Beauty and the....

I used to have this co-worker...let’s call him Dave….because that was his name.  And he had gorgeous, naturally blond and wavy long hair.  When he took it out of his ponytail, he was the envy of all the ladies (and maybe some dudes).  I don’t have any pictures of him because we worked together during a time when people didn’t take pictures of themselves with their coworkers regularly.  But if you have ever watched Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Dave pretty much looked like the Beast after he turns back into a human.

DAVE!

He actually might have been the model for Beast according to rumors at his school, Cal Arts, a Disney school located in Valencia where most Disney animators were trained.  Read the story here, about another student who claimed her face was stolen for Disney's Pocahontas.

But, I digress. 

Dave told me how guys in neighboring cars would sidle up to his truck in L.A. traffic thinking he was a beautiful blond lady, but instead, would find the face of the Beast.  Haha!  Dude, that’s a dude, dude!  The power of that beautiful blond hair!  I have also had this experience when my hair was long; I am walking along, and some guy will be passing, having seen the length of my hair, and then turn to see my face as he is passing me.  I could sense that they need to see if the face lives up to the hair.  Well, perhaps some days I coulda been all

But probably most of the time, I was just