@WIY ~ I heard once that in Kaballah it says that you shouldn’t have any hair behind your ears when Davening Shemoneh Esrei, I’m not exactly sure as to the reason for that though…
@shlishi ~ What’s wrong with having one’s Peyos behind one’s ear?
@always here ~ I like the way you call them ‘foot-longs’ ;), I do the same, but not for it to dry, cuz in order to curl them up behind your ear you need it to be wet, I guess it’s just laziness, and he doesn’t do as long as he doesn’t have to (that’s my reason at least)…