August 08, 1974

[Apex]

August 8, 1974:

> President Richard Nixon resigns from office.

and on that day also:

> I broke up with my then girlfriend.

So of course, both events are etched in my memory.

I can't make any comments on Nixon here, do not intend to sound political.

But the ex earlier that year:

"Let's get a pair of motorcycles." "No, I'm a musician, cannot risk any accidents to my hands."
"OK, then let's go skydiving." "No, I'm musician, cannot risk any accidents to my hands."
"OK, then so maybe you could grow a beard."

The musician thing didn't work there, so I grew a beard just to placate her. What a pain, trimming, cleaning, shaving around it, etc. I'm just not a beard kind of guy.
She didn't like my kind of music either. Sabbath, Tull, Crimson, Hendrix, the Doors, just didn't register.

August 9, 1974:

I shaved off the damn beard. What a relief. No beard, hands are fine, and no girlfriend bugging me about stuff best left to the experts.

Yep, this really happened. Those were the days, young and immortal.

[H]

Hmn... a post in the humour section... for which I fail to see...
Nevertheless, there is an affiliation there for me...
young.. but separated from thoughts immortality...
Your mentioned Richard Milhous Nixon had turned 61 that year, the day an uncle of mine turned 45, January 9;
also, on that shared birthdate, in 1974, my dad died...
When Dad turned 50, I asked him what it was like to be ½-century old (he said, "About like 49"), then I told him he'd next see me turn ¼-century old; didn't happen -- never thought he'd die not yet 56.
Yes, I, too, remember 1974... particularly with the reminder...