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The Barber (circa 1985)
Sandra slammed the front door, making the doorknob bounce from the wall, entering the house while shouting, " I am so sick of that beautician never listening to how I want my hair cut.
One month it's great, the next month the bangs are so short I look like Julius Caesar! I mean how hard could it be to LEAVE THE BANGS touching my eyebrows?"
Pulling his eyes from the football game on TV, Bob, "you say this every month, why don't you listen to me and next time let me cut it? I have told you many times I cut Robby's hair his whole life." She answered, I am afraid to let you cut it, you have never had any training! He replied, the hairdressers you use are trained and per your ranting, never get it right. Next time we will try it. You have nothing to lose."
6 weeks later:
Samar says "I HAVE to get my hair cut! I have waited as long as I can stand it. You know I like my hair really short!
I can't even stand to think about an appointment because then I will be crying again about the bangs."
Bob answered, 'there is a beautician supply place down on 66th street, let's go there and see if they have scissors that will fit my thumb and finger. Sighing with aggravation, Sandra agreed and an hour later stood wrapped in a towel in the bathroom waiting to be scalped. Robert growled, Stand Still! Do you want me to cut your ear?"
Fifteen minutes later, he said "Done, now Look in the mirror and tell me if you like it! Staring in the mirror she started to smile and laugh and hug Bob because it was the Best Haircut EVER!
She said I had my hair cut in this Sassoon Style in 1980 and it's never been as good as this!
She said no one will ever cut my hair again! Now its 2022 and no scissors have touched her hair without Bobs fingers in them since that first FREE haircut.
Now time has changed the 40-year-old into the stiff and old 78-year-old, and the hair is stiff and old, the barber is 86, stiff and old. Yes, he has cut the ear twice in those years, but never cut the bangs to short.
Nearly 200 haircuts in 38 years, if Samar paid him, he could buy her a new car!
Now they dream of what could have been if they had placed the cost of a haircut and tip in a piggy bank! or Wall Street!
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| 38 years of Haircuts from 1985 top right to Now |
