A man enters a hairdressing salon, stops and looks around as if trying to take the place in. Before he can make up his mind, on whether to stay or to turn around and leave, a cute young female hairdresser approaches him and greets him with a large overpowering smile.
She asks him if he is interested in having his hair cut. Even though the first word that springs to mind is
“duh !”, he just smiles and nods hesitantly.
Punctuated with another sparkling ‘toothpaste commercial’ like smile, she leads the way to a vacant chair and hands him a magazine.
As he leafs through it he realizes that it is a specialist magazine dedicated to men’s hairstyles. No cars, power tools, sailing boats, sports results; no, none of those, just glossy pages filled with boring pictures of hair !
His friends had managed to entice him into coming to this salon. Their enthusiasm and arguments were so convincing that they had ultimately managed to win him over. There was no way that he could have remained opposed to the idea in light of such a concerted and consistent effort.
He had been quite content, up till now, cutting his own hair in front of the mirror, seeing as he used to own his own barber shop a few years ago.
So here he was, sitting in a chair at the salon, wondering what to expect, only half enthused with the prospect of having some stranger run their fingers through his hair.
They all seemed so young these days, he wondered to himself, what could they really know about the art of hairdressing ?
He personally took pride in his well structured life, doing his utmost to preserve a stable unhindered comfort zone by sticking to, and constantly refining, a set of self-satisfying and, let’s face it, reassuring habits.He was interrupted in his thoughts as someone came to fetch him for the shampoo session.
As he leaned back, he closed his eyes and leaned his head onto the cool edge of the wash basin. Getting one’s hair washed should be a pleasant experience after all, he decided, and made an effort to relax.
It was in fact rather pleasant, if you overlooked the soap in the eye and the sudden variations in water temperature. Grumble, grumble, grumble…sounds French, doesn’t it ?
He returned to his initial chair with slightly dripping hair. In fact some of the drops of water began trickling down his neck, and ran all the way down onto his back; a frown began to appear on his forehead.
As he turned around to wipe his neck he was startled out of his wits by a young man who suddenly appeared, out of nowhere. Of course this hairdresser also afforded him a dazzling smile, to which he simply responded with a sigh and a brief smirk. He then he closed his eyes and he leaned back into his chair.
The young man began combing through his client’s hair, trying to get a feel for its current layout. He made an attempt or two to get the conversation going, but all he obtained were a few raised eyebrows. He then tried to suggest couple of hair styles that would suit the shape of his client’s face. Was that another smirk ?
Oh boy, thought the hairdresser, how on earth could he please this customer if he couldn’t get a word out of him ? Nevertheless he grabbed his comb and scissors, tapped them together to rid them of any leftover hairs and began clipping the air prior to proceeding with the first snip.
He combed through his client’s hair once again, this time selecting a section of hair and then proceeded to remove a couple of centimeters off the end of the line of hair that he had neatly lodged between his fore and middle fingers.
No sooner had he brought the scissors towards his client’s head, than the head was there no more. It had disappeared.
Confused the hair dresser looked up to find his client standing by his side.
He was thanking him for his time and effort, and explained that he had changed his mind. He was sure that the hair dresser was proficient at his job, but he just didn’t feel confident enough that he would be pleased with the end result. He removed his gown, wiped his neck and then darted for the door.
What just happened ? The hairdresser was stunned, baffled, utterly confused. How could the client have known what to expect ? Unless he was clairvoyant ?
He thought back to what he had said to the client, but he couldn’t think of anything out of the ordinary. Maybe it was what he hadn’t said that sparked the client’s change of mind ?
Wow, that was the quickest hair cut ever.
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