After rocking a very large beard for some time, I had to shave because if I walked into a job interview looking like a goddamn hobo I’d never get the thing it felt right. Granted, I’ve only had 3.5 facial hair styles: a beard, no beard and the Civil-War-Era-Semi-Beard.
Like any one shaving off a beard does, I did it in stages. Until I wondered: what if I walked around looking like my friend Dave, who rocks the mustache/goatee combo and looks like he should have a rapier. A friend of mine said this to him once while drunk and he misheard as “you should be a rapist."
All that aside, I felt rather dashing. And then shaved it off because you can not wear this in DC without being capable of fighting off the waves of women throwing themselves at my fucking amazing facial hair roaming pack of coyotes the overwhelming shame.