I went in for my bi-yearly haircut today. In the old days I\u2019d haul in to Stanwoodopolis at Carl\u2019s Barber Shop for a clipping and gossip and heated debates. Sadly, those days are long gone and Carl\u2019s retired from his long tonsorial career. Back then I didn\u2019t mind waiting for a turn in the leather swivel chair, mostly an excuse to put a finger into the political winds.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m forced to go to the chain haircut joints. Salons, I guess they call em. They\u2019re quick, painless and anonymous. They take your phone and name, but not for socializing, strictly for data-mining, frequency of visits, favorite hair gel maybe. At the door of Great Clips I was asked even before I took my hat off if I\u2019d made an Online Appointment. No, I said, do I need one? Not at all, I was told.<\/p>\n
But \u2026 a couple of folks who had made an online appointment but who hadn\u2019t arrived just yet, were before me. Be about 20 minutes. \u201cDo you have a cellphone,\u201d my would be stylist asked, telling me next visit I could be one of the favored few. Wouldn\u2019t have to wait 20 minutes next time. Mrs. Jenkins, my first grade teacher, used to make her point to us ignoramuses in the exact same sing-song voice. I didn\u2019t like it then and I sure as gel didn\u2019t care of it 60 years later. Call me irascible, but I\u2019m not sitting in the chrome and mirror sterility of a chain haircutting factory more than 20 seconds. Twenty minutes is inconceivable. I mean, look at the magazine rack. Us and People? Kill me with a scissors now!<\/p>\n
I headed for the exit, heads newly coiffed turning to ogle this ogre. \u201cWill you be coming back in 20 minutes?\u201d my headhunter asked, sensing customer dissatisfaction. I said no. \u201cIt\u2019s only 20 minutes,\u201d she explained, obviously figuring since I\u2019d waited 6 months for the next haircut already, 20 minutes was a blink in my tonsorial universe. \u201cCome back and see us again,\u201d she said, half a question. \u201cI will,\u201d I said, \u201csoon as I get a cellphone.\u201d She knew — and I knew too — I\u2019d have hair down to my toenails by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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