Venturing out with my new found friend!

So its been twelve days since I started on my quest to grow the biggest, most ridiculous moustache (mo) that I possibly could to try to raise money for prostate cancer.

For the last eleven days I have been able to keep to the relative comfort of my humble abode,...but today......today I had to face the music & step out into the wide blue yonder & face my work colleugues for the first time! I wont pretend I wasnt scared, truth be told...I was petrified! How was my new upper-lip-warmer going to go down at work? Would anyone even notice? Would they think I was just trying to start up a Village People tribute band? Now I must at this point let you know what type of mo I have gone for....(I havent got any photos yet so you will just have to use your imagination)...I have plumped for the biggy, the mother of all mo's the handlebar!!!!

As some of you may know, hair on my face grows at an amazing rate, some people liken me to Homer Simpson in the rate of growth on my chin! I always have more than enough hair to warrant shaving every single day so, with eleven days growth behind it, I have a rather substantial plumage! With this in mind I new all to well that I was not going to be able hide this from anyone, evry single person I bump into is going to see the large hairy slug (ala Baldrick) stuck to my top lip. But I've known everyone at work for a while now & they were good friends, surely none of them would comment or worse still laugh at me.....would they?

Well I dont think it takes a rocket scientist to work out that I was going to be the laughing stock of the Therapy teams! With the style of mo I have opted for it could be said that I look like a number of stereotypes; american trucker, cowboy, gay pop singer or even (& when this one was pointed out I started to like the idea) a biker dude! With this image in my mind I set off for work (on my little scooter that reaches a max speed of 40....downhill). From the moment the white van driver missed a green light because he was laughing so much at my biker demeaner on a 50cc scooter, I knew today was going to be about other peoples amusement! Security gaurds, nurses, cleaners etc all could not stop staring, patients who havent even acknowledged my existance laughed out loud! Some people (my boss for one (thanks Sally)) tried hard to talk to me as if nothing was amiss, just incase I was doing this for fashion purposes! Probably the funniest reaction came from our rehab consultant Dr P, now Dr P always says hello to me whenever we pass in the corridor etc. On the occasion of him passing me today however he stopped did a double take, allowed himself to smirk but then straight away stopped himself just incase I took offense. He said the usual hello & promptly walked into the unopened door!!! It was priceless!

I have however survived the day & everyone now knows that I am doing this for charity & hopefully will sponsor me for the comedy they are getting at my expense!

If you want to sponsor me (Ineed all the help I can get) please click on the big blue button at the bottom right hand side of your screen & type in my reg number 145253

Thanks, I will be posting photos as soon as I can!!

T