Television actors, they say, get haircuts every two weeks so the character they play always looks the same from show to show. I get mine cut every five weeks, so my hair varies in length. Lately it’s been getting quite long. Over the winter, at Donna’s request, I had it trimmed but not really cut. My locks attained a length not seen since 1973, the year I joined the Air Force.
And I hated it. Bernice, I said to my barber this morning, this shagginess cannot stand. Here’s the before & after:
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Although I must say, short haircuts on men is the standard again, and I make too much of having been military. Time was you could tell civilians from GIs by the length of their hair; it hasn’t been that way for 30 years or more.
But enough about me. How’s your day going? Indictment-free, I hope!
Looks noticeable better. But you have a better head of hair than me even though you’re older. And it’s still a fading gray color instead of my Santa white remaining hair. I still have lots of functioning follicles top and back and sides but when it got more gappy and thin at the front I went for the quarter inch buzz cut all over including the beard. My would-be Vietnamese girlfriends at Classic Touch Salon cut it all every 3-4 weeks (length of attachment 1.5). I never touch it in between either. Cool in the torrid Great Valley summers, no muss, no fuss. I look like an east European hit man though. In the winter I wear a beanie hat.
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I can hear Larry David now: “Pretty…pretty…pretty………pretty!”