Why do we have ears. The ear is a marvellous piece of engineering. It's shape helps funnel sounds into the canal in the inner ear, through the membrane, picked up by the delicacy of the Incus and the Cochlea, the sound waves are now converted into electrical impulses and then transferred by the nerves to the brain to be identified.
So the ear has a purpose but I have gleaned a more practical use by the female of the species, that of repeatedly hitching their 'hair' behind the ear using, it as if it were an appendage. The hand repeatedly flicking or lifting their beautifully coiffured hair out of the face to be held for a few moments before cascading down again and drawing a curtain on their features. I often think that it must be a tremendous distraction to have ones face continually clouded, the eyes peering through the strands whilst trying to keep their attention on what is happening around them. Perhaps they don't, their attention is turned inwards into that unfathomable female psyche that defies male understanding.
Of course men with beards are also prone to distraction, instinctively stroking the bearded as if it were a friend from which their knowledge is stored and from where they will pull the next witticism.
This brings me to 'bald, clean shaven' people like myself. We have nowhere to hide, not even our age, which is all too evident. With only a hat to ward off the elements I stride the street oblivious of how I look, well not quite but fully aware of my invisibility !!!
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