Man Ends Up Looking Like A Lego Toy After Midlife Crisis Vanity Project Goes Wrong
There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned midlife crisis to bring out all that is supremely pathetic and hysterically comical in a man.
With their mean and lean years behind them and staring grimly down the barrel of a gun loaded with deadly bullets clearly marked “a receding hairline,” “a portly belly,” “a diminishing vigor,” and worst of all, “an increased lack of appeal to the opposite sex,” some men will take desperate measures.
Take middle-aged Taiwan man Wu Lei for example. There’s no fool like an old fool, and Wu certainly isn’t a player to let us men down when it comes to taking one for the team.
Wu may be 54, but like many men cresting a wave onto the beach where the pensioners lay like a tribe of sullen lizards in the sun, he doesn’t so much believe in the dignity of advancing years, but more in the eleventh commandment dictated to all and sundry from Mount Hollywood: “Thou shall keep a youthful appearance no matter the cost!”
In Wu’s case, his journey into midlife crisis hell began when he took one in the heart from Cupid’s mischievous bow.
A 23-year-old girl Wu wanted to impress failed to fall for the old man’s advances and rejected the aging fool out of hand. Somewhat bizarrely, Wu thought he’d try a different tack.
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Wu took the leap, and aided by two cans of gel, the maestro dedicated two hours to styling his hair into a perfectly right-angled flat top.
Wu clearly thought that armed with the “wow” factor of his wacky haircut, he’d get the better of his perpetual arm wrestle with old father time. Instead of looking younger, the poor misguided fool ended up looking like something that resembles a poorly designed extra out of The Lego Movie.
They now call Wu “blockhead”! And the object of his desires despises her middle-aged suitor even more.
Yahoo! News reported that the young lady in question, Ling Lin, said that Wu now looks like something like a Lego figure, or worse, a character from the video game Minecraft.
Ling explained:
“My friends call him blockhead, I can imagine he might have found someone as he had a good and respectable job as a medical laboratory scientist at the National Taiwan University Hospital. But he should act his age.”
As for Wu, the poor dude remains single and just can’t understand what went wrong:
“I can’t understand it. I make an attractive monthly income of TWD 70,000 (£1,400). I adopted this hairstyle because I wanted to look like a guy in his 20s or 30s to attract the girl who rejected me. Or in fact any girl.”
Yet there is a silver lining to this particular cloud. Although Wu may still by a bachelor by necessity as opposed to choice, his hairdo and the media coverage have made him something of a celebrity. People now point out “Blockhead” to their kids in the street and take pictures of him.
So hang on in there Wu. Even the rustiest of steam engines turns a corner eventually.
