Things you'd rather your hairdresser (or other trained professional) not say while doing work for you

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all true stories:

"so i did soooooooo much cocaine last night"

"i'm super tired right now because i just got back from burning man. i told myself i wasn't going to do any drugs (to which i'm thinking thank god). but then the last day i changed my mind and did a bunch of acid"

at the end of the haircut, "so, i gave you a rat tail. i figured i had to" [and yesterday's adaptation of this one, "so i kinda gave you a mullet"]

and finally the greatest one of all, "so i'm at power exchange (a sex club in SF) and i'm taking a piss and this amazingly cute guy is just staring at my cock. like he has the most beautiful eyes i've ever seen. so he just takes my cock and shoves it in his mouth and starts guzling. and i had like a cup of coffee and a few green teas. boy can i pee forever when i have to. so we ended up dating for a few months"

JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:42 (twenty years ago) link

Whoops!

Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 06:44 (twenty years ago) link

some of those are classic!

the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 07:33 (twenty years ago) link

"...of course, the needle tracks never go away completely..."

Skottie, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 07:39 (twenty years ago) link

whoa where do you go to get your hair cut?

geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 07:59 (twenty years ago) link

JasonD, is this all the same hairdresser? Want to give me a heads up so I know where to avoid next time I go into the city for a trim?

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

Haha what is it with junkie hairdressers? A friend of mine told a story how, in mid haircut, her last hairdresser ODed or passed out or something and they had to call an ambulance (!!).

Bleedin Fitzroy, honestly...

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:18 (twenty years ago) link

that sux, cause then you're left with only half a haircut

JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:22 (twenty years ago) link

these are all the same guy. and i actually continue to go back to him even after he moved locations and raised his prices. he's pretty great, just a little crazy and i love the haircuts he gives me (yeah so i have a little bit of a hipster tail/mullet going on, it's kinda fun)

and adam, if you're looking for a cheap, hip haircut, his name is chris and he works at pure beauty on haight. he used to be 14$, but since he moved he's 25$ w/o a wash. i

JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:26 (twenty years ago) link

"HI I AM THE AMAZING RANDY"

Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:36 (twenty years ago) link

Also if you're looking to drink a man's piss, he's your man.

Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 09:06 (twenty years ago) link

It couldn't be more convenient.

Skottie, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:40 (twenty years ago) link

i am quite glad my hairdresser doesn't say those things to me! Still I am glad yours does cos it made me laugh.

Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:45 (twenty years ago) link

My mum once took me to this awful hairdresser (who she met while she was working as the book keeper of a drug rehabilitation program! I mean, didn't that clue her in?) who spent the entire time trying to convince me to sign up for this dating service he was setting up - TOTALLY IGNORING MY PROTESTS THAT I ALREADY HAD A BOYFRIEND - saying that I didn't have to "do anything with them except go to dinner" - he had just signed up all these men and couldn't find any women for them.

Then the freak proceeded to put bleach on my hair, then disappear into the office with his friend for nearly an hour. When he came out, my hair - which had been halfway down my back - was so frazzled and destroyed that I had to get it all cut off.

I was more furious with my mother than with him - she had persuaded me to go to this guy, and he destroyed my hair and tried to lead me into semi-organised prostitution!

kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

nothing's worse than semi-organization

Skottie, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:55 (twenty years ago) link

Most prostitution is controlled by organised crime. This guy was such a freaking cockhead and IDIOT that it would have been very disorganised crime. Sigh.

kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:57 (twenty years ago) link

70% of British pimps are Albanian, according to British crime squad figures.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

This was in America, and not Britain, so that statistic is fairly useless, isn't it? (In fact, he was an Albanian, but meaning "Native of Albany" not Native of Albania. Unless there's something about Albany and pimps that I don't know...)

kate (kate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link

"so i did soooooooo much cocaine last night"

Haha - one hairdresser said to me, "Don't mean to offend, but I can tell you have a few 'bad habits'. Seriously, it's really obvious, it shows up in the follicles, ask any forensic pathologist. Please slow down, I'm only trying to help"

dave q, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:12 (twenty years ago) link

"my best friend and me played for Alaves, he still plays for them now, I was always better back then though, before my car crash".

my hairdresser is so cool.

Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:14 (twenty years ago) link

"it's been a year since his death, so i cut some of my hair off and sent it to him thru fire."

also(same person)

"the first guy i ever had sex with is dead. Also, the first girl i ever had sex with is dead, too."

Seriously, i love the girl, and i drive an hour for her to cut my hair into a fine pompadour, but she's led an interesting life, to put it mildly.

Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link

Heard last week at the dentist's, while she was operating in my mouth:

"Whoops, I think I dropped something!"

