My boss and I were in court the other day getting an eviction on a non-paying tenant (I manage a rental office).  As we sat in the pews awaiting our turn, I glanced to my right and couldn't help but stare at an old man across the aisle.  He was perhaps seventy or eighty, with suspenders, a non-existent hairline and huge bushy eyebrows.

When I say huge, I mean EFFING HUGE!

These things looked like two minks were playing hide-n-seek on his brow.  And the minks had stuck their little claws in an electrical socket.

In other words, when I say bushy, it's an understatement.  You know how, on political cartoons, they always exaggerate the facial features of whomever they're making fun of?  Well, imagine a caricature come to life.

You know how pregnant women or women with large breasts have back problems?  This guy probably visited a chiropractor every other day.

I felt like I was stuck in a Seinfeld episode.  I kept staring at these bushy eyebrows as visions of cutting them with electric clippers danced around in my mind.  

I wanted to laugh out loud and point, to show everyone around me, but we were in court.  It wouldn't have been proper.

You have to wonder what goes through this guy's mind every morning he gets ready for the day.  Is he blind to them?  Does he not see the way they curl around and jut out toward passers-by?  Does he at least try to comb them straight?

I have two rogue eyebrow hairs that like to grow longer than the rest.  I pull them out.  Did he do the same in his younger years?  Did he get tired of it?  Did they overwhelm him?

There are so many questions that present themselves when you see a medical marvel like this man.  I can only hope that it never happens to me, that I never grow uncontrollable eyebrow hairs.  I'll add this to my list of things I'll never do, right up there with runaway nose hairs and the dreaded comb-over.

Beware the bushy eyebrows.

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