The last time I was in hospital for surgery, I was fretting over family members needing me to be there at home, so I got myself off the press-the-button painkillers asap, and went walking around the hospital floor and up and down the stairs without delay to demonstrate how ready I was to whizz off home. I couldn’t risk the “I’ll be as curmudgeonly as possible” strategy!

 

It's worked for me. Admittedly I have only been hospitalised twice in my adulthood and once as a child. Curmudgeon worked the last two times.

 

It's probably a gender or hirsuteness relationship.

Quite possible. I have double-checked and can confirm I have no moustache or beard.

 

 

 

I have both in abundance. As well as back, chest, arms, legs...

Your arm has a moustache?

 

Welk, now I cannot help envisaging a handlebar salute.


@davewil1964 wrote:

I have both in abundance. As well as back, chest, arms, legs...


You had to mention the back, didn't you? For goodness sakes, I nearly just lost my dinner. Anything but the back!