# Getting Older and Plucking Hairs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-older-and-plucking-hairs/781894>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 10, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-older-and-plucking-hairs/781894 "2017-03-10T18:39:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-older-and-plucking-hairs/781894/41 "2017-03-17T19:05:12Z")

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> [@Bullitt](#):
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> Early this morning as I was reading, I thought post #1 was maybe 3 weeks ago. Maybe a month. Because as I was reading my hand venture up to my ear and felt an OFH that wasn’t there after I plucked it with tweezers and wrote that first post. That ear had been cleared of all OFHs. Damn – it’s back!
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> It really bugged me so I got the tweezers and plucked it. Will I have to do this every 3-4 weeks for the rest of my life???!!’
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> But no, post #1 wasn’t 3-4 weeks ago. Post #1 was exactly 1 week ago. (sigh)

Yes, either you pluck the rest of your life, or you give up and join the OFs who pluck once a month or so and just live with all of the growth the rest of the time, making the middle-age and young farts wonder why you don’t take care of yourself better.

One day it will be their turn.

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