THERE HAVE BEEN THREE DISTINCT PHASES of my life: Barber Avoidance (BA), Barber Enjoyment (BE), and Barber Unnecessary (BU). As a young man coming of age in the turbulent Sixties, I shunned the barber shop. I had no interest in getting my hair cut. My disappointment was that, as my hair grew more and more unkempt, it didn’t grow long, it pooched out in thick curls. Then, when I became professionally active and had to be conscious of my appearance, I started going regularly to the barber. I found the experience a relaxing break in the day. The disappointment then became the barber needing me to remove my glasses, without which I couldn’t look at the girlie magazines he kept that had scantily clad females in them. By the time of retirement, I was completely bald and so had no further need for a barber’s services. What little hair that remained on either side of my head, I shaved off myself. My most lasting memory of a barbershop was right after I had gotten out of the hospital following my ileostomy surgery. I was twenty-one, my hair was a tangled mess, and it was probably the last haircut that I’d have for at least eight or ten years. My practically bald grandfather took me. He and I both got into barber chairs simultaneously, right next to each other. As the barber finished with me and I was getting out of the chair, the other barber, much to my amazement, was still working over my almost bald grandfather. Finally, he finished, my grandfather paid, and we left the shop. “I can’t believe it took the barber longer to cut your hair than mine,” I marveled. “It just took him longer to find it,” my grandfather said.
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