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mcnally
response 30 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 01:11 UTC 2006

 It's not Supercuts who will put your neighborhood barber out of
 business, Richard, it's all the people willing to pay exorbitant
 money to live in New York who will manage to drive out all of the
 neighborhood businesses that can't be expected to make money by
 the truckload.
fitz
response 31 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 11:08 UTC 2006

John, the barber, located at Diamond & Sweet; Grand Rapids.  I think he 
charges $9 and I always tip to $12-14.  I guess that I go about five 
times/yr.

What does it do for me?  It keeps me married.  My standard grooming before
was to keep my hair secured in a rubber band.  When the shampoo took two
applications before it would foam, I cut it back to the rubber band.  Myra
persists in denying her marriage to an old hippy, so I get the haircuts so
that she won't ask me everyday if I plan to get a haircut.
richard
response 32 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 15:40 UTC 2006

re #1 anne, how can a new hairstylist earn your "trust" to cut your hair if
you don't give them a chance?  are you so vain that you won't let anybody in
your new home town touch your hair?  I mean it IS only hair after all and it
grows back ya know  :)
edina
response 33 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 15:53 UTC 2006

Jesus Christ Richard - just profess the unrequited love and be done with it.
twenex
response 34 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 15:56 UTC 2006

Jesus Christ is Richard?!

Jesus.

Christ.

Richard.
fudge
response 35 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 16:01 UTC 2006

I thought I'd already explained that to you Jeff... ;)
edina
response 36 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 16:02 UTC 2006

re 34  It would explain so much, wouldn't it?
jadecat
response 37 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 17:27 UTC 2006

resp:32 Yes, I am that vain about my hair. When I was a kid I wouldn't
even let my sister play with it- though I would play with hers for hours.

Part of the trust issue comes from the fact that of the Dr, Dentist and
Stylist I've been to in my town- none of them have been competent. Sad
huh? Well, the stylist did reasonably well with the trim- though she
couldn't remember something we'd spoken about five minutes later and
repeated the same questions. This does not bode well for her remembering
the details of a potentially complicated cut.

Besides, my hair is almost to the middle of my back- any screw up would
take quite some time to fix.
tod
response 38 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 17:40 UTC 2006

In Romania, the barbershops are hardcore.  The women come at you in these long
lab coats, fishnets, and stilletto heels.  They start off with a scalp
massage.  That beats any old Italian barber that I grew up patronizing.
Haircut is the same price though...$3
happyboy
response 39 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 17:45 UTC 2006

r36: are you saying that jesus christ has aspberger's syndrome?


THATS NOT VERY NISE BLASTFEEMUR.
tod
response 40 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 17:56 UTC 2006

Jesus on accordion would sell double platinum!
happyboy
response 41 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 17:57 UTC 2006

fuckin a dude.  with paul and the womanhaters band backing?
tod
response 42 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 15 18:25 UTC 2006

TGWDGH
(12 guys who don't go home)
keesan
response 43 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 00:34 UTC 2006

I paid 20 cents for a trim in Sofia, and got the worst haircut in my life.
They may have spent 5 minutes on me.  I only knew how to say 'shorter'.  
This is one case where a tipping system might have helped. 
janc
response 44 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 16 14:26 UTC 2006

I too like my barbershops old fashioned.  Up through college I aways got
my hair cut at the barbershop that was on the 13th floor of the
University of Michigan Hospital.  This was a little one-chair place run
by "Hap" Siebert.  "Hap" was short for "Happy".   He was like 90 years
old and hadn't missed a UofM football game since he was 18 or something
like that.  Part of his job was go around an give hair cuts to patients
in their beds, but he also did haircuts for many hospital staff and
patients.  His official prices hadn't been raised in a couple decades,
so you had to tip like 100%.  He died about 25 years ago, the building
he worked on top of no longer exists, and I don't know if the hospital
even has a barber any more.

After that I visited the church street barber shop for many years.  I
got my hair cut by the same guy there for 20 years, but since I was such
an infrequent visitor, I'm not sure he ever remembered me from time to
time.  That shop never changed in a bit in all those years.  A few years
ago it started being closed whenever I went by.  Don't know what
happened.

I tried the barbershop on Maple Road near Liberty a few times.  Kind of
a strange place.  All the conversation was about hunting, fishing, and
hog jowls.  Not really my subjects.

I've settled in a bit at the shop on Stadium (about across from Big
Georges).  I like the folks and the cuts, and the barber this time
actually remembered me from the previous visit.  Amazing.
scott
response 45 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 00:48 UTC 2006

Generally my hair is buzzed pretty short, in the summer I get that done maybe
every 2-4 weeks.  Winter comes and I stop getting it cut, and start to look
like a horse in winter with the uneven shaggy hair.  By late January I get
it buzzed down again, just to start over until the first hot day in spring.
keesan
response 46 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 01:20 UTC 2006

Scott, Emilio at Kiwanis said to say hello.
mary
response 47 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 11:22 UTC 2006

I'm offered wine with my haircut.  It almost makes it worth what
they charge. ;-)
klg
response 48 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 17 11:51 UTC 2006

"Barber'schair-donne?)
denisea
response 49 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 19 00:22 UTC 2006

I go whenever the top gets too long [which really isn't very long since I'm
keeping it short these days].  I'll have to find a new place when I move or
see if I can find the lady that used to do my hair in MI.
slynne
response 50 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 23 19:02 UTC 2006

I get my hair cut pretty infrequently. I havent ever found a stylist 
that I love here in Michigan. Sometimes I cut it myself and it looks 
ok. I did just get my haircut earlier this week after not having a 
haircut for a couple of years. It looks pretty good too. I would go 
back but this stylist is in California. Oh well. :)
twenex
response 51 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 23 19:11 UTC 2006

I used to get ny hair cut fairly infrequently, and change it every time. Since
I started losing it, I get it cut every time i think it starts looking like
I'm trying to hide my bald patch, so about eery month or so.

I live with my parents and one of them cuts my hair. Moving out will (not
"would") be traumatic in that respect, as the only place in town i've found
does a decent job charges $20 for a buzzcut, which I find rather excessive.
slynne
response 52 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 23 19:36 UTC 2006

dont worry twenex, there is this thing that happens sometimes when kids 
move out of their parents house that still allows them to see their 
folks once in a while and maybe get a haircut. It is called a "visit" 
twenex
response 53 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 23 19:37 UTC 2006

Hahah! :-)
nharmon
response 54 of 58: Mark Unseen   Feb 23 19:43 UTC 2006

Yeah, and you can even bum meals off on the parents too after the "move 
out".
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