I do a lot of packing and shipping of items from tools to toys and I recycle an awful lot of news papers in that effort. There is a nice lady who is a rare breed these days as she has no internet access and still reads the daily delivered newspaper and she saves them for me to pick up once a month to use as packing material. This morning as I was packing up an item soon to be on it’s way to Oregon a news article caught my eye ….
” Man Perms are Coming Back ” and it offered a description, or explanation … or something along with the picture of a young guy at a local hair dressers getting his hair curled like Richard Simmons. I didn’t bother to read it, I’ll leave that to the guy in Oregon when he unwraps his antique Stanley wood plane . But I did laugh because of someone I met yesterday…
I answered a local internet FOR SALE ad that promised some items that we’ve been seeking to ship to Colombia for friends and family and when I arrived I was greeted by a a guy sporting a “Man Bun” . I thought those had already thankfully gone out of style , but what do I know ? Maybe he didn’t get the memo or even the newspaper article about Man Perms. It caused me to remember the first young guy I know that was sporting a Man Bun and what he said in response to my raised eyebrow ….
” I’m secure enough in my manhood to wear my hair like this “. That’s what he said and I thought ….” I’m secure enough in my manhood not to”. and guess I still do though perhaps I’ve not the right .
I remember back in the late 1960s when one afternoon my Mother and I came home from school clothes shopping with my very first pair of Bell Bottom Trousers . My Father ripped them up with the explanation that no kid of his was ever going wear any of that “Hippy Shit” . Looking back in time I’ll have to say that watching ” Hippy Shit`” being torn to shreds back in the 1960s would have to be a lot less painful than arriving home with a Man Bun …. or Man Perm … or something
maybe Dad was right ….. but then again… I did ultimately wear bell bottoms …
and become a Hippy
