Appearances Can’t Be Deceiving
In the late 80s, my uncle looked like a big, hairy biker guy, despite being a very big teddy bear. He had the ZZ-Top beard and long hair, and perpetually wore a bandana like a headband.
He was pulled over for speeding or some minor infraction and decided he wanted to go to court to fight it. He decided nobody would give the time of day to a dirty, biker-looking guy, and went and cut off his hair and beard, which hadn’t been cut in the better part of a decade. My mother didn’t even recognize him clean shaven, it had been so long.
He showed up in court — my mom and I, a child, tagged along for some reason — in a suit, with short hair, clean shaven….
Only to find out the judge assigned the case was blind.
And nobody in our family has let him live that down!
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