Costly Hairstyles..!
“A barber is the only person whose conversation you can follow, even though he talks over your head…” Anon
I‘ve been hearing that United State’s Presidential candidate John Edwards paid $400 for a haircut, the tab of course picked up by the Democrats Campaign Committee. I decided to find out what made the US Senator choose such expensive a treatment.
“Shave, haircut or both?” asked Joseph the Barber of Beverley Hills, California as he beckoned me to the empty chair.
“No shave,” I said holding onto my beard.
“Then it’ll be $800,” he said as he adjusted the sheet round my front.
“But you charged Edwards only 400 dollars!” I exclaimed.
“That was shave and haircut!” said Joseph.
“So I want only a haircut!”
“That’s why I charge double!”
“How can you charge double for half the work?” I asked puzzled, careful not to antagonize the man who held the knife.
“When I give shave and haircut, I work and talk, but when I give only haircut I have to talk without work, that eese very difficult. Very troublesome! Barbers always like to work and talk!”
“Aha!” I said.
“What aha?”
“So Edwards came here to hear you talk?”
“All customers go to barbers to hear us talk!” said the barber patiently, as he looked curiously at my head.
I settled down in his chair and looked up at the great man.
“Did Edwards ask you what to do about the Iraq war?”
“Yes, he ask what to do with the troops!”
“I knew it,” I said excitedly as I pulled out my writing pad, “and what did you tell him?”
“I said it depends,”
“On what?” I asked tingling with curiosity.
“On what the men want.”
“You want the soldiers to vote on what to do?” I asked incredulously.
“Every man has a right to his own head!”
“I agree,” I said, “so what advice did you give him?”
“I told him a brush cut or burr would not do! That a butch or buzzcut would give dem a macho look, you know what I mean?”
“No,” I whispered.
“But Edwards he got his own ideas, you know what I mean, he want his men to have dat crew cut or even better a bowl cut like dose Second World War fellers. We talked a lot, Edwards and I, hey where you going, I ain’t started yet?”
“That’s all you and Edwards talked about?” I whispered as I left the shop lighter by eight hundred bucks, “I wonder what Hilary talks to her beautician?”
“Dats my wife, she’s got a shop down the road, fer a grand worth of pedicure she’ll tell you what she told Hillary to do wid de troops!”
“No..!” I screamed, “for that kind of money I’m not bothered whether she plans to give them a sauna or continue the blood bath..!”
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