone mentioned it or he saw himself in the mirror, but by the time we left that day the rug was back to it's "normal" position.
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At Wal-Mart quite often. Check this one out from peopleofwalmart.com
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Classic. I just wanna go up and hand him a HeadBlade.
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What are you talking about? It looks perfectly normal. Oh wait, that's not a yarmulke :*))
Red
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oy vay
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One of the juvenile officers from the PD was bald as a cueball on top, to his credit.....no combover. But one year, I think it was about '94 or '95 he lines up 4 weeks of vacation and 2 weeks of holidays consecutively. People kept asking him why 6 weeks all at once and he said that he was vacationing to some exotic locale. So for a month and a half nobody sees this guy until one day he shows up with a full head of hair. Problem was that the color was totally off, dark brown, and the sides and back were salt 'n' peppa brown but not the same brown as the rug. Man, did he have to take a bunch of $h!t when he came back.
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I have a good friend who has a "rug" and I have never said anything -I would never hurt him and I think he thinks that I have never noticed because it is a "real good one" and he has it styled regularly - - - -
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I used to see one every day -- when I looked in the mirror! Agree with previous post that good ones are pretty undetectable. When I went sly and told my close friends that I got tired of wearing a hair piece -- they all say "shut up, you didn't wear a hairpiece". But I also spent up to $700 / month for my fur.
There are days when I think about getting a sandwich board and walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the local hair club -- if I can help just one guy not go down that path then I would consider it well worth my time.
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I have a friend who has a "RUG" and he thinks that no one knows - - -I told him about SBG and he looked at me as if to say: " what are you telling me for?" and it looks so bad - -I can spot a "rug" a mile away - - - started a few years ago when I started to get the "no grow zone" in the back of my now shaved melon - - - - -