"Hmmm, I think we'll need more of that stuff, I wonder if the guy next door would borrow some."

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

The last thing I want is my dentist to get humorous.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

heh. see the "Dentist with a Sense of Humour" plotline from Bloom County.

Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

i forgot a really good one. (same guy) he's on the phone for at least 15 minutes while he's cutting my hair. he's explaining to his friend why he wants to leave this cheap place and go somewhere more expensive to work. he's explaining that he never gets to do finishing jobs. he never gets to blow dry. he then says, "it's been so long since i've given a blow job, my gag reflex is all arrahghahghgh (makes gagging noises)"

JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

That joke would have completely mystified Ally.

Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

Once while getting a trim (My hair is waist length), my hair stysits co-worker screamed from across the room "Oh. My god! I can't belive you are cutting all your hair off!". This sent me into fits, as I imagined my hair lying in piles on the floor. Turns out the co-worker was major spaz-case, who likes to freak people out. She doesn't work there anymore.

danielle g. (danielle g.), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:51 (twenty years ago) link

I went to this barber shop in my neighborhood once and when I started to describe to the lady what I wanted done and she says with a thick Russian accent: "Do you want a man's cut or a woman's cut?"

I was like "huh?" and she points to a sign that says:
Man's Cut - $8
Woman's Cut - $10

"Um, I guess I'll take the man's cut then." It was the worst haircut I've ever gotten in my life. I found out later that the guy who ran the place for like 40 years or something died and left it to this lady who had no idea what she was doing.

BrianB, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

So, tone of the thread:

"Experience? What's that?"

"Nevermind damn experience. That's for wusses!"

Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

I used to go to a cheap place and I would always end up getting the same creepy Puerto Rican guy cutting my hair. He would talk about going out dancing/picking up chicas at this club and try to be chummy, then toss in frightening shit like "yah, slip a little something in their drinks and have some fun, yes you know?" He got fired soon after. I hope the fucker's in prison.

Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

Bad news, he's not in prison, but he is performing in Japan!

http://www.big.net/ssbb/nextgig_images/elrio_sushi.gif

Skottie, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...
What is it with SF and hairdressers?

"I'm not prejudiced or anything, but Paul McCartney could have had any woman in the world, so why did he marry a cripple?"

"I have a friend who is so dumb he didn't know that Dutch people were from Denmark!"

@d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 December 2003 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

I had a hairdresser advise me to have cosmetic surgery to make my jaw less square... I was kind of appalled, the rest of the week I walked around wondering if I looked freakish or something. Advise me to wear bangs or something, that's one thing; advise me to have my facial bone structure altered, no.

Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

"What the hell is that?!"

El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Saturday, 13 December 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
all true stories:

"so i did soooooooo much cocaine last night"

how about doing coke right before they're supposed to cut your hair?

true story. my stylist came out and wiped her nose, then proceeded to cut my hair in like, 20 minutes. it was a great cut but i felt totally gross giving her a tip. i changed stylists after that!

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

the 2nd time before last i went to have my hair cut (2 years ago), the hairdresser went "oh man i don't know how to cut chinese hair" (whatever the fuck that means). Then said "i mean i can try and cut it but it might be crap" - he tried really hard to persuade me i should get a skinhead done!!

haha, what a dick. i kind of left soon after.

ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link

I was at the hairdresser on Thursday and the stand-in hairdresser who doesn't usually cut my hair was all "oh, I don't mean to show off, but I got asked to model in a magazine, I'm not showing off but they asked me to do a three-page spread, I'm so embarrassed" - WELL STOP TELLING A TOTAL STRANGER ABOUT IT IF YOU'RE SO EMBARRASSED. Then she was all like "I'm so glad you came in to get your hair cut, I love meeting new people" despite the fact she found out nothing at all about me other than the fact that I just shut up, let her cut my hair, and listened to her be all faux-embarrassed about her modelling contract. (my hair is dead good though)

ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

during long-ago haircut: "So then she said to me, 'I never want to see your fucking ugly face again as long as I live.' So that's kind of a mixed message, wouldn't you say?" (this guy often asks my advice, though not about love so much, since he got married) (and i am fond of him, and tried to let him down firm and easy w.my advice on this)

during dental exam: "Ohh, you almost NEVER see that!1 Except sometime with small children."*

during same dental exam: "Would you like to see what a mummified nerve looks like?"**

during same dental exam (which takes place in a surgery which might as well be a corridor, given all the traffic through it): a long item of gossip about the goings on of two rival dentists practices which ended w.one of them sneaking in and cutting off the power to the other during business hours ("He could get struck off!!" They were all so delighted!!)

