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<bg> Movember is a sponsored charity gig where you start with a clean shaven face on November 1, and groom a moustache over the month. Proceeds go to mens health charities, including prostate cancer research.</bg>
So, I've had a full beard for 17 years. Yeah, my face-fur was almost old enough to vote. I was a teenager the last time my face was naked.
Some of my coworkers have been encouraging me to do movember, and they all said they'd sponsor me, and it would all be great.
So I agreed.
No big deal, really. A naked face was weird to start with, and my two pre-school daughters were quite tentative about the strange person kissing mummy for a while, but it's all sorted now. They like kissing my cheek just after a shave, but not so much just beforehand.
<rant type=minor>
The suck comes from those coworkers who wanted me to grow the mo.
Of the 13 who promised to sponsor me, only 4 have actually done so. And my landlord (yes, you read that right, my *landlord*) told me to put in $100 for him and take it off the rent. That makes him my single largest donor and equal to the three most generous of the workmates who have actually coughed up the cash.
I've reminded the others, and they've fobbed me off with vague promises to donate, but it just seems to be mildly sucky behaviour to me.
Dammit, if I have to spend a month looking like the pool cleaner from some 70's porn flick, they should have to put up what they agreed to.
</rant>
So, I've had a full beard for 17 years. Yeah, my face-fur was almost old enough to vote. I was a teenager the last time my face was naked.
Some of my coworkers have been encouraging me to do movember, and they all said they'd sponsor me, and it would all be great.
So I agreed.
No big deal, really. A naked face was weird to start with, and my two pre-school daughters were quite tentative about the strange person kissing mummy for a while, but it's all sorted now. They like kissing my cheek just after a shave, but not so much just beforehand.
<rant type=minor>
The suck comes from those coworkers who wanted me to grow the mo.
Of the 13 who promised to sponsor me, only 4 have actually done so. And my landlord (yes, you read that right, my *landlord*) told me to put in $100 for him and take it off the rent. That makes him my single largest donor and equal to the three most generous of the workmates who have actually coughed up the cash.
I've reminded the others, and they've fobbed me off with vague promises to donate, but it just seems to be mildly sucky behaviour to me.
Dammit, if I have to spend a month looking like the pool cleaner from some 70's porn flick, they should have to put up what they agreed to.
</rant>
You have my sympathy.
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