... on discovering a grey hair in one eyebrow this morning.
Tell me, blogosphere - at what stage should I give up the fight? And how do you deal with this particular indignity of aging?
- Is that what I think it is?
- What the...?
- No, I mean, what the...?
- You have got to be kidding.
- Where did that come from? It wasn't there yesterday - was it? Or has it been there all week, all grey and wiry in plain view and - oh, the horror - everyone else has noticed but nobody has wanted to tell me?
- I'm too young for this shxt.
- Should I pull it out? *Reaches for the tweezers*
- Should I leave it? *Puts the tweezers back down*
- Blink. Breathe. Take another look.
- Shxt. It's still there.
- I'm going to pull it out.
- No, wait! If I pull it out, will 2 grow back in it's place?
- I don't care. If I leave it, it will just get longer and longer and take over my face.
- OK, I know that doesn't happen with my other eyebrow hairs but this is new, this is alien. I have no idea how this blighter might behave.
- I'm going to pull it out.
- But - is that sensible?
- I mean, am I going to pull out all the other grey / white hairs as they appear? Because if I do, eventually I will be left with no eyebrows at all...
- Get a grip, woman. It's one eyebrow hair.
- I could dye it...
- No, don't be ridiculous. Dye all my eyebrows for the sake of one grey hair? I don't dye the hair on my head and there is a lot more than one grey hair in there...
- Yes, but this is different. Somehow.
- Pull it, pull it, pull it!
- There. Doesn't that feel better?
- Stop checking, woman! It's gone. The sneaky little...
Tell me, blogosphere - at what stage should I give up the fight? And how do you deal with this particular indignity of aging?