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Nov /2000



I Closed my eyes and..

By Digital Shave 

First off all, I went to the best of my normal barbers today Don Pope, In New Albany, IN. I only go to him for one reason he works very slow haircuts take generally 25 to 35 minutes each. (Very Good);).

Over the past few months I have been making vague joking comments about the lengths of hair he chooses to leave on his preceeding customers. For example there was a 35 - 40 year old gentleman, who I believe runs a camera shop, had a very large mass of very straight greyish blonde hair on his head, combed to appear medium length but really more like 8 - 10 inch strands piled on top. While reading the paper I overheard that he was going to his Marine class reunion but Don left his hair in the same mass of hair but only 4-6 in long. When it was my turn in the chair I jokingly commented to Don that if I were him, after hearing that tid bit of informtaion I would have made him look more like a marine, and cut his hair under an inch or two. After these joking comments on three out of eight trips to his shop he accuse me of having a hatered of hair. I denied the accusation because I was only making the observations because I believe he may be a hair fetishist. On several other trips I have tried to no avail to convince him to retake up the almost lost art of straight razor shaving, which around the ears he does very well. During one of these attempts I offhandedly mentioned that I wished to learn to shave with a straight razor, and to one day shave my head.

Well when I entered his shop today it was raining, and there were seven other men waiting. After waiting for almost three hours when it was my turn in the chair, I instructed him that I wanted a high and tight and if he had changed his no shaving policy I would like one. He ignored my second comment and began cutting he stopped to ask about the length in front and I said that he could go a tiny bit shorter under the then one half inch. Well with that said I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling of the clippers against my skin. My eyes remained closed until the cape was removed. I payed him and started to leave when I noticed that I WAS TOTALLY BALD!!!! All hair was gone with the exception of sixteenth inch stubble. This sight both excited me and sickened me, excited me because I had wanted to go this short for years but didn't have the guts and sickened me because of the shock of the suddenness of it all and his complete disregard for the obvious next step of hot lather and straight razor. So i left partially exstatic and partially pissed off. I within twenty minutes of staring into my car's rearview mirror liked it, but the newest problem is that because of college I live with my parents whom hate the idea of shaven heads. So do I lie, or just take the insults and possible eviction from the house. But all turned out ok in that area my new problem is that I now like this look and want to complete it, what do I do?????

The End