I started getting a flattop a couple of years ago, and got some really great haircuts from a barber who decided to retire a couple of months later. Since then, I've found a couple of barbers who I'd trust to do a decent flattop, and have pretty much stuck with them.

I like the boxy look, though, and none of them really could get it quite right. Last December, I decided to try a shop I'd heard about, even though it was a little out of my way. I wasn't disappointed - the barber did a nice flattop, and I went back a couple weeks later. I don't know if he'd mistaken me for somebody else, or just thought that I wanted it a lot shorter since I was back after only two weeks. 

The first hint I got that he wasn't giving me my 'usual' haircut was when I felt the clippers going WAY up over the crown, then WAY up the sides! I wound up with a h&t flattop, with the back and sides one step away from shaved - I'm pretty sure he used an edger on them, because they looked and felt like sandpaper when he'd finished. When he turned me around to see the finished cut, I wanted to cry. All I could do was pay him and leave... I just wanted to hide somewhere, I hated how it looked that much. And right before Christmas, too!