Inspiring facial hair

I've got a beard.  Now it looks like Jon, the current assistant manager at the theatre, is growing one.  It's far from the first time this has happend.  For some reason, however bizzare, I seem to inspire a lack of shaving in others.  It makes no sense to me at all, but very often a week or two after I meet somebody, they decide to grow a beard.  Normally I probably wouldn't even notice except it's always been the same style I've got at the time, goatee, full, etc.  Maybe there's some kind of rugged empathy going on.  In any case it's very strange.