Without realising this when I wrote it, this reminds me of probably the most crushing real-life baldness anecdote I have, which I've written about at least once before. And it was about a full head father and his minimum NW3 son in his early 20s, I wasn't there but the story was told by a friend of my fathers, but I know the father and son.
"so his son just started working with him, and he's there calling him over to help with something and goes "Da! Da! Come here a minute" and he walks over to him, pulls him aside and says (in a serious tone) "Don't be f*****g calling me "da" ya baldy f***".
RIP emotions, feelings for him, that son must be a shell now. His father was genuinely embarrassed other people will know he has a balding son. Wow.