Godson Cut
A few years back, on my way from West Coast to East
Coast U.S.A. for school, I dropped by to visit good
friends of mine who's son is my godson.
On this particular occasion he would have been about
10 years old, and I had cut his hair for him several
times during various visits over the previous couple
of years.
I kind of became his personal barber after he had
gotten a buzz cut one summer (because he had wanted to
get a haircut like mine!) within a couple of weeks of
one of my visits there.
If I do say so myself, it was not a very good cut, as
it had been done at a Mall "Chop Shop". I offered to
fix it up for him, and from that point on, he always
expected me to do his haircuts for him. Either he
would ask me to cut his hair, or I would suggest that
he let me cut it for him when it started looking
shaggy. Over the years we tried several different
varieties of crew cuts, flattops, brush cuts, etc.
This is the story of the little guys first #2 Butch.
We were going to cut his hair one night, but it seemed
that we just did not manage to get around to it, and
we decided to take care of it in the morning.
So when the next morning came, I went to wake up my
godson to take care of the haircut before he had to go
to school.
He was being real lazy, and would not get up.
I told him: "You've gotta get up so that we can get
your hair cut and get you ready for school."
So he said: "Awwww - just cut it here, I don't feel
like getting up."
I said: "You expect me to cut your hair while your
lying there in bed?! Come on, get up."
He retorted: "Yeah - just do it here!"
So I half-jokingly just said: "OK - I'm plugging in
the clippers right here, and I'm going to give you
your buzz right here!" - and I plugged them in, and
put on the attachment.
Then hew said: "OK, just do it here!"
So I turned on the clippers, and while they were
buzzing to life, I held them close to my godson's
forehead and said: "Alright, I'm going to cut your
hair right here then, if you don't get up."
He said: "OK - GO FOR IT!!"
So I took the clipper with the #2 attachment and
plowed into his thick, straight blond hair, and went
from front to back along the top of his head for about
3 passes.
At this, my godson got so excited about the whole
matter, that he jumped up and ran to the bathroom
mirror to look at the top of his head where the
clippers had swiped across leaving #2 length strips in
the midst of his mop.
At first he said: "Oh, no - oh,no!", and ran his hand
over the strips where the hair had been shorn.
I told him: "Well, you gotta let me finish, then it
will look a lot better - you'll see."
So I proceeded to buzz all the rest of the hair on his
head to a #2 length, and then tapered up the sides
with a #1 length, and outlined with the edger.
I had my godson run downstairs to the shower and clean
up and get dressed for school while I cleaned up all
the hair (there was quite a mess of it!).
When he came back, he was looking like one cool, sharp
dude with his #2 blond butch, ready to go styling to
school.
I told him that he was looking real sharp, and that it
was a nice variation from some of the flattops and
brush cuts he had had in the past.
He agreed, and found that he actually liked the cut.
He looked real good and clean cut with it.
It was such a great feeling to have worked with my
godson and good buddy to transform him from a little
shaggy muffin boy into a sharp looking young man,
ready to take on the day!
THE END