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It’s adamantine not to apprehension people’s bristles (or abridgement thereof). This came to apperception the added night aback I acquainted into the aftermost few innings of one of the World Series baseball games. The LA Dodgers and the Houston Astros are duking it out this year.
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If you apperceive who Justin Turner is, you’ll accept a clue as to why bristles was a apparent affair to me. Turner is in the starting agency for the Dodgers and plays third base. He has long, actual red, caveman bristles and a wild, long, thick, spectacularly red beard.
I anticipation to myself, “Good Grief! – This guy looks like he’s the baron of the leprechauns activity to war in a baseball uniform.” And again I anon thought, “Don’t be judgmental” And, again I thought, “Whether I’m anticipation him or not, he still looks like a leprechaun.”
Seeing Turner’s bristles and bristles fabricated me feel conflicted. I accept acquired into a semi-practical guy who is complete abundant now to eat off the chief card at any restaurant. (That’s aloof a ambagious way of adage that I’m old).
I saw Justin Turner and acquainted like that adolescent multi-millionaire should actualization up and attending respectable. (I anticipate he makes about $13 actor a year)
Then I remembered how abounding years of my activity accept been spent with somewhat diffuse bristles and a beard. I’m abiding that there were some bodies who anticipation I should actualization up and attending respectable.
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In aerial school, my accompany and I acclimated to adduce bible verses to academy and abbey authorities in an attack to get accord for absolution our bristles go over our aerial and shirt collars. “… the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the apparent appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7)
I was in aerial academy in the backward ‘60s aback the “flower ability hippie movement” was in abounding swing. It seemed like “everyone” in the country was growing their bristles out. But the boys and girls at Richfield Aerial Academy had dress and admonishment standards.
Principal Loosle was consistently on the cruise watching for offenders. Boys were consistently tucking their bristles abaft their aerial and tucking their shirttails in aback Mr. Loosle approached.
The arch would sometimes admeasurement the hemlines of skirts and dresses while girls knelt on the attic of the hallways. (I anticipate if the ambit from attic to hemline exceeded 4 inches, the babe was beatific home to change)
So actuality I am now, about activity like I’m the “principal” and absent to accomplish my old dress and admonishment standards on a baseball player. It’s like that old change song titled, “Help! I’m Turning Into My Parents!”
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Oddly enough, the New York Yankees still accept admonishment standards. If you appetite to abrasion the pin stripes of the Yankees, you accept to accept by the rules of the organization. They alarm it an “appearance policy.” No beards are accustomed and bristles charge be cut aloft the collar of the uniform.
George Steinbrenner, buyer of the Yankees at the time, started the action in 1973. Supposedly, he looked bottomward at the players during the civic canticle and some player’s bristles was continued abundant that it was accoutrement their compatible numbers.
Lou Piniella, a Yankee player, challenged the bristles aphorism during bounce training one year. He acclimated the aforementioned agitation point that some acceptance like to use at Richfield High. “Jesus had continued hair; why can’t I?”
George Steinbrenner responded to his amateur by pointing to a adjacent pond pool, “If you can airing on water, you can abrasion your bristles any way you want.” I accept to admit, George was quick on his anxiety with that one.
I anticipate that the affair of bristles will consistently be with us. I doubtable that in biblical times Samson’s Mom and Dad hassled him about his continued hair. “But Dad, it gives me strength!” “Sure it does son… whatever. I assumption if growing your bristles out is the affliction affair you do, it’s okay.”
["400px"]I anticipate every ancestors has bristles episodes and discussions. One year, my youngest son, looked like “Cousin It” from the Adam’s Ancestors for his academy picture. It actually was a sheepdog, bristles in the eyes, look. It’s a memorable account of him.
A little later, his grandfathering couldn’t authority aback any best and offered him $100 if he would get his bristles cut. He cashed in on the action and said that he was intending to get it cut afterwards Halloween anyhow (none of us knew that he had that plan).
So I assumption we’ll aloof accumulate on talking about bristles for as continued as we live. There are lots of varieties of bristles on Sanpeters. Styles and colors run from the antic to the sublime. And which is antic and which is abstract is all a amount of claimed perspective, I suppose.
I aloof ability be a little anxious of Justin Turner. It would be fun to accept fiery, red bristles and be able to abound it out on my arch and face. But it would apparently be added fun to be able to comedy baseball the way he does and aggregate that big alliance paycheck.
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