The moustache project
The summer moustache project is well underway, and it is my first (intentional) moustache ever. High school lip down doesn’t count. Oh, I’ve had goatees before, and the moustache-and-chin Don Juan. But never just the Indian Standard.
Aside from giggling at myself in the mirror, the ’stache has some surprising benefits. Uncles and aunties are way friendlier on my evening walks. Big smile and nod of recognition. Because now I look like a respectable Indian man from the desh, not some punk-ass ABCD with white earbuds. Cops are less gruff, like motorcyclists who wave to each other. I might even have to keep it around when it comes time to raise startup cash.
And the other day my dad actually conceded a point in a discussion. ‘He must be right — he’s got a moustache.’ The lip hair is magic. Unlike hair hair, it takes, like, 8 hours to grow and can be parted with easily. Shed your neoteny, my clean-shaven brothas, and choose your own from the moustache matrix.*
* Use as directed. Not intended for dating. Female assessment: ‘gay, but sexy gay.’ Oh moochh, how Freddie Mercury changed you.
on Monday, August 3rd, 2009, 7:56 am in Fashion, Humor, Musings › 
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Lookin’ gangsta, Vij-ji. Hooray for moochies! I’m going to appeal to Mr. Moustache to go for the Veerappan.
arent you letting a moustache consume your personality
Ha! All the ABCD folks I know are so anti-mooch. Have fun. Good luck. Let us know how the ladies like it!
Man-ish, I’d suggest not going within 200 meters of a school zone with that blotch of mulligatawny soup on your upper lip.
nice. the guys in my school did this one year - with weekly progress photos!
interesting about the social ramifications - i wonder if that is also affected by the type of moustache - e.g. mangal pandey v. veerappan. also, does the mooch get in the way of eating? i’ve always wondered about that…
ak,
What? Do we eat with our meesai? Most people don’t even get any food on the upper lip, how can it get to the meesai?
depends on where the mooch is and what one is eating.
For a few seconds, the ’stache draws attention to a fine set of lips that might otherwise go unnoticed. And then I go right back to thinking about Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck, and I laugh.
My broseph’s had facial hair since he was 16. He periodically rids himself of it when he wants to look respectable or fly on a plane without getting searched for 20 minutes. But he’s never tried the mooch. Bold, yaar. ;)
One of my friends liked her boyfriend better when he had a mooch, because she said that way she felt she didn’t have to worry about other girls checking him out, fwiw!
abhe tapori … if it ain’t aiding you in getting some, get rid.
neoteny shed. went with the otto.
amen!