Phabulous Phantoms Phorever Baby!!!
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Maybe, my size (S) fits perfectly.
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I’m only going to wear mine while flying The Phabulous Phantom…and Never Wash it…even now it fits me as snug as a Chinese Finger!!! 
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TBF I am 1.69m at 55kg 
I fly up every mountain. The 90kg sprinter type on his carbon bike that overtook me on the flat doesn’t stand a chance against me on my steel bike with pannies, carrying a heavy lock once the gradient exceeds 2%
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I’m thinking of a progressive wardrobe approach:
Day 1: Showing up at the recruiters office: “I wanna fly jets”
NOTE: This is only slightly ahead of my time - I had button-fly jeans on when I raised my right hand 
- and I never got to drive a real Phantom.
Day 2
After day 365 - this module is gonna take a long time (almost as long as the Rube Goldberg-like Apache! 
)
Oh wait…wrong image:
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When we were kids, dad always took us to the base barbershop. That gif is so how we felt. Like a sheep at shearing. We must have squirmed and fidgeted a lot because those dudes did not mind disciplining us in front of our parents. You’ll sit there quietly while I hold your head with a firm grip, shave your head, and like it too. Every kid, no every kid through E3, had the same haircut LOL.
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I loved going to the base barber shop as a kid, 5 minutes in the chair and done. My dad made sure I knew what to tell them to get my haircut correctly, so there was never any issue with it. As an adult, I’d love to go somewhere that didn’t talk to me, and got my hair done in 5 minutes. Sure the $5 it used to cost is probably never going to happen, but the $30 I pay now for 30 minutes of being talked at should cover it.
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After, oh, 40 years old that was me. And it still is me. My wife now, not so much.
She hates my ‘efficient’ haircuts; comb your hair with a washcloth sorta thing. Only time she gets really pizzed at me is when I have them take a wee bit too much off. Oddly, I like my hair shorter now than when I was in the military. Of course I was in my twenties - and girls liked longer hair. Think there’s a correlation there?
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…and this is why, as soon as I got to Charleston, I asked my cousins where to get my hair cut in town. Found a great place in North Charleston off Sewell that properly hooked me up.
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One of the things I miss most about not living in town is a good old fashioned barbershop.
Even when I was in the Army, once out of recruit training you were allowed to get a regulation haircut that didn’t make it look like you had just lost a fight with a demented sheep shearer!
Fast forward to moving to the country about ten years ago and because of time and money, I decided the only way to get a haircut was to buy a set of clippers and do it myself… Number 2 comb every few weeks was the ‘look’.
But when my last set of clippers died I thought WTF and have been growing my hair since. That was a year ago 
Wife reckons I “need a trim”
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Been since December 03, 2022 for me.
Wheels
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DARN HIPPIES!!!
I’m pretty sure that when i joined in '83, i paid 3 dollars to get my hair cut on Ft Bragg. I now birch about 30 dollar hair cuts too. 
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But you know, they always give you that first free cut…
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Man, I was born too late to be a Phantom jockey. I had the hairdo to get shaved!
17-18 year old me during my wrestling days:
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You did not expect that camera, did you? 
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I legitimately remember what happened, too. I was brushing my teeth and a friend who was crashing with me snapped it because he was determined to make me remember that 'fro.
He was right to do so.
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A comment regarding Heatblur and its business practices. First I must say MEA-CULPA MEA-CULPA due do my thinking I was supporting a start up flight sim operator. I like many others went to my PayPal account immediately upon receiving the information of the F4 ordering information. I signed in as a Founder (129.00). No regrets only disappointment. I made the error of moving to a new apartment during the mailing action of HB. Upon learning of the mailing out of the swag I contacted HB and explained the situation by providing new address. HB reply is that I should have had mail forwarding . And tough Love is appropriate. That is why today I say MY FAULT, MY FAULT. I am sad because HB like other startups require the support of its clientele and have long term relationships. Yes I would like the T-shirt etc…I am a faithful supporter of DCS, I own every module and I know DCS supports its client base with weekly updates. I have no problem waiting on new modules ie., the F15E I recall the weekly updates and now DCS is offering the F4 on pre-order. I am ordering the DCS F4 module out of loyalty and trust of the business ethics and practices. I leave HEATBLUR in the afterburners heat blur of life. I stood in line for the Falcon flight sim package in 1980 when we purchased a CD with a number and a huge manual all of which our still on my book shelf. Long live Flight Simming. Thank you Mudspike .
Hi @SilverFrog and welcome to Mudspike 
I’m not sure where you’re going with your post?
Are you saying that you informed Heatblur about your new address, after they sent the package?
You seem to understand that this is your fault, but still blame Heatblur for something?
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I tried to understand - I honestly tried. 
Looks like a rambling though.
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