Mr. Bigfoot Man

This is Michael.  He's my older brother.  And since he started college this has been just about what he's looked like.  Like a Mr. Bigfoot man.

When he started to grow out his hair and beard several theories began to pop up.  His beard was home to a magical Hawk, he was the lost bigfoot, we had secretly found him in the mountains and brought him home to be our brother. 

(The last one was what I repeatedly told people, I'm still not sure if I don't believe it to be true.)

When we heard that he walked to taco bell from his dorm room at two o'clock in the morning, my mother began to worry that he would be mugged.  This concern lasted all of two minutes because one of us pointed out that if ANYONE were to see Michael and be concerned about a mugging, they wouldn't think of him as the victim...

(Not that he would.  But he's been called a giant for valid reasons and the guy can be pretty dang scary if he wants...)

We adore Michael even though he's a bearded bigfoot man who prefers robots to people.  He's also a stupid freaking Genius and makes the rest of us want to punch him sometimes because he doesn't have to TRY. 

Yet, even though he grew up with four girls for most of his life (or maybe it's BECAUSE of this?) He has serious space issues.

Which makes both Sara and Kristin very sad, because out of the six children that my mother had, those two are the most cuddly.

And it's their goal in life to make Michael hug them whenever he comes to visit.

Kristin usually just makes him, apparently being older than him makes him not as scary.  Sara on the other hand is not so fortunate and does not get hugs, but most certainly not for the lack of trying.

Michael has this thing, where if you touch him at all (poking his arm or hugging for example)...well...he has this ability to be SCARY.

I think we know, in the back of our minds, that there isn't really anything he WOULD do..but...well, you just don't know, right?

I maintain my distance for this reason. I'm not exactly a cuddly person either so I don't mind as much.  Sara takes it as a challenge.

If she was going to take such a risk she should have just hugged him.  It wasn't like he wasn't going to murder her anyway.

The POINT of this entire post, however, is that Michael, since the beginning of his college experience has looked like a Mr. Bigfoot man.

Except when he came home for spring break the other day, my mom cut his hair.  No one informed me of this so when I came to visit and saw him, my reaction was similar to this: