"I don't know why you cut your hair so short," Allie said—as always, mistaking me for someone who actually asked for feedback. "It's only now looking decent. And you should shave your beard off, too."
"Actually, I was thinking I might shave my head entirely. How do you think that would look?"
"Good god, no. Barry wants to do the same thing. It'd look awful. What is it with balding men your age wanting to shave their heads?"
Two words: Michael Jordan. When we're 80, men our age will still look to His Airness for our fashion cues. Now, I'll readily admit that my shaved head wouldn't look as good as Michael's, but the principle is the same: if you can't grow hair where you want it, take control of the situation. Be like Mike: nuke the entire site for morbid.
Or is that spite talking? Whichever, I'm thinking about it. Allie being so emphatically against it promotes it from mere "passing thought" to "life's dream."