I just had a spat with my Mom about my hair about
a week ago. My hair is at
collar length and she has been pestering me to
cut it for the summer and I
had no plans to shorten it. I had an interview
with my brother for a
management position at his restaurant. I knew
there was a chance I'd have to
either shorten my hair or even ponytail it, but
my brother was a pretty
reasonable guy and he knew how attached I was
to my hair and he was about 3
years older then me. I had to stop at my mom's
work she was a barber
downtown and I was hoping she would not say anything
that would really upset
me.
I got within 50 feet of her shop and got very
nervous. Just then I got about
15 feet of her shop and I seen her step out and
turned her head and seen me
and I approached her and surprisingly she said
"Hi" and I said "Hi, How ya
doing?" mom replied "Just Great" she then
continued by saying "I'm sorry if
I upset you last week, just thought you would
look good with a short summer
do!" I replied "That's ok...don't worry
about it" Mom said "can I offer you
a drink?" I thought for a minute and thought
well, I am just a bit thirsty.
I said "Sure" mom went and got her keys
out and opened the pop machine and
got me one out and handed to me. she then said
"You're welcome, your smile
is thanks enough" we then proceeded inside her
shop and I had a seat in the
back room while she locked the door. When mom
came back I hadn't took the
time to notice her hair and gotten a few inches
past the middle of her back.
Mom had shaved her head about a year and a half
ago when she donated some of
her hair to kids who had no hair at all who were
in the hospital. they
offered to pay my mom almost $1,000 for it but
she did not take anything for
it.
Mom kept her hair short for about 3 to 4 months
after that by shaving it
once per week an then she got tired of doing
it and let it grow out. A
friend of mom's had been doing her hair for her
by just trimming off the
longer hairs and cutting her bangs.
Mom had planned to grow it to near her waist
and I for one was looking
forward to it.
Mom got her lunch out of the refrigerator and
she had some snack items and
mom keeps a good stock of cupcakes in the refrigerator
and handed me one of
them as I loved them. We ate and then mom spoke
and said "Dave told me that
you were possibly going to work for him after
today?" I replied saying "He
just needs an assistant manager and wanted to
talk to me about it" mom said
"those jobs are very stressful at times, but
I think you could probably
handle it" I replied "that's true, he just
told me he needed someone for
about 3 days per week in addition to his current
staff" mom replied "are
you going to take the offer?" I replied
"it depends on the pay scale" Mom
then replied "he pays his managers good, I think
they earn quite more than
$500 a week" Ii said "wow, pretty good"
Mom said "if he offers you a good
opportunity, I wouldn't turn it down"
I replied "well, I'm only working about 30 hours
per week at the amusement
park and it pays just about little over $300
per week with all the overtime
involved, it gets really busy there" Mom
said "that's fantastic but are you
happy there?"
I said "truthfully.. Yes!"
Mom then said "you talk to Dave and I think he'll
make you a nice offer"
I looked up on the clock and seen it was about
15 till 1 and my interview was
shortly and mom would be opening back up pretty
soon.
I then spoke and said "I need to go see Dave
so don't work too hard" Mom
said "good luck and let me know how it goes"
I said "you got it" I then walked out of
the shop and walk about a few
blocks down to where dave worked and he was waiting
outside or taking a
break. He seen me and said "Hi Tim"
I said "Hi" I sat down and he sat
down. He spoke and said
"How does $450 a week sound to you?" I
said "sounds rather good" Dave said
"can you start in tomorrow?" I said "I
think I can" Dave replied "be here
at 9 am" I said "looking forward
to it" Dave then said "I need to go back
to work, enjoy the afternoon and Tim wear you
hair in a ponytail or cut it
short" I said "ok" Dave then said
"see you in the morning" I said "see ya"
I walked back to my car at the bank and drove
home and when I got home I
found Sally my girlfriends car parked there she
had a key to get in. Sally
had mid back length hair and I absolutely adored
her blonde hair. I parked
the car and went inside and to find her at the
kitchen table dressed up in a
nice skirt and hose and heels and looked her
and noticed she got a haircut
from what it looked like. I didn't say a thing
about it. Sally said "do you
like my hair?" I replied "yeah, it's
cute" she had gotten a chin length
bob. She then said "I needed a change and went
and got it cut" I replied
"sometimes a change does not hurt"
She then asked "how did your interview go?"
I said "good.....I start
tomorrow at 9 am" Sally then said
"wow..super, what are you going to do
about your hair?" I said "well, probably ponytail
it" she then said "you
would look a lot better with a shorter hair at
a management job" I said
"well, I don't know about that, kinda in love
with my hair as it is". She
then said "well, ok but I still think you should
go with a shorter hairstyle
just to start the job" I said "let me think about
it for a little bit"
Sally said "ok" and she went to the bathroom
and I sat there thinking that I
probably should get a haircut but I don't know.
Sally is an experienced stylist but I have not
asked her to cut my hair
before and I would not ask her to do such a thing.
I then thought for a minute and decided to go
get a crewcut or flat top it
would be ideal for the hot kitchen there.
Sally came back and I said "I think i'll go to
the barbershop and get a
crewcut or flat top" sally said "Oh
No you don't, let me do it and save
you money" I wasn't going to argue with
her, if she wanted to do it. I
spoke and said "I wasn't going to even ask you
to do it because I figured
you would turn me down" Sally said "No
way, would I do that" I said "ok,
go ahead and give me a flat top" She then
went and got a cape and clippers
and some scissors and she caped me up and then
took the scissors and snipped
my long hair in the back really short and then
went to the sides and snipped
then short and then took the clippers and ran
them up the back of my nape
and clipped it to the scalp and did he same thing
to the sides and then
surprisingly she took the clippers to my forehead
and started cutting it and
making several passes until i was almost bald.
She then put a hot towel on my head for a few
minutes and then she took it
off and then applied shaving cream to my head
and she started shaving the
back and it took her a long while about 5 minutes
to shave my head and then
she took the towel and wiped all the cream off
and then uncaped me and she
said "how was that?" I said "super,enjoyed
it" she said "you're ready for
tomorrow" then she said "I have a little
surprise for you" she reached to
the back of her head and pulled her hair down
and to my surprise her hair
fell out to the middle of her back, she was wearing
a wig. I mouth dropped
open and then I cracked up laughing.
She then said "I would not want to cut something
off that you adore and I
thought I'd fool you a little by picking up the
chin length wig to make you
think I got a haircut when I actually didn't.
I said "you sure fooled me"
We then made out for about 15 minutes and then
went out for dinner and had a
very romantic night.
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