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Redux: Cuttin'

Sep 15, 2007
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Cuttin'

I'm at the shop this week and my barber and I are debating the merits of the movie I, Robot when another customer gets a bit loud.

"Dammit i have been in the barber business for 45 years. Dale [My barber] was in grade school when i was starting my haircutting. So when I say this I know full well of what i speak" (seriously that is how he spoke)

"The Japanese, the Thai and especially the KO-reans have all learned to cut hair. They are driving Black barbers out of business"

ME:Um...I have never seen a korean cut black hair

"Man, you just a youngster. You don't know. They are running us out"

My barber, said to pay him no mind as he was crazy. Considering the shop is named after the barber who is in jail for shooting someone in the buttocks, on two occasions, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the clientele.

So I wrote the above in 2004, and I now go to a new shop to get my cut and sure enough, there is a Korean guy cuttin' . I still think that guy was a fruitcake but `i lost my notes on his other grand theories of the World.