We have a Winner!

After a month of wearing different forms of utterly ridiculous facial hair, I am happy to report that the mustache contest is over. While I got all the satisfaction that I was planning to out of the event, including:

1- Entertaining (and horrifying) my co-workers

2- Amusing myself looking at pictures of funny member mustaches

3- Annoying my wife in front of our friends and neighbors

4- Watching as people that didn’t know me tried to reconcile my nose handle bars with other aspects of their impression of me- particularly in business meetings

I am very happy to no longer have to scratch at the dead muskrat that was  my mustache through some of the hottest weather of the year. And I have to admit, looking like a total cheese dick in front of every person you come in contact with gets draining- even for a cocky guy like me.

So that is why it was so easy to choose the winner of this month’s  contest: Aaron Armstrong from Responsys. Not only did he send in multiple looks that were fantastic (check out Pablo Escobar in the shades), but HIS  WIFE HAD A CHILD LAST MONTH. Anybody that is married and/or has kids (or has parents) knows what kind of a commitment to the ‘stache this shows. He has a ri-DONK-ulous sideburns suspension bridge at the hospital! Aaron’s participation in the Garth’s World mustache contest will forever be immortalized, allowing him basically all of the 4 satisfaction points listed above every time someone digs out the baby album. Bravo Aaron- you got balls big as church bells, brother.

Aaron received 1500 Jigsaw points into his account- and I sent his wife a nice gift certificate.