Public Service Announcement: plastic Wahl beard trimming guards are not so rigid that they won’t bend if pressed too hard to your face. So if, hypothetically, you are yelling at your kids while trimming your beard, and you distractedly press too hard while shooting death rays from your eyes in a direction other than the mirror, the guard can open wider than you intend. And a wide guard isn’t really a guard at all, and will turn your precision trimmer into a beardmower. If this happens, you have three options: (1) walk around with an idiotic divot in your beard, (2) wear a bandana on your face like a Wild West train robber, or (3) cut your manly garden down to a lamentable graveyard of stubble. All three options will rob you of your bearditude – just in time for the holidays!