I’m glad you didn’t ask if his mom has a beard 
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Nope, my mum still has all her hair.
So did her dad, at 90 years old.
My understanding (from Psych 101 a million years ago, had a young, balding prof) is that you look to the mom’s brothers, not her father. So your uncles, if any, or her maternal uncles. Because it would have come from her mother, not her father.
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That makes sense. Sadly, she has no brothers, so I guess I shall just have to accept whatever fate life throws at me.
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No no, it checks. No brothers: no hair.
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Big Z is who I was thinking of, but Kroc had had some gnarly stuff too.
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My dad says he can grow a beard but, he rocks a mustache. Both of my uncles can grow beards.
More steak will help your beard.
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My grandfather went completely bald in his mid twenties (?) and always kept in his wallet a portrait photo of himself at 19 with a lush set of hair. For the rest of his life whenever he’d meet someone for the first time, he’d pull out the photo in order “to show them how he actually looked like”.
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Hey! Let me hold out hope!
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Oh yeah - Not sure I though of Kroc first. Maybe because I watched the training video where it happens.
Which to be fair it a lot less dramatic than you might think. He just ditches the bar and hold his leg.
I’m not bald but my wife has photos of me on queue. I think it’s more of a ‘just so you know, what you see today isn’t what I bought into’ type thing 
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Gotta buy a new gun lock…
My wife has a history of not reading cues and just blurting things out loud, alerting the world to what I was trying to silently convey to her. Anyways, I had my glock out to clean it and rotate rounds into different mags so I keep the followers in the mags working fine, and I locked it up and put it back up top in our closet, and it’s got a word combination lock on it. My wife remarks that she’s forgotten the word combo while sitting in the same room as the kids, so I go and whisper “Dart” into her ear and walk away, before she yells “LIKE D-A-R-T?!?!” at me halfway across the house. Before I can get the “WTF” out I hear my youngest say “What’s D-A-R-T?” Which, to myself, I’m thinking, “the first combination you’ll try if you ever find my pistol case.”
I’ve been meaning to order a safe anyways, guess now’s the time…
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I identify. My wife, God love her, has literally done the “ow! why are you kicking me under the table?!”. I used to try to get on the same page about cues but I’ve since accepted that that’s something on which we’re never going to sync up.
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We do that a lot too, the wife and I.
I started using messenger because I get insanely frustrated trying to decipher her whisper/exaggerated silent mouthing of words thing.
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Totally. It’s not a point of friction for us anymore, but I definitely mentioned to her that, in the future, this is the one thing we keep secret above all other things in the world.
Haha, maybe we should do that - I’m usually the one mouthing things to her!
We also struggle with the inverse: she’s trying to tell me something on the DL but I’m already aware of the thing and am frantically trying to signal “they can still hear you”. We tried using a blanket code word for a while but it never stuck. We pretty much just save sensitive topics for the car ride home now. Though that’s also problematic because my daughter has just reached the age where you never know when she’s going to randomly parrot something she heard us discuss.
It’s funny. For a dozen plus years, Me and my buddy would take down massive oak trees over houses and whatnot using cranes and all kinds of other difficult and complicated procedures using a couple of hand signals, and a couple quick barks or words.
5 minutes at home with my wife and kiddo when he was a toddler and I’m questioning everything I ever knew about communication.
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Oh man. The shear volume of times that has happened.
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Totes - if I didn’t think I could keep my kids out of my gun safes I’d seriously consider getting rid of all of it.
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