Hair Chop
I have a new barber. I know barber seems so outdated so not hip. Ah but massively functional and cheap.
I used to go to salons that cost $30 and up for me to get a wash and a cut. Then one day I was going from the sink where they wash it to the chair where they cut and it had dried out. She had to spray me down again with the bottle. At that point I knew that enough of my hair had left the building. This isn't something that bothers me so much, but in this case it's just economics. Actually it doesn't leave the building it falls right onto whatever I'm doing. That's truly the only annoying part. When I'm reading it comes down on the book and gets in my way. Also I traded pillow cases with tammy so that mine was the darker of the two so that I wouldn't wake up and have to look at that. With the dark blue on my side, it's still there in all of it's alpha male glory, I just can't see it.
So my new barber is named Al. He's completly bald. This may or may not be a good thing, I'm not sure yet. He's from boston and has a huge thick accent. Dude listens to Car Talk, a huge plus. It was on when we came in and I was happy to listen to a little NPR while waiting and listening to the guy in the chair complain about the hair options we men have around the canyon park area. He gives us a little history of the shop and how it changed hands and how it came to be his and how he's moving it down the road out of it's shack state. (it isn't much of a building) He never takes appointments and he wants to get more chairs going at once.
Max and I had been going from shop to shop and it's always a crap shoot you never know what you're going to get and how long it will take to grow out. Max seemed to like his cut and we listened to the guys in the know about sports (of which I am not one) rail on the Mariners' owners. I need a refresher on how to sound at least not perfectly stupid about sports in this town. I don't think muttering something about them being a bunch of stiffs works anymore... maybe it does.
I do hate the Yankees so that part was easy... there was a lot of hate for the Yankees in the room....
I used to go to salons that cost $30 and up for me to get a wash and a cut. Then one day I was going from the sink where they wash it to the chair where they cut and it had dried out. She had to spray me down again with the bottle. At that point I knew that enough of my hair had left the building. This isn't something that bothers me so much, but in this case it's just economics. Actually it doesn't leave the building it falls right onto whatever I'm doing. That's truly the only annoying part. When I'm reading it comes down on the book and gets in my way. Also I traded pillow cases with tammy so that mine was the darker of the two so that I wouldn't wake up and have to look at that. With the dark blue on my side, it's still there in all of it's alpha male glory, I just can't see it.
So my new barber is named Al. He's completly bald. This may or may not be a good thing, I'm not sure yet. He's from boston and has a huge thick accent. Dude listens to Car Talk, a huge plus. It was on when we came in and I was happy to listen to a little NPR while waiting and listening to the guy in the chair complain about the hair options we men have around the canyon park area. He gives us a little history of the shop and how it changed hands and how it came to be his and how he's moving it down the road out of it's shack state. (it isn't much of a building) He never takes appointments and he wants to get more chairs going at once.
Max and I had been going from shop to shop and it's always a crap shoot you never know what you're going to get and how long it will take to grow out. Max seemed to like his cut and we listened to the guys in the know about sports (of which I am not one) rail on the Mariners' owners. I need a refresher on how to sound at least not perfectly stupid about sports in this town. I don't think muttering something about them being a bunch of stiffs works anymore... maybe it does.
I do hate the Yankees so that part was easy... there was a lot of hate for the Yankees in the room....
posted by J.R. at 12:12 PM
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