Hairdressers are like Churches…
It’s not often I write lengthy posts on my blog, I normally like to keep things short and sweet. However, this was an issue that I felt needed to be discussed. I toyed about with the idea of trying to compress this observation I’ve made in to a Tweet and I thought about how to keep things as small as possible and I came to the conclusion that it would probably be best to just type as much as I need to. Besides, it may actually add to the humour.
So for a while now, my hair has been an absolute mess. Very long, very unmanageable and most of you who know me will know that it usually gets this way often and ends up ignored for the best part of 4 months. I’m sure many people who see me regularly think “hmmm… I see he’s going for the longer look this month” only to realise a few weeks later that it’s all gone again. Shocking!
There I was, sitting in the hairdresser probably looking like a ‘poof’ with a hat as far as all the other women in there were concerned. Waiting patiently to be called forward I hear “Nigel isn’t it? Would you just like to come this way please”. Realising how out of place I was, I developed a strut as I walked over to the basin to get my hair shampooed and conditioned before the barnett was chopped… much like a dog. I don’t normally strut at all, in fact, I usually find it hilarious when I see someone strutting, as if they’re any more manly than anyone else on the street… it’s the women who strut you have to worry about.
Now, when a man is getting his hair washed at the hairdresser, I wondered ‘Is it right to close my eyes?’. All the women were doing it… and I was the only man. I decided to lead by example. Eyes wide open, head tilted back, very serious face. It wouldn’t be very manly to let on that I was actually enjoying it.
With my serious face, I listened in to the conversations going on around me…
Hairdresser 1: Hmm Where’s Amanda these days? I haven’t seen her yunks
Hairdresser 2: Aye, i hear she’s going to Shek (another hairdresser) now *cheeky yet ‘matter of fact’ kind of face*
Hairdresser 1: Lisa was talking to her friend about it…mhmm.. couldn’t believe it.
This kind of chat continued… I found it highly amusing how they seemed so offended by the choice to switch hairdresser and so that’s when I realised, It’s not uncommon to hear the same kind of chat within a church community. People discussing who’s been going where, other members checking up on you. It’s all absolutely crazy.
The title of this post was what I probably would have put out on twitter, however, I felt it needed some explanation in order for people to understand what I mean… otherwise I would have just sounded like a nut……….. Which makes me think now, maybe the explanation wasn’t such a good idea and it would have been best to just leave the speculation up to the reader.
NOTE: this post is simply an observation that I found humourous and is in no way intended to be offensive.
