Rain

This is my picture for Illustration Friday the theme is rain. “Rain” was drawn with my gel-roller on the back of a flyer for a radio show I did recently, then colored in Photoshop.

This is Ed. He was my stepfather for about fifteen years. On Ed's first date with my mother he wanted to look cool. Fearing his bald spot would turn my mother off, Ed bought some spray on hair.

I don’t know if anyone remembers spray on hair, but it was a big thing back when I was a kid. Basically, it’s a can of spray paint the color of your hair that you put on your bald spot. It always seemed to work great on the TV info-mercials. Of course on TV no one ever got rained on.

So, as Ed was walking my mother through the rain to our door at the end of their date his spray on hair started to wash off. I remember peeking through the curtains out onto the front porch, hoping to get my first look at the guy my mom went out with. What I saw was this angry looking man with black streaks running down his face and my mother laughing hysterically. Sure Ed kind of made an ass of himself, but it must have worked because they ended up getting married.

Personally I don’t get the whole; I don’t want to let anyone know I’m bald mentality. Hair plugs look stupid, the only good toupee I’ve ever seen was on Ted Danson and I know someone that had hair growing off of their nose because the Rogaine they were using had dripped. If I ever go bald I’m gonna own that baldness and let everyone see my beautifully shaped head.

Have you ever covered a bald spot? How about covering me with some love?