Hi
Prior to the lockdown I would always visit the barbers once a month for a haircut.I hated it back then due to having to wait my turn ,when I knew I had a million and one things to do elsewhere and that I would have to engage in small talk to whoever was cutting my ever receding bonce.
It would be the same conversations everytime "are you going on holiday this year" that was the most common conversation, followed by football to which I have no interest in..
With 30 minutes waiting and 15/20 minutes in the chair I was usually relieved of £10 ( goodness knows what it costs nowadays)
Then came along lockdown and everything shut down.As I live alone,cutting my own hair so it wouldn't look like Worzel Gumage wasn't going to happen so I invested in a hair trimmer from Lldl.Oh yes I really pushed the boat out and paid £12 for them.
For the last few years I've been sporting the Telly Sevales look by cropping it back to next to nothing.Once a week it gets the full treatment and has probably saved me a small fortune and time that I would never have got back.
My street cred has undoubtedly taken a serious nose dive though (not that I had any to begin with)
I was walking through town this morning and it suddenly occurred to me that the place is awash with Turkish barbers.There absolutely everywhere and each one was full of people.There was 4/5 barbers working hard away in each shop and the waiting area was bursting at the seams with people waiting.Some of them must be in there waiting for over an hour to get seen to.This wasn't just happening in one shop either,it was virtually all of them.
The funny thing is though,they were all mostly youngsters and when they came out, they all looked identical sporting there new crops.It kind of reminded of North Korea were the government only allows certain styles of hair cuts.
Thankfully I'm at a certain age where being bald is the norm so I don't get a second look which suits me just fine as I don't think I could ever consider visiting a barber ever again.
Victor Meldrew over and out 🤣
Prior to the lockdown I would always visit the barbers once a month for a haircut.I hated it back then due to having to wait my turn ,when I knew I had a million and one things to do elsewhere and that I would have to engage in small talk to whoever was cutting my ever receding bonce.
It would be the same conversations everytime "are you going on holiday this year" that was the most common conversation, followed by football to which I have no interest in..
With 30 minutes waiting and 15/20 minutes in the chair I was usually relieved of £10 ( goodness knows what it costs nowadays)
Then came along lockdown and everything shut down.As I live alone,cutting my own hair so it wouldn't look like Worzel Gumage wasn't going to happen so I invested in a hair trimmer from Lldl.Oh yes I really pushed the boat out and paid £12 for them.
For the last few years I've been sporting the Telly Sevales look by cropping it back to next to nothing.Once a week it gets the full treatment and has probably saved me a small fortune and time that I would never have got back.
My street cred has undoubtedly taken a serious nose dive though (not that I had any to begin with)
I was walking through town this morning and it suddenly occurred to me that the place is awash with Turkish barbers.There absolutely everywhere and each one was full of people.There was 4/5 barbers working hard away in each shop and the waiting area was bursting at the seams with people waiting.Some of them must be in there waiting for over an hour to get seen to.This wasn't just happening in one shop either,it was virtually all of them.
The funny thing is though,they were all mostly youngsters and when they came out, they all looked identical sporting there new crops.It kind of reminded of North Korea were the government only allows certain styles of hair cuts.
Thankfully I'm at a certain age where being bald is the norm so I don't get a second look which suits me just fine as I don't think I could ever consider visiting a barber ever again.
Victor Meldrew over and out 🤣
