Pensive ?…. why shouldn’t I have been?
I sat on a stool in the master bathroom at a 45 degree angle from the very large mirror above the sink. From that position my left eye could just barely see the wife about to make an attempt at something for the first time in her life. The right ear was tuned in to the volume of the TV in the other room and I could hear clearly a documentary about the 1970 Kent State massacre.
The Corona virus has created many changes to our lives and has done so rapidly . “Adapt and Overcome” is a military saying that needs us all paying heed. It’s the reason I sat on a stool in the master bath while the wife began her hair cutting apprenticeship upon my head with a borrowed hair clipper.
Not to make light of that horrible day on May 4th 1970 as I remember that time well. But men with short hair back then had hair down to their shoulders and while I listened to that documentary through the right ear I could see through my left eye the wife about to remove mine with zero experience. I started to think that since the corona virus has shut all barber shops, perhaps we should consider a return to the hippy looking roots we enjoyed back in 1970.
But in twenty minutes the deed was done. I was afraid to face the mirror and witness the results but the wife proudly proclaimed……..
” It looks good Baby ! … and I felt relief until she added ….
“But a barber could fix it ” ….
I’ve decided it will need two or three beers to muster the courage to face a mirror and what the wife keeps chuckling at ….
