Hair: grow it, show it

In the last two days, I've drawn an unparalleled number of compliments on my recent haircut. One person even went so far as to say that it was my best haircut ever. I'd say that two out of every three people I know have said they really like it.

Curiously, this is the same haircut I always get and I don't understand why everyone is only now just noticing. For comparison purposes, this is what I looked like immediately before my haircut:

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And here is what I look like now:

The only explanation I can think of is that since I now do not live with my family nor do I have a girlfriend, I don't have anyone hassling me to get a haircut every six weeks, as I used to in my salad days. This last time I went three months without a haircut, so my hair roughly quadrupled in length. Thus, I looked pretty awful (apparently), but because it happened at about the rate of hair growth, no one noticed enough to say anything to me. Until now.

I ask of you, my friends, to please let me know when I need a haircut. Clearly, I can't be trusted to know myself.

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