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August 26, 2005

A CLOSE SHAVE (TOO CLOSE)

Fed up with waking up each morning and having to deal with a mass of untidy bed-hair, I decided on Monday night to visit the hairdresser's for a bit of a trim.

It cost me £7 and I was in there 7 minutes - good business if you're the man with the scissors. I, however, was on the receiving end and walked out of the hairdressers with a shaved head. Yes, no more tufts of hair sticking up at all angles in the early hours, no more dabbing water on and fighting the hair to make it settle and no more expensive investments in tubs of hair gel. I have joined the Grade 2 Club.

Feedback, however, has been mixed:

"Christ, that's some haircut" (as I walked into the office the following morning)

"now that's a proper haircut" (from man with shaved head)

"joining the army?"

"it ages you"

"alright baldy?" (on two different occasions)

"walked into the shears did you?"

"it looks lovely"

OK I made that last one up to try to redress the balance, but perhaps the overwhelming majority of criticisers have a point - did I really need to have my head shaved? Couldn't I have just had a trim and walked out neater and tidier and more manageable? Well, no, frankly - it's my hair and I'll decide what happens to it, and in any case, it's sure to grow back and I can decide what to do with it then.

Or is it...?

Posted by jonola14 at August 26, 2005 1:11 PM