Barbershop haircuts

[dr_tectonic]

I got a haircut today, and it may well be the shortest my hair has ever been. I think it looks pretty good though. I used to occasionally get my hair cut at a barbershop a couple blocks away, but the building it was in got torn down, and I didn't know where it relocated to. But! I found it the other day! It's behind the barbecue place across the highway from where it used to be!

And just the other day the hair place (is Fantastic Sam's a 'hair salon'?) a block away from us that I went to all the time closed down, so I needed to find a new place to get my hair cut, especially now that I can't drop by anyplace in Boulder after work (since I am sans auto all summer). So it was a nice bit of timing on the universe's part that I rediscovered it just when I needed to.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that having your hair cut at a barber's by a... well, a cowboy, basically, is a very different experience than getting it cut at a hair salon by a small asian woman. My only complaint is that I have to remember to take my checkbook, because they don't take credit cards and I never have cash.

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Speaking of credit/debit cards

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I've become disgusted with businesses/credit/debit card machine companies that now require a min purchase to use credit/debit cards. Sooo inconvient when a lot of us rarely keep cash, or a lot of it on us on a regular basis.

I almost never use my check book, except to pay bills by mail and/or the rent.

Re: Speaking of credit/debit cards

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

I think it's because the credit card companies charge the vendor a flat fee per transaction, and if they're a small business or a new customer, the fees can eat up their profits entirely on small transactions, so they don't want $1 charges because they'll actually lose money. Which I can totally understand, but I agree, it's still inconvenient.

[drdeleto.livejournal.com]

That place still called Louie's? I got my first haircut there. My dad refused to go anywhere else for a long, long time. I think he was just allergic to the word "salon."

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

'Tis indeed!

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

I dunno if Louie is still cutting hair, though. I didn't see him there...

[drdeleto.livejournal.com]

He'd be pretty old by now, if he was. Not that barbering types aren't also the types to barber on till the end of their days, God bless 'em!

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Louie was only in his 40s or 50s a couple years ago -- but it could well be that he's actually Louie Jr..