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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Drama / Human Interest
- Subject: Comedy / Humor
- Published: 12/10/2019
It's just hair
Born 1953, F, from Auckland, New ZealandYou would think a trip to the hairdressers is no big deal.
To me, it is. I hate sitting and making small talk. I just want in and out. If it's a hair dye I will do it myself as that's too time-consuming. Every time I have had a hair dye at a hairdressers it's a disaster. if I screw it up I only have myself to blame.
Also, it's a last-minute thing. I want my hair cut when it's driving me crazy and if that is right now then that's that. If no one is open I will cut it myself. That's what happens when you have a very thick unmanageable mob. Curly of one side and straight on the other.
Suddenly it grows overnight and it has to go.
Hence I use the hairdressers in the mall where you don't have to make an appointment. In and out in 15 minutes. You don't talk, you scroll through your phone and pretend to be busy.
I figure they have to make the same small talk with every customer so a nice quiet one can be a good change for them.
So this is where my story starts. Today's hair cut.
I walk in and ask if she has time to cut my hair and was told to take a seat. I said I'd come back in a few minutes and went around the corner to see how busy the other hairdresser was. Too busy so back to the first one.
Sat for 5 minutes or more.
My turn.
She is by herself apart from a young lady that wasn't cutting hair just doing waxing. After 3 phone calls she finally gets started on mine. Stops suddenly and calls the young lady that was doing the waxing out and says. ”I need a doughnut.”
What, I'm thinking. Can your doughnut not wait, you are cutting my hair and a doughnut comes to mind. I control any laughter and still sit in silence.
She then starts telling me about the lady sitting next to me waiting for her hair to be dyed.
She was in ears reach and I was being told how this poor soul had a scalp complaint and had to bring her own hair dye.
Doughnut arrives and the world stopped. She leaves me sitting in my chair and goes to eat her morning donut and drink her tea.
Okay so back to my hair after the doughnut and a couple more phone calls. Cutting away and I'm thinking, I should be out of here in about 15 minutes and then out of the blue she stops again and announced she has to go to the loo.
Well we all know when you have to go you just have to go.
She takes her voice to the next level and tells the other customers waiting that she will have to shut the shop so that she can have a toilet break.
At this stage, I asked where the other girl had gone and she told me she was probably out window shopping and that the shop had 2 other hairdressers but they had not turned up for work that day.
Okay we are now back on track for a further 5 minutes and yes she stopped again. Walks around to the front of me and asks if it's okay to go and put the hair dye into the other customers hair.
I politely ask how long she would be and she casually told me about 40 minutes.
My 15 minute hair trim had well come and gone so I politely told her NO it would not be okay.
She accepted the NO and carried on cutting. 20 minutes later she had finished up and on to the next customer.
The entire operation was over an hour. No anesthesia required just another story to tell.
The End
It's just hair(Gail Moore)
You would think a trip to the hairdressers is no big deal.
To me, it is. I hate sitting and making small talk. I just want in and out. If it's a hair dye I will do it myself as that's too time-consuming. Every time I have had a hair dye at a hairdressers it's a disaster. if I screw it up I only have myself to blame.
Also, it's a last-minute thing. I want my hair cut when it's driving me crazy and if that is right now then that's that. If no one is open I will cut it myself. That's what happens when you have a very thick unmanageable mob. Curly of one side and straight on the other.
Suddenly it grows overnight and it has to go.
Hence I use the hairdressers in the mall where you don't have to make an appointment. In and out in 15 minutes. You don't talk, you scroll through your phone and pretend to be busy.
I figure they have to make the same small talk with every customer so a nice quiet one can be a good change for them.
So this is where my story starts. Today's hair cut.
I walk in and ask if she has time to cut my hair and was told to take a seat. I said I'd come back in a few minutes and went around the corner to see how busy the other hairdresser was. Too busy so back to the first one.
Sat for 5 minutes or more.
My turn.
She is by herself apart from a young lady that wasn't cutting hair just doing waxing. After 3 phone calls she finally gets started on mine. Stops suddenly and calls the young lady that was doing the waxing out and says. ”I need a doughnut.”
What, I'm thinking. Can your doughnut not wait, you are cutting my hair and a doughnut comes to mind. I control any laughter and still sit in silence.
She then starts telling me about the lady sitting next to me waiting for her hair to be dyed.
She was in ears reach and I was being told how this poor soul had a scalp complaint and had to bring her own hair dye.
Doughnut arrives and the world stopped. She leaves me sitting in my chair and goes to eat her morning donut and drink her tea.
Okay so back to my hair after the doughnut and a couple more phone calls. Cutting away and I'm thinking, I should be out of here in about 15 minutes and then out of the blue she stops again and announced she has to go to the loo.
Well we all know when you have to go you just have to go.
She takes her voice to the next level and tells the other customers waiting that she will have to shut the shop so that she can have a toilet break.
At this stage, I asked where the other girl had gone and she told me she was probably out window shopping and that the shop had 2 other hairdressers but they had not turned up for work that day.
Okay we are now back on track for a further 5 minutes and yes she stopped again. Walks around to the front of me and asks if it's okay to go and put the hair dye into the other customers hair.
I politely ask how long she would be and she casually told me about 40 minutes.
My 15 minute hair trim had well come and gone so I politely told her NO it would not be okay.
She accepted the NO and carried on cutting. 20 minutes later she had finished up and on to the next customer.
The entire operation was over an hour. No anesthesia required just another story to tell.
The End
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Cam Rascoe
05/02/2020I enjoyed this read Gail, the nerve of some people. Does she not realize that she is in the service industry. I may not know much about haircuts anymore due to my baldness but I do know quite a bit about customer service.
You are a patient and kind woman; I couldn't imagine my wife in this situation. Heads might have rolled. :)
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Gail Moore
05/02/2020Thank you very much Cam,
I have as yet to get my hair cut again. If nothing else it made for a good story :-)
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Jane Lockyer Willis
12/19/2019Your story titles are really good and make you want to read on.
i detest going to the hairdressers as well so have someone to come to my home to cut my hair.
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Jane Lockyer Willis
12/19/2019Keep thinking up your short gutsy titles, avoid making your stories too far fetched and you won't go far wrong.
A promising writer. Have a jolly Christmas!
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Gail Moore
12/19/2019Thanks so much for reading and your lovely comment. Now there's a plan. A mobile hairdresser.
Thanks for the thought.
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JD
12/15/2019The 'fast food' type hair salon you've described is certainly not as advertised... more like a dive bar that thinks it's a five star rated restaurant where people will expect to wait an hour to be served! Hard to believe it's a true story and that gal actually thought it would be okay to make you wait another hour for her to finish with the other person. I would have been so furious I would never have gone back. Crazy story! Thanks for sharing Gail. Hope you find a better place for the next time you need a cut.
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Gail Moore
12/15/2019JD, I would have been furious only when i walked out Shane was waiting and said to me wow I really like your style. She made a really good job of it.
Normally he doesn't even notice. Haha
Job well done, worth the comedy act.
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Jason James Parker
12/10/2019What an experience, Gail.
I completely agree about the small talk; this is why I have been cutting my own hair for ten years. Great story!
I need a doughnut now.
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