Hello. I stopped and got a haircut after work today. Wait! Don’t leave yet! I am going someplace with this. I know that my haircut isn’t important to anyone else but me, but while I was in the chair, I struck up a conversation with the stylist about hair cuts that I found to be very interesting.
First off, the place I go to get my hair cut is one of those “haircuts for guys” places. You know the ones, free peanuts, free coffee, every t.v. tuned to ESPN. It’s great! And it made me remember how barbershops used to be. Barbershops were for men only. Now that’s not to say that every once and a while a girl would get her hair cut there, but it was almost exclusively the domain of the male.
I got my hair cut by the same barber for 30 – 35 years. Adam was his name and the last time I saw him he was still cutting hair. Then barbershops gave way to the “family styling center”, a place everyone in the family could go to that had a special room just for guys. This was o.k. but it was hard to have the atmoshere that a good old fashioned barbershop had when the smell of some lady getting a perm hung heavy in the air. It’s just not quite the same. And in a strange and unnerving twist, there was a period of time when the perm was being done on a mans hair. I never understood that. To each their own I guess, but not for me.
So to be able to go to a place for a haircut dedicated to men is like stepping back in time except with peanuts and cable.
I was reminded recently by an old friend that I used to wear my hair pretty long. Shoulder length or longer. Hair! ( that’s an inside attempt at humor for anyone reading this who’s old enough to remember the Cowsills). Guess I felt like letting my freak flag fly. (Crosby, Stills, and Nash anyone?) But it’s an ironic twist for me to wax nostalgic about barbershops. I guess barbershops bring back some good memories for me and I’ll take that anytime.
That’s all for now. Gotta go check my hair. But I”ll talk to you tomorrow when I’m sure I’ll be playing in quicksand, again.
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