I MISS THE OLD BARBER SHOP

Thursday, April 03, 2008

A lovely lady cut my hair this morning. She did a good job. For years I have been getting my hair cut at beauty salons. The salons are neat, clean and very professional.

But I miss the old barber shop. There were no women there—just “good ol boys.” They had usually been trained at the local barber’s college and didn’t seem to have learned much. They would always ask, “How would you like it” and then proceed to cut it the way they wanted to. They often told dirty jokes regardless of who was in the shop. They talked baseball, politics and sometimes religion. I never got the impression they knew very much about anything.

But I miss them! I miss the old barber pole. I loved to walk by the shop and look at the pole even when I didn’t need a hair cut. Barber shops were about the “guy thing”. I miss that!