Posted by Ultradog MN on June 16, 2022 at 17:20:54 from (172.58.123.193):
Went to my usual barber shop yesterday. There's 3 chairs and 5 or 6 barbers that come and go. One is the owner. I suppose the others just rent the chairs. I always just walk in, wait my turn and get whoever. Maybe it's the same everywhere but here they still put foam on the back of your neck and shave it with a straight razor. And give you about 20 seconds on the neck and shoulders with the electric vibrator too though I could dispense with that. So there's one barber in the place, one guy in the chair and me. A few minutes later a wild, beat up looking guy with a lot of tats and a grill of about 8 gold teeth came in. He talks to the other barber for a moment then asked if I needed a haircut. I'm thinking, Huh? He's the barber? But I got in the chair and told him to cut it like the other barber has his which was a little shorter than my usual. Any more, they mostly wet your hair and cut it with scissors. If they use the electric clippers it's to clean up a bit and do the eyebrows, etc with the same tool. But this guy breaks out the big clippers and gets at it. I didn't have much to say but it was interesting getting him to talk about himself. When I asked him where he learned to cut hair he said, in prison. I laughed out loud and told him that he looked like it was true. He laughed too and we had a bit of fun. I kept asking questions and learned he'd been in the joint 4 times for a total of 11 years. Bad kid from a bad home in a bad city. He's 45 now. But the haircut... All this time he's sawing away on my hair with the clippers. Then he does the shaving and vibrator thing and at last he hands me the mirror And it's a blanketly blank crewcut almost! Top's about 1in. Way too short. Sheesh. I wore these haircuts for my first 18 years when my Mom cut them on me. And for 4 years in the Navy. Those were always done with electric clippers too. I told him I could forgive him for all the bad deeds he did in the past but I would never forgive him for the really bad haircut. First he laughed at what I said . And then he apologized for getting a little too close. I got this bad haircut but I know it'll grow out in about 6 weeks so I don't really give a rat's nose about that. So I paid and tipped him too. It was a couple of hours afterward that I remembered the part about the shaving and realized I had survived a violent criminal at my neck with a straight razor and lived to laugh about it. Ha! It was the best and worst haircut I've had. The guy had character and a lot of life's experience. Most of it not the best. But he'd maintained a sense of humor through it all and kept you liking him. And I hope God keeps him.
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