*I had a seriously exposed nerve, excepot the skin had grown back over it like a little lid, so it never hurt
**Mummified nerve = looks like a tiny little leaf

My teeth are not in great condition but I NEVER EVER HAVE ANY KIND OF TOOTHACHE EVER, not since i wz a tiny kid

mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I get my hair cut by the north beach mafia. y'know lots of swearing, copies of Playboy by the waiting chairs, stories about selling stolen furs, etc. It's great.

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

during long-ago haircut: "So then she said to me, 'I never want to see your fucking ugly face again as long as I live.' So that's kind of a mixed message, wouldn't you say?"

Classic.

Leon Bluth (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Phoenix, my masseuse, makes these amazing little satisfied moans, VERY pronounced, whenever she chases and irons out one of those little stress bumps in my back. It's great to find someone like that, whose job gives them SO much pleasure.

blahblahblah (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link

in high school i had this hairdresser, recommended by a coworker, who cancelled my very first appointment because she had an ANAL FISSURE! she couldn't just say, "i am sick and can't do it today." when i finally did end up getting my hair cut, i was telling her about a trip i was going on, and she asked if i wanted any speed for the drive.

somehow, i kept going to her for years...

tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link

tehresa that's TOTALLY CLASSIC. Both those. Also -

I went to this barber shop in my neighborhood once and when I started to describe to the lady what I wanted done and she says with a thick Russian accent: "Do you want a man's cut or a woman's cut?"
I was like "huh?" and she points to a sign that says:
Man's Cut - $8
Woman's Cut - $10

"Um, I guess I'll take the man's cut then." It was the worst haircut I've ever gotten in my life. I found out later that the guy who ran the place for like 40 years or something died and left it to this lady who had no idea what she was doing.


-- BrianB (spacmen...), November 4th, 2003.

This made me giggle lots. And lots.

Sadly I've nothing similar, those I was told by a former regular hairdresser (who my mum has been going to for about 15 yrs) that my hair was the most difficult she ever had to cut. Apparently she used to talk about it with all her staff, who she then brought out to say hello. Woo, hairdresser celebrity. I have ridiculously soft, fine and straight hair btw so I can imagine what she meant.

Crackity (Crackity Jones), Monday, 4 April 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

While requesting some figures so that I can calculate the average cost basis of an investment I sold shares of in 2004 so that I don't get audited, from a investment helpdesk woman at my bank:

"Oh I'm sure you're accountant would just be happier to just have the value on the date the original shares were purchased, it's really not worth all that work for such a small amount"

A. I AM MY ACCOUNTANT
B. DID YOU JUST MAKE A JOKE ABOUT MY PENIS
C. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER DONE THIS OH JESUS QUIT PRETENDING I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING


But whatever, I came up with something fairly accurate I hope, I don't imagine the IRS gets a lot of jollies out of doing FIFO calculations on over a decade of reinvested dividends either

It was only $2K FFS

TOMBOT, Monday, 4 April 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Huh?

I guess if my barber said that to me, I'd wish he hadn't too. But only your hairdresser knows for sure.

ATrifleConfused, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

(OR OTHER TRAINED PROFESSIONAL)

TOMBOT, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...
what about the salon professional who does coke right before your appointment? happened to me once. it was the fastest haircut i've ever had. im surprised that it looked good too. felt totally weird about giving her a tip, however.

maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 4 July 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

all true stories:

"so i did soooooooo much cocaine last night"

how about doing coke right before they're supposed to cut your hair?

true story. my stylist came out and wiped her nose, then proceeded to cut my hair in like, 20 minutes. it was a great cut but i felt totally gross giving her a tip. i changed stylists after that!

-- maria tessa sciarrino (mari...), March 29th, 2005.

deja vu (shookout), Monday, 4 July 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

a fate worse than death for any ilxor! I do this all the time but no-one notices. (post the same thing to the same thread more than once, not do coke).

dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 4 July 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

request for moar from jaxon

Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link

i haven't been to that guy in years. but here are moar

last girl that cut my hair is a friend. first haircut from her she's sniffling and coughing and telling me how sick she is, but she's about to go out for her friends birthday and do some ecstasy because that usually makes her cold go away.

second time she cut my hair for less than five minutes, it looked no different and then told me she had to go somewhere. i never went back to her.

current girl is another friend's girlfriend. they've had an on and off relationship for a year or two. real destructive type shit. she always asks me, "so how long have you been married? you guys have been together for 12 years now?! and you still love her?!"

jaxon, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

please 2 gay D&D story

Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link

guy from first stories started a gay dungeons and dragons troupe. most of the guys wanted to be faries. no good stories though

jaxon, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link


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