The Red and White Pole

After so many people asked me to write a new post, I thought while I was sitting in Adi's room and witnessing another classic conversation between Chanda and Adi that I must write about this little legend called Chanda Sahib but then Destiny is destiny and it made me change the topic for this post.

To everyone his own, everybody values things that he possesses in his own way and I am very touchy about certain things and those certain things might sound really silly like how the barber cuts my hair. As I summed it up to Debo and Abhay, I cut my hair and this fellow is the most Barbaric Barber that I have encountered yet.

It had been quite a while since I saw these simple equipments put to my head like this ... i.e picked off a table and put to use and put back on the table, had been used to those ones been pushed on a trolley and taken out of sterilizers and what not and wasnt I brought back to the earth by this man Virendra Sen.

History is the greatest teacher say people an d everybody learn from their personal histories and I hope I have learnt mine ... always listen to Mom and cut your hair whenever you go home so that you dont give this fellow another chance to practice with your hair. And there is another saying about History which I hope doesnt apply to personal histories :(( .. History repeats itself.

Virendra Sen was hidden behind those screens and I thought there was nobody in the shop and looked around when he screamed, Kya chaahiye?? and then made me feel comfortable in that chair that went down a few inches as soon as I sat on it, owing to my mass mostly, and then he set out on spraying atleast around 1/2 a litre of water on that dense overgrowth on my head to make it suitable for cutting and I agree with the guy on that as it is really tough to comb that hair when it is dry let alone cut. And then I saw the most bizzarre things happen, things that I havent seen a barber do to me like for instance,

1. Leave me all alone in the shop with half the job done and go enjoy a cup of tea and biscuits

2. Start by identifying the baseline and neatly shaving it off!!!

3. Playing soft music in a barber's shop

4. Identify the rebel hair after brushing off the debris and pouncing on it and going over the whole process again

5. Taking it off and putting it on for around 5 times, the piece of cloth that he wraps you with

6. Wiping off the comb on that same piece of cloth that he has wrapped you with

7. Last but not the least standing right in between you and the mirror and cutting your hair!!!!

And all that I have to tell Mom now is ... I have learnt my lesson :)

Back from the Clutches of the Barbaric Barber who cut my hair with clenched teeth and who went about his job like the gardner trimming the grass and to whom I gave a free hand after seeing what Debo and Pranav got after they asked for what they wanted

Srini