Two things important about today's haircut at Supercuts. First of all, after patiently waiting for close to a year, I finally succeeded in getting 8 haircuts punched on my Supercuts card, thus ensuring that my next one is free! Of course, this will inevitably put me in the uncomfortable position of trying to figure out the barber's tip. Do I tip when I didn't pay? Yes, I figure I should. But I hate the ambiguity of tipping rules. Except for at restaurants, I simply don't have any kind of reliable social more to guide me in when I should and should not tip, and how much. It's so aggravating, as I get very defensive at the coffeeshop when they give me dirty looks for not putting money in the tip jar. I am about two cappucinos away from yelling at that girl and explaining to her that pouring coffee in a cup does not, from my angle, justify me giving her anything more than the cost of my cup of coffee! She makes minimum wage. Still, some days I round up, some days I don't, and I oscillate between guilt and frustration almost every time.
The second thing is that with this haircut, I was granted the very cool view of the back of my hairdo with the little handheld mirror, at which point I realized that I really am going bald. Yes, it is true. Scott - the man whose front, back and behind is completely covered in densely matted bodyhair and who probably has more of a right to be considered the Big Foot of Blogdom than the phanton Jim Hart does - has, so to speak, opened the moonroof on his family sedan. It's not total baldness - it's just this little patch at the top. I kind of look like I'm growing one of those funny Jewish hats on my head, only instead of it being a hat I'm wearing, it's my scalp that is exposed. Still, in a way, it's kind of interesting. If I start to lose it all, I'm going to go Montel and just shave it everyday with a razor. The last thing I want to do is be one of these guys who just allows his baldness to stay in some sort of frozen, half-transformed stage of not-quite-bald. I figure - if it's going, I want it all gone, and I'll try to start a one man trend to revitalize baldness among non-fascists.
Posted by scott at August 20, 2003 12:11 AM | TrackBackScott, I doubt if this attempt at flushing him out of the woods will work. Just sit quietly against the tree in your camoflage ghillie suit and you might catch him out of the corner of your eye some twilight night.
Posted by: John Owen Butler at August 20, 2003 11:57 AMKeep this quiet, but I have laid out a net which hopefully, the next time he blogs, will catch him in the act.
Posted by: scott cunningham at August 20, 2003 03:16 PMgrow a long beard and shave your head.
Posted by: joel w at August 20, 2003 10:09 PM"...the man whose front, back and behind is completely covered in densely matted bodyhair..."
Scott, this is the sort of thing that only your wife and your mother should know about. I am now thoroughly grossed out. :-)
Oh, and I agree with Joel that you ought to "grow a long beard and shave your head." (1) It will give you the cool look of an esoteric, academic type (though perhaps with the addition of small spectacles and a regular piping habit - I can't quite decide), and (2) when you become Orthodox you'll fit right in! :-)
Posted by: Wayne at August 21, 2003 11:08 AMHah! Paige refuses to kiss me when I have a beards, so being the economist I am, after carefully weighing the costs and benefits, I have a feeling I won't ever have more than a 5:00 shadow. I miss that old scraggly beard, though, and shoulder length hair. (Not really).
Posted by: scott cunningham at August 21, 2003 01:17 PMGo for the shaved head once it becomes necessary. There isn't much sadder than watching someone going bald who is desperately trying to hang on to it to the point of looking ridiculous. What is it with all these men who have combovers? Don't they have wives who tell them how silly they look? I don't think I'll ever go bald, but if I did and I attempted a combover my wife would be the first one to say "you look like an idiot. just get rid of it all." do you wives out there not love your husbands enough to help them with their appearance?
Posted by: Ted at August 22, 2003 05:57 AMDude, did you realize you misspelled "phantom"?
Posted by: Jim at August 23, 2003 08:53 PMInteresting site, is all true ?
Posted by: Huang Kenneth at December 11, 2003 03:01 AM