# My husband shaved his mustache!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-shaved-his-mustache/552907>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 7, 2010, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-shaved-his-mustache/552907 "2010-09-07T11:07:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-shaved-his-mustache/552907/21 "2010-09-08T14:47:41Z")

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My hubby _talks_ about growing a beard (mostly as an excuse not to shave while we’re on vacation, I suspect), but he has a short but very deep scar on he lower left side of his face. A beard would have to get pretty lush before it would cover the scar.

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**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-shaved-his-mustache/552907/22 "2010-09-08T16:08:43Z")

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I keep thinking about shaving the beard/mustache, but A) my wife would (probably literally) kill me, and B) my co-workers wouldn’t recognize me–in their minds, I’m a beard with legs. My beard gets invited separately to meetings.

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**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-shaved-his-mustache/552907/23 "2010-09-08T16:26:19Z")

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My grandmother cut off half of grandfather’s mustache while he was sleeping to force him to shave it off. :dubious:

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**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-shaved-his-mustache/552907/24 "2010-09-08T17:48:47Z")

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> [@Zeriel](#):
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> I keep thinking about shaving the beard/mustache, but A) my wife would (probably literally) kill me, and B) my co-workers wouldn’t recognize me–in their minds, I’m a beard with legs. My beard gets invited separately to meetings.

I am awaiting the ‘I’ve been downsized…thankfully, they’re putting my beard on the payroll’ thread.

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-shaved-his-mustache/552907/25 "2010-09-08T18:47:05Z")

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> [@Zeriel](#):
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> I keep thinking about shaving the beard/mustache, but A) my wife would (probably literally) kill me,

Didn’t bother me any when hubby shaved his. It was never my idea in the first place (unlike the idea, for instance, that my hair is long only because he likes it that way; otherwise, it’d be _much_ shorter). He was the one that was always so fond of it. I think he’d had it for so long it became part of his ‘identity’, y’know?

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> and B) my co-workers wouldn’t recognize me–in their minds, I’m a beard with legs. My beard gets invited separately to meetings.

All the more reason to shave it! You can put it in a baggie and send it to meetings alone, then you won’t have to bother attending!

Be sure it brings you back a donut, though. 😃

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