h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Painful Story.
Some guys I knew once drunkenly attacked a very-hairy-legged friend on his stag night with a pot of strip-wax. He awoke on his wedding day with a hangover and go-faster stripes up the side of his legs.
(Disturbingly, the stripes grew back tuftier than the rest of his leg hair and the last I heard he had go-faster stripes for life.)

Of course, they could have made the whole thing up.

I went out with a lad who the exact opposite happened to - friends waxed ONE strip on ONE leg, and it NEVER grew back - it looked really odd, too!

If he'd been a woman he'd have been really happy that the hair never grew back...... it's SO unfair that things like that only happen to men!!

When I was a teenager in the seventies - when very thin eyebrows were the height of sophistication - I plucked mine assiduously. They have never grown back to their original size and bushiness. For some years, they were a cause of much embarrassment as the hairless areas were very, very white. I keep hoping that the same will happen to my legs ...