I spent my afternoon at a meeting.  The person who was facilitating the discussion was a man (an elementary school principal) who had THE worst toupee I’ve ever seen.  The toupee in the phototo on the left is similar to what he had.  Obvious, miss-matched, should be embarrassing, hilarious.  It actually was almost uncomfortable because you feel so sorry for someone who doesn’t appear to have a clue that he looks so ridiculous.  He just kept talking abou thow wonderful his school is how he is such a wonderful principal.  Really, I’ve rarely seen such a undeservedly confident person.

Unfortunately, we were sitting around a large conference table, and the toupee’ed school principal was sitting next to me.  He was very talkative and, as I said,  quite proud of what a wonderful speaker he is.  In fact, he’s the kind of person who completely monopolizes meetings. So, out of courtesy,  I watched him a good part of the 3 hours that the meeting lasted.   I wonder if he realized that I was studying his horrible toupee most of the time I was looking in his direction.   My thought was that I couldn’t wait to get home so I could write about his bad toupee.  The color was a fairly good match, but it was obvious that his own hair was straight, and the toupee was curly.  In the back, the toupee stuck out away from his shirt collar - making it even more obvious.  At his temples, you could see his real sideburns underneath the toupee.  And the toupee is not new.  He has apparently been wearing the same toupee for years. 

Since I sat close to him, I was able to see the toupee close-up, and I could see how awful it really was.  I guess educators don’t make much money but SURELY he could save enough money to buy a decent toupee.  Many years ago a friend loaned me a wig, and I wore it a couple times - just for the fun of it.  It was hot and felt miserable.  Yet this man wears a toupee every single day.  I can just imagine how uncomfortable that is.

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