What's Under That Hat?

I am about to leave work. I have got on my workout clothes and I am heading straight for the fitness center. I'm going to get the torture out of the way early today. But as I was dressing, I was thinking about the fitness center and some of its clientele, and some strange thoughts came through my head so I figured I might as well throw them in my goofball blog now instead of later.

There is a guy at my fitness center who wears a hat all the time. When it is really cold out, the hat is one of those beanie types. When it is a little warmer, the hat is baseball-style worn backwards. The other day I was on an elliptical when I saw him take off his jacket and remove a sweatshirt over his head, never for a second discarding the knit beanie on his head. He is about 30 years old and not a bad-looking guy, but I’d bet my painfully modest bank account that he is bald despite the fact that there is a little bit of hair rolling out from under these various hats.

Assuming he is bald, what good does it do to hide it? Let’s say that he meets an attractive girl there at the fitness center. He makes an impression and she becomes tentatively interested, in a romantic sense. When does he take off the hat to display his hairless head? How does he go about it? Does he warn her verbally first or does he just pull off the hat and unveil the baldness, like ripping a bandage off the skin?

What makes it a bit more puzzling is that a lot of women do not mind baldness on their guys. I know I don’t. I don’t like seeing dirty, greasy hair. A lopsided haircut is a little bit of a downer. But baldness really is okay. In fact, ironically, the need to continually wear a hat is itself kind of a turn-off. There is the obvious notion that the hat is hiding some secret, but there is also this vague sense that the guy does not have a lot of confidence in himself as a person. Otherwise he would display his head, be it bald or otherwise.

I have one other observation and that is; what goes through a girl’s head can get pretty weird, especially when she is looking around at fellow fitness center members as she is toiling away on an elliptical.