That is worse than the motorcycle helmet story
Actually, unless you are doing forward rolls in the shag carpet, I dont see how your house would get infested.
When oldest was about 14, she lent her riding helmet to someone( or she borrowed one, cant remember which), and she contracted lice.
It was really hard to get rid of, although she has blond hair & they were easy to see. It seemed to take at least a week or two till they were completely gone.
I used the toxic stuff, but that didnt work. So we spent many nights with me carefully going through her hair with a nit comb, and using rosemary hair oil.
Exactly. You bring them in in your head, a helmet, put your head on your pillow and you get thousands of little roommates. No shag carpeting required.
I didn’t realize that this thread could get this much weirder than it started. 9pm and Downton can’t come fast enough! 8-}
Now my head is starting to itch . . .
Maybe the lice brought bedbugs along for the ride…
the pillows are pretty easy to treat, you just bake them in the dryer.
No one else got them.
I live in fear of bedbugs when we travel though.
His girlfriend gave him lice, and then he shaved his head to get rid of them.
My mind is in the gutter, so I was thinkng perhaps a “friend” transmitted Pthirus pubis.
I admit, I am sure there is a more innocent explanation, although it does make you curious. Adults don’t usually shave a healthy head of hair, unless maybe they are a coach & their team just won the championship!
So you are saying maybe he was crabby?
I feel badly for the OP if she comes back and reads all these off- the-scales hypotheses.
Hubby and I were discussing this, and three things stood out to us:
The first thing my husband thought of was this guy wants a divorce.
We also discussed how women tend to change their hairstyles more frequently. Because men don’t do the same, there’s more of a need to discuss a drastic change with your spouse before doing so. Keep in mind we are saying “discuss” which is different from asking permission. My husband said he would never shave his head without discussing it with me first, because of its association with cancer and he wouldn’t want to subject me to that anxiety.
He also said he would never shave his head, but that’s beside the point. LOL
When I started dying my hair to hide the gray I discussed, okay announced, to my husband that I was doing so. He’s my best friend so of course I would share this life-changing decision with him. Well to me it was life-changing anyway. LOL
I would argue that because men more rarely change their hair drastically, it would never occur to most of them that it would cause any kind of reaction. Thus they would not be aware of any need to discuss.
I suspect that a good portion of what people know about what their partner cares about and wants to discuss comes from experience. This is probably more true of men, who are less likely to discuss in general. They do something, their partner says “Hey, I wish you had talked to me about that,” and next time they will. So for things they’ve never done, there’s no way to know.
And bear in mind that several people have commented here and said they don’t see any need to discuss this kind of thing. So it’s not like this is a universally agreed upon thing that should be discussed.
It would never occur to me to expect my husband to tell me if he wanted to change his hairstyle. Jobs, yes. Hairstyles, no.
Changing hairstyles is not the equivalent of shaving one’s head in our house. If I told DH I was going to “change my hairstyle” and I walked in with a shaved head, I think he would not consider that I had communicated my intentions. DH would never shave his head on a whim. He would definitely tell me if he had made or lost a bet of that nature.
Sure, while in some marriages, this would apparently not even warrant any kind of comment whatsoever, that is not the case in the OP’s marriage, as the conflict illustrates.
Some of these scenarios presented not only seem overly dramatic, they also seem rather mean spirited and really presumptuous.
Just to re-cap these are the possible explanations we have come up with for the OP’s H shaving his head:
Having an affair
Mid-life crisis
Bored
Contracted lice from a motorcycle helmet
Lost a bet
Robbed a bank - shaved his head as a disguise
Girlfriend got him drunk and shaved his head
Alternative to witness protection program
Wants a divorce
Contracted lice from a girlfriend
Contracted “pthirus pubis” from a “friend” - (not sure what that has to do with his head?)
OP’s H says he “lost a bet.” When you look at the alternatives I think that is a reasonable possibility.
This would be a good theory if he also lost his superhuman strength at the same time.
I think this is one of those threads in which we all project onto somebody else’s marriage all the oddities of our own relationships. The fact is that all marriages are different, and people communicate differently. Some people talk a lot, even about trivial decisions, and some people don’t do that. A deviation from the norm surprises us, whatever the norm is.
And those of you who say that you and your spouse don’t care about appearances–are you asserting that the wife has never said to the husband, “Are you really going to wear that shirt?”
Another note: My wife’s most recent haircut was…unfortunate. When she came home, she said she didn’t like it. I made the mistake of agreeing with her.
Another note: one of the more memorable arguments we had was years ago, when I said that someday I’d like to go up on the space shuttle. She said I wasn’t allowed to go. I took great offense at the idea that she thought she could forbid me from going up in the space shuttle. This was before they started blowing up, so in the long run I had the worst of that argument.
Oh my. Well, live and learn, right?
Hunt, too bad the shuttle program is over, but there is still a possibility to sign up for that one-way trip to Mars… 
We have had our share of “space shuttle” arguments I usually end the nonsense talks with a promise to grow back a long braid and get a motorcycle if the “space shuttle” ever flies. 
We both laugh!
I fall in the camp of finding it a little suspicious. You just don’t shave your head without thinking it will be a point of conversation. And the fact she cares enough to post here tells me they do talk about stuff. There is one thing I have as my bone of contention - I’m anti motorcycle. I have gone so far to say, the day he brought one home would be the day I understood he was no longer interested in being married to me. It’s not like he really wants one and he understands my underlying history to get why it’s such a hot button for me. Now you all may own motorcycles and it’s no big deal, or think it’s obnoxious or you’d buy one just to taunt me. I used to think that was my only thing, now apparently I need to add no space shuttle rides.
I think there are marriages where people expect to discuss everything and marriages that don’t. I happen to be in the first camp and can’t imagine why I wouldn’t want to be involved in the day to day life of my spouse.