No, that isn't disturbing. I have a whole head and face chock full of grey hair, and I'm ~17 years younger than you. That is disturbing.

It makes you look distinguished.

And when you get tired of hearing that, just shave off the beard.

Then you'll notice people saying it makes you look ten years younger.

I'm just saying.

You comb your beard? What for?

Interesting...I also have been going grey for years, since about age 12, now it's salt-and-pepper. Used to be confined to my head but there are more than a few on my chin. I'm only ~8 years younger.

Are any of you left-hand dominant?

The grey hairs in my mustache say to me "venerable and wise". I am careful to not ask what my grey hairs say to others.

I'm going beardless lately. Although it is a great way to hide my mounds of face fat, unfortunately it's almost all grey now. So I figure it took off 10 years but added 15 pounds. An ok trade, I guess.

Dean,

I am one year older than you. Try driving in the summer with the sun roof open and being shocked at how the sun highlights your white hairs. Fortunately, they just make my red hair look blonde. But I estimate about 10-15% white. Yikes!

I started getting grey when I had children. All of it on top of my head, so far about twenty hairs in two square inches. Completely un-noticeable to me, unless I center-part my brunette hair while wearing my glasses. Which is when I noticed them, prompting me to scream. My husband thought I saw a spider on my head. He laughed (and laughed and laughed) and told me that he had known for years. He's much taller than I am, with much better vision.

The weird part is that my hair doesn't go exactly "grey". It goes irradescent silver/white. If all my hair turns like that then I will look like someone wearing a sparkley white clown-wig. No kidding.

Hmmm, I first found a grey hair in my beard when I was 29. For years it was just a few grey hairs, spreading slowly, but over the past few years (I'm 47 now) the whole front part of my beard has gone pretty solidly grey.

On the sides and underneath my jaw, my beard remained a solid dark brown until quite recently. In fact, it was just the other day that I noticed for the first time (somehow must've overlooked it for months) that there's now a sprinkling of grey all through my beard.

The hair on top of my head is somewhat lighter and much finer. Like you, Dean, thanks to genes I'm in no danger of ever going bald. Over the past year or two, I've noticed a couple of grey hairs up there— harder to see, with hair that's so fine. But again, it was just the other day that I took a close look for the first time in months— I'll be, I'm getting a fair amount of grey up on top, too.

What I find amusing is that, even with my grey beard, I'm often taken for younger than my actual age. Genetics, once again— if I follow my dad's pattern, I'll be drawing my pension before I start to develop any wrinkles.

If you find it amusing when your entire beard is snow white and your headtop hair is still its dark color, that will be odd.

I started showing an occasional grey hair when in my 30s, but even now, in my early 50s, there is noticable salting only at my chin and temples. My hairline has receded only slightly, even tho my hair is almost always pulled back in a ponytail. My younger brother's hair is starting to thin in classic "male pattern" balding, but is not, last I noticed, showing any grey.

BTW, I am, as a matter of fact, left hand dominant.

McGehee:

As a matter of fact, my dad wore a beard for some years in middle age. He shaved it off only when it went completely grey— the hair on the top of his head is black. And into his late 60s, he could easily pass for 40 or 45.

And let's not get into my grandfather, whom I remember singlehandedly pushing a stuck car out of a snowbank when he was 85. Or my grandmother (currently edging the century mark), who was still chopping tree stumps out with an axe when she was past 90.

What makes my grey beard so amusing is that, apart from that and the fact that I'm a bit more weatherbeaten, I'm as wrinkle-free at 47 as I was at 18— and will probably remain so for another 20 years at least. Like I say, it's genetics.

(Note, my hair is brown and not red; I repeat, my hair is brown and not red. Though as the saying goes, Life is long but the years are short... ;-)

Oh, and FWIW I'm a southpaw too.

You only need to start worrying when you start to go grey down there .

My sideburns are white and it is slowly expanding. Doesn't bother me, but my 39 year old wife is usually thought to be MUCH younger than my 36 years. *sigh*

Ahem, that's "graybeard."

I have gray hairs. No, wait, they're silver. And all the women in my mom's family are bald/balding. I'm so screwed.

Hey, don't worry about it. I have been finding stray gray hairs since I was about 12 years old. I'm 28 now and my hair still looks brown. Heck, if it bothers you that much you can alway dye it. They make special dyes for beards.