Observations: Buzz cutting the future

I don’t want to live in the mangroves with an imaginary pet dog named Ernie that looks a lot like a feral pig.

By MITCH TRAPHAGEN

I’ve recently decided that it’s time to make some changes in my life. I’m a big believer in taking baby steps with such things so I started small. I visited a new-to-me South Hillsborough barber shop.

The place looked nice, it was clean and the hip young kid (At 48, I reserve the right to call anyone under 40 a kid. This kid, though, was probably 25) who was to be my barber, set me down in a chair, meticulously wrapped an apron around me, and then placed his hand on my shoulder and asked, “What can I do for you today, sir?”.

The care he took in preparation was good to see, the “sir” was a somewhat surprising perk, and the hand on my shoulder was, I thought, a nice touch coming from someone who was about to have a major influence on how the world would see me.

“I just don’t want a mullet,” I told him.

“You don’t want a moo-let,” he asked?

Moo-let?  Funny, I hadn’t noticed an accent before. After that, I didn’t understand much of what he said. One of the things about being hearing impaired is that conversation ends with a lot of surprises. He seemed like a nice young man and I was comfortable in the knowledge that there are no bad haircuts after two weeks, so I didn’t worry about it.

As I settled back into the barber chair, I looked around and noticed that all of the barbers were hip-looking young men with buzz cuts. Just after that, I noticed that all of the customers were getting buzz cuts. It was then I heard the electric razor fire up behind me.

Times are tough for nearly everyone these days, and I could certainly have saved the $12 price advertised on the board for a basic haircut. I could cut my own hair — or not. After all, cutting things deemed “unnecessary” is apparently the new cool in Florida. No one would argue that a haircut is a life or death investment.

Of course, cutting my own hair would result in me looking like I had a bad run-in with a weed whacker. But I wouldn’t care — it’s time to tighten the belt, right?  Well, after a while my figurative belt-tightening would become a literal impossibility. Once I decided that I couldn’t justify spending the money for a haircut, it’s a short hop to letting my middle-aged paunch grow into something much more…paunchy. Who cares what I look like?  Times are tough and I can’t afford to look good!  Once that takes hold, before you know it, I’ll be wearing mismatched clothes that have seen better days.

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