God has a sense of humor.
Afterall, he gave us penguins – which are impossible not to observe and let out a chuckle or at least a smile. He also gave us truly funny people – like Jonathan Winters, Steve Martin, Jack Benny, and Bob Hope. But then, right before the Seventh Day when He rested, God gave old men ear hair.
As far as I know, women of any age don’t have tufts of hair follicles protruding from their ears. But men do, and the older we get, the more ear hair we have. To make up for the little bald patches on the back of our heads, gnarly hair begins to occupy all parts of our ears.
And ear hair is nasty. It’s not soft and fine. It’s like barbed wire. If you could string this stuff together it would make an impenetrable fence which no illegal migrant could get through. And the older we get, the more it grows. It begins to occupy all parts of our ears – inside, on the lobes and even on tops of the ears. And the stuff grows like a spring lawn that has been heavily fertilized. An ear hair hiding on top of your ear may be a quarter-inch on Monday and three inches long by the weekend. It hides where you can’t find or see it, but one day your ear itches and you discover a Rapunzel-like hair draping down to your shoulder.
There is no earthly reason why men should have hair on and in their ears, unless maybe to keep bugs out. If I was a bug, I definitely wouldn’t crawl into an ear fill with nasty ear hair.
Yes, God has a sense of humor. And ear hair on older men is one of His greatest practical jokes.