A quick survey of my 4 or so readers

I HATE getting my hair cut. 

A few things I would rather do than get my hair cut include:
- change the oil on my car (myself)
- paint my house in the hot sun
- fly long distances (including dealing with security checks)
- suffer a nasty hangover
- have my teeth worked on

You get the idea.  I really don’t like getting my hair cut.

So, I’m wondering, am I nuts?  Cuz I totally think there’s be a market for a hair salon where they’d give you nitrous oxide and knock you out until the whole unpleasant experience was over.

Posted by 'mouse on 09/18 at 12:38 PM

  1. While I mull over my vote, I will take the opportunity to conduct a little poll of my own.

    1. Psychotic break.
    2. Random chaos.
    3. Nitrous oxide haircuts.

    My question: Does anyone else see a trend forming here?

    Next thing we know, our friend will be looking forward to the cool, winter months, just so he can slip into his favorite <strike>winter</strike> straight jacket.

    Posted by Keith  on  09/18  at  12:52 PM

  2. You are not nuts.  Lloyd hates getting his hair cut, too.  Hates having his head shampooed by others.  Hates having to look at himself in the mirror in that silly smock.  Hates how he can almost never find someone to cut it exactly the way he likes it.

    Now I, on the other hand, kind of like getting my hair cut; I dig the whole salon experience and I really like the oo-ing and ahh-ing everyone does when my hair is finally dry and the stylist brushes it out.  And yet…the last time I had a haircut was in May 2004, less than a month before I left for Arkansas.  I have not had a haircut in 28 months.

    In short…no, sir, it’s not you.  :)

    Posted by Bakerina  on  09/18  at  12:55 PM

  3. Of course, by the time I finished posting, Keith’s comment showed up.  I may now have to rethink that whole “‘mouse is not nuts” stance.  ;)

    Posted by Bakerina  on  09/18  at  12:56 PM

  4. Don’t worry, Bakerina.  Many of us are constantly rethinking that same question.

    Posted by Keith  on  09/18  at  01:05 PM

  5. sedation dentistry i’m familiar wish, but sedation haircutting:  i don’t know, i think they only use that on kids in the form of grape blowpops.

    critical question tho, are you getting it cut by a man or a woman?

    curious and choaticly yours,G

    Posted by goliard  on  09/19  at  08:59 AM

  6. i can’t remember back that far.  occasionally i pick up the hank and whack 6 inches or so off the end with the pruning shears but really? not so lately.

    Posted by e  on  09/19  at  04:13 PM

  7. May I suggest adding more stress to your life.  Your hair will fall out naturally and you won’t require haircuts.

    Posted by Keith  on  09/19  at  04:43 PM

  8. I love the result but hate the process.  I used to cut my own hair, and then carry scissors with me and let my friends fix the messy bits.  Very interactive!  Not terribly successful.

    Posted by carrot  on  09/19  at  11:57 PM

  9. Oh, ‘mouse, perhaps you haven’t found the right stylist.  My sweetly charming,  lives-in-cohousing, architecture-loving gay hairstylist gives just about the best scalp and neck massage I’ve ever had from someone who was not a massage therapist. And he gives me a great haircut. Sure, I hate the damn smocks, and the big mirrors, but overall I enjoy trips to the salon.

    (And I second goliard’s question.)

    Posted by kimberly  on  09/20  at  09:12 PM

  10. yesss, think he’ll actually answer it now, or continue dodging us as long as he possibly can?

    Posted by goliard  on  09/21  at  09:26 AM

  11. I can’t believe I’ve found another person who feels the same way I do about haircuts.  The reason why I’d prefer walking barefoot through a yard paved with broken bottles than get my haircut (or “styled”) is that I don’t like having to chit chat about my life with a stranger, resist sales pitches for expensive products, and be diagnosed as someone with very fine but thick hair as though this would be news to me.

    This is a great blog—I’m glad that I linked here from Kimberley’s.

    Posted by joanna  on  09/21  at  09:29 PM

  12. Hi, Joanna.  Welcome.  Updating is splotchy, but sometimes happens. 

    I agree much of the issue is the mindless chit-chat.  Recently I’ve found a lady who speaks almost no English and seems friendly enough and willing to just do the deed pretty quietly given my large-relative-to-her-salon’s-cheap-cuts tips. 

    It’s also, I suppose, about the rather intimate touching by a stranger who could pretty much care less about you. 

    To answer the question posed by Goliard and Kimberly, I’ve tried all the the available genders and sexualities.  More often than not I end up circling back to vietnamese women, in search of near-silence and their work ethic.

    What I’d really like is someone to cut my hair who loves me and wants me to look good.  Someone to whom I can say, “just make me look good, like you’d like me to look if you were going out with me tonight,” and have them do it.

    Posted by 'mouse  on  09/22  at  08:40 AM

  13. ok then, quid pro quo, i’ll say that i’ve never been comfortable with a man cutting my hair, under any circumstances.  but then, i haven’t had a haircut in about 6 years now….

    and thanks ‘mouse, apparently there are more than four of us*) and we so desperately needed closure…

    Posted by goliard  on  09/22  at  10:35 AM

  14. I hate it so much I just don’t do it.  Every few years hubby whcks off half a foot of split ands and i’m good to go again.  I cut hubby’s hair (he’s grown his to shoulder length and I trim it straight accross) middle boy (buzz cut) and baby girl (middle of back, straight accross) oldest boy prefers a salon.  Can’t blame him, the only cuts I do are buzzed and straight accross.

    Posted by Louise  on  09/28  at  01:55 PM

  15. Interesting. I’ve heard people hating to go to the dentist but never getting a haircut! You learn something new every day.

    Posted by Rhea  on  09/29  at  06:54 AM

  16. Rhea, speaking of dentists,the worst dental experience I had was in Jamaica Plain (I think. . .it was,  or else nearby?). I was a four year-old fidgeter who wouldn’t calm down to let the dentist look at my teeth. Finally, he slapped me to calm me down.  In time, I learned that he was an alcoholic who left dentistry and drink to become a social worker helping other dentists deal with anger management.

    Posted by joanna  on  09/30  at  12:33 PM
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