Evil Scotty

About once a year I grow facial hair around the mouth/chin area. I don't know what you'd cal it. A circle beard maybe. It's not very full and never is. It's kind of reddish. I keep it for a few weeks at most because I eventually get tired of scratching it, catching food and drink in it, and scrunching the upper lip part up against my nose. Every time I shave the whole thing off, I look in the mirror and think, "Ah, that's who I'm supposed to be!"

It's sort of a cliche in different types of entertainment to introduce a long-lost twin or alter ego type of character that looks a lot like or exactly like the good guy. Often the only noticeable difference is that the bad lookalike has a goatee or some sort of facial hair that allows the audience to distinguish between the two. Eye patches and scars are alternatives.

When I lived in Virginia I started telling coworkers that the Scotty with facial hair was Evil Scotty. Nothing about me actually changes except for the chin-scratching. I don't act evil or daring or more this and less that. For whatever reason some people really like it. One person told me I looked "rakish" with it. The girl who swiped my ID at the gym today has seen me a bunch, though I don't think we've ever said anything to each other outside of hello. She said, "You look a lot different with the" and twirled her fingers around her chin. So I guess people have taken notice. Evil Scotty is certainly noteworthy, if not more likable than regular me.

The original plan was to keep it until I fly out for a wedding at the end of April. I'm not going to know most of the people there, so maybe to them Evil Scotty will be the real Scotty. Who knows, I may create an entirely new back-story to go with my alternate look. I guess I'll see how it goes and make a decision later.

(NOTE: I will not be taking a picture and posting it online. That would just be creepy.)