But alas, I’d wake up covered in masking tape, which had by morning gotten all tangled up in my hair–and quite likely my orthodontic headgear. I tried a number of things to tame my freakish triangle.Īt bedtime, I’d take the hair on both sides and tape it down to my face, believing I could somehow train it to fall uniformly. If I tried to part my hair in the middle, it curled at the hairline, each side bending in its own rebellious pattern. My widow’s peak-and several other traits-stood in the way of looking like Susan Dey or any of the girls in my school. My role model at the time was actress Susan Dey, whose hair cascaded in perfect symmetry from the center of her hairline. When I was an adolescent in the 1970s, the fashion was for girls to wear their hair parted in the middle. I say unfortunately for two reasons – one, the belief, going back to the mid 1800s, that a downward point in one’s hairline, which resembles peak of a widow’s hood, portends early widowhood and two, I have always considered mine an ugly genetic deformity. Unlike most people, whose hairlines run straight across their foreheads, fewer others have a V-shaped point in the hairline in the center of the forehead. I’ve heard their shared trait described a number of ways, including “that Little Hair Triangle-thing That Drops Down In the Middle of His Forehead.”ĭoes no one remember the correct term for such a feature?

Much has been made of Congressman Ryan’s facial likeness to classic TV character Eddie Munster. You might remember, we’re both Fletch aficionados. I have two things in common with vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan.

Eddie munster and paul ryan look alike