Mrs. Septimus almost insists I go only to a particular barber 40 minutes away. (She’s a female barber, but middle-aged and with no “happy ending” on the menu.)
Given the long drive and the boredom I feel sitting in barber chair, I let my hair grow too long. The town with barber also has my dentist, and I need six fillings. Someday soon, especially if Internet fails for a whole day, I hope to make a double-errand trip… Unfortunately the psychiatrist who may know something obsession-compulsion as it relates to Internet Message Boards lives in yet a different distant town.
Oh yeah, my membership ran out with, like, a day’s notice. Can’t renew until next paycheck, so I forgot my location isn’t automatic right now. Grr.
Anyway, I’m in Chicago, and the place I go to is called Twisted Scissors. Here’s a pic of the owners. The one in the middle has been doing my hair since the salon before this one, when she was a lowly non-owner and itching to open her own place.
Looks like they charge $25 for guy’s cuts. No idea how that compares to a barber. Does your GF have a place she likes?
GF goes to a ritzy girly place where I and my kind would not be welcome. The place I went the other day charged. $15, which I initially thought was a mistake. I gave him $25.
Yeah, a name like Twisted Scissors would attract my business. We live in a rural area. The nearest small town has Betty’s Beauty Shop or Ed’s Barber Shop type names.
If it were up to me, I’d either wear my hair down my back or buzzed. But the wife has to look at me and prefers something along the lines of just a conservative professional cut. Not too short on the sides, not too long on the top.
What is weird is that it can be kinda hard to find someone who just does what I consider a nice “standard” haircut. Seems like many want to do something “stylish,” that ends up looking goofy. Also, I tend to go too long between cuts, so a fancy cut tends to grow out oddly.
Where I used to live, the shop in town was maybe 1/2 mile away. An old fashioned barbershop. I don’t know what it cost - maybe $12. Jim cut my hair for over a decade.
I moved to a new town and tried several barbers/stylists. All under $20. Only one consistently does a good job. I think she charges around $10. Her shop is in the living room of her old family home. Only problem is that she doesn’t take appts and her hours are inconsistent. Sucks to stop by and see a handwritten sign on the door. But it is on my way home - maybe 2 minutes out of the way.
I probably get it cut every 6 weeks. So I tend to have it cut too short, and it looks a bit shaggy by the time I get it cut again.
No friggin way I would drive 90 miles for a haircut, unless I REALLY liked to drive and had some other reason to regularly go to wherever the shop was.
So, I had my phone set to remind me at 4 and 6 weeks after my last haircut. Four weeks was definitely too early. This past Sunday was six weeks, and that seems about right, as my gf asked what was up with my hair-plans last night.
I told her I haven’t found a new place yet, but she was way ahead of me. She suggested we each just work a half day this Thursday; she is in the mood for Clem’s Barbeque, and we can go to the barbershop in Johnstown and hit Clem’s on the way back.
