Monday, July 20, 2020

If Shaggy and Rapunzel Had an Elderly Baby

How's your hair?

My lovely lady-mullet has been growing like a weed. Weeds. Weeds without benefit of Roundup. The front has a mind of its own, and that mind is not on business. The back, though, is all about the party. It dips down in my collar, and out of my collar, and pretty much moves like one of those air-blower stick people on a used-car lot.

I haven't had a haircut since mid-February. Or maybe even February. I remember, because it was just before we made a late-birthday visit to Oklahoma to see The Pony. Since then, I've trimmed the bangs three or four times. It's not that I'm afraid to trim other visible parts. I just can't do it. I cannot coordinate the scissors with my view in the mirror. I'm forever snipping empty air in front of or behind the swatch of hair between my fingers.

Hick has been to his barber during this month, but had to make an appointment. No sitting around, shooting the bull for three hours, with other men escaping from under the collective thumbs of their collective wives. And Hick has hardly any hair to cut! No beard-trimming, though.

I guess I need to make a stop at Terrible Cuts. Last I heard, one of their chains in Springfield exposed about eleventy-hundred customers to the VIRUS. Yet none of them caught it. So I guess I'm just as safe as if I'd taken a Memorial Day dip in that cheek-to-cheek bar pool party at Lake of the Ozarks. Where only one person came down with the VIRUS in the month after that viral (no pun intended!) photo.

Don't even suggest letting Hick behind me with a pair of scissors! I'd never see my scissors again! They disappear like leftover pizza around here.

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    1. Thank you. I'm sure you are basking in the long-distance glow of my beauty!

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  2. I have cut my hair 3 times so far. Not around the back though, I don't want to take that much of a chance. So far I haven't totally botched it.

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    1. Well, to be fair, you're probably not looking at the back... You might be rockin' two totally different styles. A front style created by you, and a back style created by nature.

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  3. I wish my hair would grow like weeds! I haven't had a haircut in two and a half years, apart from trimming my own fringe (bangs), but I've even stopped doing that now. It hangs long enough now to sway in the breeze from my nose as I breathe, so I clip it back out of the way and hope it will soon be long enough to catch into the ponytail.

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    1. You might still have a couple years to go, to get your fringe into a ponytail!

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