re: Small talk while you&#39;re getting your hair cut

Posted by SG_Geaux

Beautiful St George, LA

Member since Aug 2004

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Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:02 pm to Geauxdhan08

Man some of you guys sound like miserable people.

Posted by TheCaterpillar

Member since Jan 2004

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Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:03 pm to Geauxdhan08

I straight up fall asleep sometimes when I get a hair cut. For some reason it really relaxes me.

My barber says its pretty common.

Sometimes I'll drink a beer though instead. I love going to the barber. $20 before tip, straight razor my neck, and give me a solid IPA for free to sip on.

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Posted by Loungefly85

Lafayette

Member since Jul 2016

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Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:03 pm to Ingeniero

Is that the gaysian by the cookie place by LSU?

That guy was cracking me up when I went get my hair cut last week.

Posted by Pepe Lepew

Looney tuned .....

Member since Oct 2008

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Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:04 pm to Geauxdhan08

Them "how's it hanging"

Me "short"

Posted by ChewyDante

Member since Jan 2007

17230 posts

Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:06 pm to Geauxdhan08

I went in one time and had a psycho bitch talking to me nonstop about her drama with her fellow coworkers (she was only one there at this time). I get my hair cut pretty short, simple haircut. Doesn't take long. I'm the only one in there and this shite took an hour. She never shut up the whole time. It was incredibly awkward and uncomfortable, but I couldn't piss her off because she had all the power over my hair at that moment.

Maybe ask a question or two to be affable but if I don't go out of my way to be chatty with them I wish they'd just stfu and cut my damn hair so I can gtfo.

This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 3:13 pm

Posted by ChewyDante

Member since Jan 2007

17230 posts

Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:09 pm to TheCaterpillar

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I straight up fall asleep sometimes when I get a hair cut. For some reason it really relaxes me.

I've never actually fallen asleep, because I've put immense thought and effort into staying awake when it happens, but I've had a wobbly head a time or two from being close.

If I'm at all drowsy I try to put off getting my haircut specifically because I start getting heavy eyed in the chair.

Posted by DupontsCircle

Dupont Circle

Member since Jun 2016

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Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:09 pm to Geauxdhan08

I have found one guy. He is turkish and barely speaks English. I tried asking him a few months about the Turkish uprising. Couldn't figure out WTF he was talking about. Never attempted again.

I tell him the number, STFU and tip him $10 on a $18 cut just for shutting up.

This post was edited on 10/7/16 at 3:10 pm

Posted by Geauxdhan08

Baton Rouge, LA

Member since Oct 2015

357 posts

Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:10 pm to ChewyDante

I can agree w this. The last three places I went to I've ever up with some seemingly cracked out looking people while every other person cutting hair in there looked way more normal and I couldn't hold a normal conversation with them.

Posted by slackster

Houston

Member since Mar 2009

91871 posts

Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:11 pm to Ash Williams

quote:
an 80 year old man at a barbershop has cut my hair for 3 years

Next time you should ask him what his secret is.

Posted by Jack Daniel

Gold member

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Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:13 pm to Geauxdhan08

I feel the same way. I actually want to sit there quietly and relax.

Posted by LSUFanHouston

NOLA

Member since Jul 2009

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Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:13 pm to Geauxdhan08

Buy razor, shave head.

/thread

But before I started doing that, I usually went to either a barbershop with 4 old arse male barbers who had a language that was 70% vulgar, so I enjoyed talking to them, or I went to Roosters or Sports Clips where it usually was a decent looking chick.

Posted by LSUFanHouston

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Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:16 pm to TheCaterpillar

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Sometimes I'll drink a beer though instead. I love going to the barber. $20 before tip, straight razor my neck, and give me a solid IPA for free to sip on.

I don't understand why more barbershops don't do this. I'd pay $5 extra for this, plus, I'd actually go. 6 pack of a good IPA is maybe $10 at most, so he's making an extra 20 on every 6 haircuts, PLUS, he's probably bringing in more people.

Place in Katy called Roosters used to give me a beer, but it was Bud Light.

Posted by Mope

Member since Nov 2015

310 posts

Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:27 pm to Geauxdhan08

I agree 100%.

Posted by Five0

Member since Dec 2009

11354 posts

Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:37 pm to Geauxdhan08

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Without clicking on link I'm guessing it's from gran tourino

Damn right you WOP greaseball.

Posted by TheCaterpillar

Member since Jan 2004

76774 posts

Posted on 10/7/16 at 3:41 pm to LSUFanHouston

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I don't understand why more barbershops don't do this. I'd pay $5 extra for this, plus, I'd actually go. 6 pack of a good IPA is maybe $10 at most, so he's making an extra 20 on every 6 haircuts, PLUS, he's probably bringing in more people.

Place in Katy called Roosters used to give me a beer, but it was Bud Light.

Its usually against the law. Mine can do it legally because some chick that works in there has some kind of beautician license which allows her to serve booze...or something like that.

But they'll give it to me when she's not there, which they've told me is definitely against the law. Ironically, I have seen police in there getting their hair cut a few times and they've still given me a beer.

Because honestly, who gives a frick.