Shunned

[Sir Harry]

I ran into the same thing years ago. My old barber, who I patronized once a mobth, sat down in a cafe and totally ignored me. Oh well, c'est la vie.

Oh, well....his loss, not yours, Tom.

[BuzzDawg]

Perhaps I'm too nice, but when I first went sly I gave people the benefit of the doubt if they ignored me, and assumed they simply didn't recognize me with my awesome new look!

Sounds like you're putting a healthy, humorous spin on this, cave dweller. I mean, it's not like they butchered your son's hair, or said, "We don't cotton to your kind 'round these parts...there's the door, buddy!"

[Ming the Merciless]

Self-shaved ten minutes back, I'll be walking by the window of my former barber in about twenty minutes.  I smile a little inside, but am sure there are frowns on the other side of the glass.  Sorry, guys!  Maybe if you started offering pedicures?

[clipped]

Over the years, my barber, at both his suggestion (& my wife's suggestion) & my request cut my hair shorter & shorter, getting down to a 0 buzz. If it weren't for him, I would not have had the courage to go to a buzz cut.  Realizing that my hair loss was progressing, I asked the barber if I had  enough hair left for a flattop.  So, I tried that one winter, then went back to the 0 buzz for the summer. Next winter, I went back to the flattop. After a few months the barber said that he just could not do the flat anymore; that I didn't have enough hair for him to work with.  He recommended taking it all off, saying that the 0 buzz looked best on me, and on men in general with hair loss. Shortly after that, I purchased my own clipper with changeable blades, and have been back to him only a few times with my son. Once when he was buzzing me down, I told him that I had razor shaved while on vacation. His only comment, which surprised me, was asking if it "hurt" (It didn't...he doesn't do razor shaves). My point is that a good barber will give you good advice as mine did and help you find a good style haircut, even if that is clipper shaved or bald and he looses the business.

[DC]

I know the feeling. The last time my son and I went to our cutters, I joked and said that only one of us was getting cut . Needless to say, the stylist wasn't that amused. My cousin now cuts my son's hair and likes me bald.

[Michael]

I'd be joking around with the other people waiting. I'd say I just asked for a little off the top...

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