Why does hair in strange places grow so fast?

Yep and your beard grows faster, and your eyebrows go crazy. I suppose the departments which regulate such matters are running down. That’s probably why the elderly are plagued with so many maladies as various clocks start running faster or slower than regulation. I didn’t see it coming. Just another thing to be depressed about.

Embrace and enjoy each stage of life, because—and I speak from experience—the next stage will bring new and possibly far more serious concerns.

The barber surprised me last time with a couple of quick zips across the eyebrows. That was shocking! I have no eyelashes so that is no problems. Skin tags around my neck where I sweat a lot but I expect those and whacking them with nail clippers seems pretty effective. lol

Eye lashes seem immune to disorder. Perhaps because they’re so crucial. Aren’t they thicker as well? It’s peculiar, but my black eyebrows are orderly and well behaved. It’s the incoming grey ones that run amuck. This reminds me of the days when I was a kid. The guy who owned the barber shop where I got my haircut had a tea drinking habit. He also had plates of cookies (which got my attention). As a consequence, I couldn’t get enough haircuts. Anyway, I’m supposing it must have been because of the tea, but the elderly ladies in the neighborhood would hang out at the barber shop and take turns reciting their maladies to one another. This was back when I was 5 or 6, and it really made an impression on my dad who told me to pay close attention because as I went through life I would almost never see a crowd like that in any other barber shop in the world. He was right again.

Wait a sec. @majorrich YOU HAVE NO EYELASHES??????????

since chemotheapy it’s the only hair that did not come back. well, I have a couple few pitiful little stubbles is all.

Oh!. Thanks for telling me that. That’s the sort of thing that I didn’t catch, but at 2 or 3 in the morning would wind up rolling through my head and make me bolt upright in bed. (drives the wife crazy)

lol. gets me too.

I have been cutting my eyebrows since I was a teenager. I guess possibly they are growing faster now? Not sure.

I do have a few stray hairs in various places that all of a sudden I’ll notice one and it’s a half an inch long. How the heck did it get that long without me noticing? Ugh. I used to get quite a bit of thin hairs between my breasts and I actually miss them. They started falling out when my thyroid went haywire. For several years they would grow back when I was in normal range, but not anymore. Those hairs disappearing are a sign of aging for me just like the wrinkles on my face.

Where’s the tea? No. Where are the cookies?

Getting old really really sucks. Most parts are now obsolete or out of warranty.

God’s way of forcing us to be less superficial.

Actually, I don’t think they grow “so fast.” We just aren’t looking for them, so when we do find them they’ve already grown.
That thing about shaving your legs, or whatever, causes the hair to grow in thicker and faster has to be a myth. After 40 years of shaving my legs, I’d look like a Yeti by now, if it were true.

@Apparently_Im_The_Grumpy_One Who is “us?” The person who is having to get rid of unwanted body hair, or the people looking on who would find it distasteful? It doesn’t teach the onlookers a thing.