Having looked like smoky the bear for about 3 months, (hairy, scruffy, etc), i finally decided to cough out the 15 euros for a haircut. Since I was in a big hurry, I decided to go to the hair dresser around the corner. I used to go there for a reason and stopped for a while. I wonder why?
well.. it wasn't a bad hair-cut in the most general sense of the word. I was asked how i would like it - so after he mentioned using the lawn-mower to trim the weed-like growth on the sides of my head, i agreed and paid not much attention.
He did a good job. It was shortened. Unfortunately, he did not stop there: he went on to work on the top of my hair.. Since I was sleepy,and it was too late to protest, i just shut my eyes and hoped for the best.
the results were pretty ok - if you don't mind looking like you just finished your army training. It was at that point that I remembered why I refused to get a hair cut there: no matter what i said, they would always give me the same hair style.
To make things even more intriguing, I found that my chances of getting the same hair-style at other hair-dressers are approximately the same. Lets see now.. that's that nice place with the older ladies giving hair cuts. There's that nice saloon with younger ladies, but apparently i got the same hair cut.. then there's this place (cheapest among the lot for the same cut, with a shampoo at the end. its quite worth the price because the other places do not offer hair-wash). Then there's the other place with nice and patient young people, giving the same hair-cut at a much inflated price.
really. Imagine this. This youngish-looking asian guy enters into a hair-dressing place, plops himself into the seat, and before anything happens, they get the idea "asian. that means military". I could just go to any hair dresser, sit down without saying anything, and get the same hair-cut from any place in germany.
Do they go "okayyyy. here's an asian guy. He needs a hair cut. I'll give him the asian hair cut"? Do they have a SOP for "how to: the military asian hair" in their School of
Next time, I may have to do a bruce lee impersonation of sorts to get some decent hair.
I've long given up saying that I had a haircut. I usually say "No, I had my usual accident". That seems more apt somehow (not that its an accident from their point of view), especially when its not what I intended to have. Despite the amount of protests I raised, I've yet to find a hair-dresser who would "give the customer what he wants".
