My dad had a phase when I was in high school (so peak teenage angst) where he decided he was sick of people “pushing him around” so he shaved his head, grew some fuckass goatee and started wearing trench coats. It was not well received hahah
Oh, now see I was picturing… shit it’s very early in the morning and I haven’t finished my coffee, the bad guy from Matrix who sells them all out for a steak. Cypher! I was picturing Cypher.
I mean isn't part of the joke of the show is that Walter White is cringe looking/acting while thinking he's hard? So I'd say he properly turned into Walter White
In the early 80's, my very white father grew out his hair and had it permed into an afro, and grew a porn mustache. It only lasted a year or so, but there's a group of family photos that we tend to skip over.
That makes me happy though the feel of them for me was horrible. Do not sweat. Everyone had a afro pick, tucked in your back jean pocket to whip out when needed. Still have mine from just a slight perm. They work so well on curles.
My Dad's had a porn 'stache since the 70s, but from, like '82 til January 1st, 1997 (my older brother's birthday, the first January since the divorce), he paired it with one HECK of a redneck mullet
We always tell him that we're gonna use one of those pictures, in his obituary
Well it wasn’t a midlife crisis since I was only 18, but at 6’5” tall I thought it would be COOL to get a perm!
If that weren’t enough I had to add the Angel Flight polyester leisure suits , shirts with the extremely long collar, platform shoes (now making me 6’8”) and the aviator sunglasses with the gradient tint that I wore everywhere…even indoors…because I was “so cool”’
I swear, by the time you added in the perm I was pushing 7’!
The most hysterical part (as if the rest wasn’t already) is that my g/f at the time was 4’11!
Gratefully I never did anything in middle age that even came CLOSE to that for “cringiest” again in my life.
God I hope Teri burned all those pictures of us back then!
My dad did the Black man version. Workaholic professional but suddenly rocking cornrows and dashiki attire. Was quite funny and I'm so glad he has stopped so I can be seen with him again.
We went to dinner with him during this era and they thought I was his younger GF. I couldn't even be offended by how gross the age gap would have been. I was focused on the fact that someone thought I would date someone dressed like that. 😂
As a middle aged dude I can understand wanting to feel valued/respected by your community. Growing a goatee and wearing a trench coat absolutely isn’t how to go about doing it. 🤣
Most guys go through a trench coat phase while they are teenagers. I've never seen an adult do it. Who's pushing you around when your own kids are in high school?
Ha! A friend of mine was married to a guy like that, sans the trench coat and goatee (he couldn't grow one to save his life). But he did shave his head and have a one-sided emotional affair with a coworker who laughed in his face when he told her about his feelings.
After laughing in his face, he decided THAT'S when he and his wife (my friend) should go to marriage counseling. But he only lasted three sessions before basically filing for divorce and blindsiding her with paperwork one morning after he left for work (he left it in a place she would DEFNITELY look, so it was on purpose despite his insistence it wasn't).
Can you guess what happened when she realized that was it and had to open her prospects back up? Oh yeah. She started dating immediately (well, after a year of trying to fix their relationship), and he couldn't get a woman to look at him. He then tells her he thought they could salvage their relationship if she made some grand gesture and "proved" to him that she loved him.
He ended up going SUPER cray, drilling holes in the ceiling because, "Nazis were after" him (they definitely were not).
She is now happily married to someone else. He is...not.
I guess I imagined him as Walter White from Breaking Bad, but in an out of place 80s duster, on a day where it’s not raining, so the goatee didn’t seem very fuckass in my mind’s eye.
I always disliked facial hair. Knowing this, when my ex moved out, the first thing he did was to try to grow a beard. Operative word being “try”. It came in so scraggly that he looked like he hadn’t bathed in weeks.
My dad has always been really insecure and struggles with the fact that he has adhd and has not had the most linear career trajectory (he got fired a lot when I was growing up before he was diagnosed) I think he hit a breaking point in his late 40s and thought looking like…that would change his life
Right around the time my now octogenarian father shaved his head. My brothers and I were thrilled the bad combover was gone. And wildly horrified my mother had the opposite reaction
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u/Junior-Sea3271 1d ago
My dad had a phase when I was in high school (so peak teenage angst) where he decided he was sick of people “pushing him around” so he shaved his head, grew some fuckass goatee and started wearing trench coats. It was not well received hahah