male pattern strangeness

The other day I saw a man with a goatee on his forehead. We were on a bus, across from each other, so I was able to observe him for some time while he complained to his companion about how irresponsible his daughter had become.

As I watched him, I thought mostly about what the motivation might have been for him to grow a small, triangular beard on his forehead. He otherwise had what I've heard called "male pattern baldness", with a ring of hair on three sides of his head, and shiny skin on top. But right in the center of the top of his forehead, all alone, was this carefully cultivated patch of brown hair that was obviously cleaned, combed, and possible even conditioned.

Is it possible that he was simply celebrating his lot in life, relishing the fact that his DNA had left his skull in this situation? Based on his conversational tone, I thought not. I finally decided it was more likely that his goatee was instead an act of defiance, a commitment to never give up until his final follicle had died and released its grip on the last strand of dead protein. Kind of like those old Japanese guys they keep finding in foxholes on little tropical islands that don't know the war is over.