Odd happening today, haircut with my barber from 20 years ago

[underpants]

I make my haircut appointments on an app. No waiting time.

I get there. I’m next. She says, “You look familiar”
I have no idea. She has a mask on.
“Your eyes look familiar” - no she wasn’t hitting on me.
She has my name on the ticket and I plop down in the chair and say “I really just need it thinned out (grabbing hair above the ears) up here”. I guess it’s a unique thing I do.

“Oh my God. You’re _____ from the John Marshall!” Old Richmond barbershop. Every Governor has for 30-40 years gotten at least one haircut there.
I jumped up and twirled around in the chair to
look at her name tag. I jumped back up and we hugged.

She was pregnant 20 years ago the same time my wife was. We literally caught up on 20 years. Shes had a bit of a rough time but seems like things are going well now.

“Like always?” She asked. “Yeah” go ahead. She remembered that I used to leave hair to stick behind my ears. “No I changed that after no one else got it right”. No notes. She remembered my haircut like it was yesterday.

[erronis]

1. My barber is a fool - he cuts his own hair.

I know many women establish huge trust connections with their hair dressers. Probably tell them things they wouldn't tell their spouses or best friends.

That's a great story about the recognition you both had and the memories that come flooding back.

[underpants]

2. Definitely. There are many barbershop - hairstylist cultures.

You find out a lot getting your haircut or in the smoking area.

[catchnrelease]

5. You are 100% correct

I had the same guy from my late 20s until a year ago and I'm now 75! He only retired because he physically couldn't do it any longer. I gave him and his wife gifts when their three kids were born, if I needed any kind of information or recommendation for a service--he knew 'a guy'. We managed to work it out during covid so I never missed a cut/color, lol.

We definitely shared personal things that no one else was privy to. We considered each other family by the last years. Seems kind of weird thinking about it now, being so close to someone that I only saw for a few hours every 5 or 6 weeks. It was a shock when he called to say he had to retire. I miss him now, but I know he's still available to give advice if I need it.

[3Hotdogs]

10. I use the same dumbass barber. It doesn't matter that I look like shit. I'm 83 and even if I put on a tux,

I ain't gonna get laid tonight.

My step daughter comes down from the second floor and trims the back of my head, where I can't see.

----- Still looks like shit.

[erronis]

14. Yup - the back of my head is a patchwork of where the electric razor went, and didn't.

[marble falls]

3. Cherish this. All I have from the past is the memories. the people and places are gone.

[niyad]

4. What a wonderful moment. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I haven't had a really good haircut since I left the Coast, and my favourite cutter, over 30 years ago.

[jfz9580m]

7. That's some memory

Pay no attention to the deleted post upthread. Too complicated ;-/. I am trying to shore up my memory and get to know the community a little and some of the results are cringey.. seriously can’t a human ever catch a break 🙄? (Damn buggy psychoanalytics/soc engg built web in an economy structured by people like that ass James Buchanan and rubbish like nudge theory..)

What is your haircut underpants ? I didn’t know there was more than one kind for most men .

Btw I am DUer jfz9580m. Thanks to that sparkling handle no one ever seems to remember me. No one did back when I was nam78_two either. But I remember you..

I remember your posts that is…..

[MissouriDem47]

8. My Wife Cuts My Hair

When we got married I was going to a guy that was a hair stylist and did a great job. But every time he bought a different car his prices went up. I got tired of helping with his car payments.

[WmChris]

13. Mine too

What little I have left she trims around the edges. The price is right and she does a good job, after all she has to look at it on a daily basis.

[3Hotdogs]

9. My favorite barber, Mr. Masi. He was in his 90's, still cutting hair one day a week.

HIs claim to fame --- he cut Buffalo Bill Cody'a hair when the Wild West show came to Newark, N.J. If you ever saw a photo of Buffalo Bill, you'd know this was important

He would cut, here and there. Finish. Then step back and look at it. Pick up the scissors and make one or two more swipes (possibly cutting nothing). Then he would step back again, always ending the cut with the same quote:

"Trifling makes perfection and perfection is no trifle,"


And all that for $2.00.

[marble falls]

11. We had a barber that old in Pender, Ne. Every male in town who went to him got the same same damn haircut. $6.00. ...

... He coulda used a Flobee and got us off the chair a lot quicker.

[underpants]

12. Cody had him a 'do alright

Great story.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. I Vaguely Remember What A Haur Cut Is!

Kidding. I had my last full haircut 8 or 9 months before I retired.
I retired 7 years ago!
Well, I had a couple inches taken off a couple years ago, I think.
That's why I vaguely remember haircuts.
Cool that you had this reconnecting. Pretty fun.
I had a similar thing at Guitar Center. Ran into a guy that was a 13 year old guitar student in the late 80s.
I'm asking him how long his daughter has been playing guitar. (She looked about 16)
He then says "Hey, aren't you GAC (using my first name)?"
He tells me he took guitar lessons from me when he was a kid. Never would have recognized him as he's around 50 now.
The daughter is the younger kid, but his son plays too.
Was fun to bump into somebody I haven't seen for over 35 years.
Don't know about you, but I was surprised he remembered me.