| I SHOCKED MY STYLIST TODAY, after years of getting haircuts my way. 'Don't touch the back', I'd repeatedly bitch! But today I apathetically said, 'do as you wish.' I have split-ends due to chorine in the pool. Besides long hair isn't needed anymore, it's no longer cool. Even if you still wear it like that, there are no places to go where the heads aren't flat. I'm getting too old to care what the girls think, they are no longer wooed by long hair, and they say my music stinks. Keeping long hair is expensive too, hot oil treatments, conditioners, and shampoo. Over a year's time, it costs a hundred dollars per inch, it's just not worth it anymore because I'm certainly not rich. So short hair is in, or so they tell me anyway. I liked it much better when short hair meant you were gay. Back when 'is that a man or a woman' was a common cliché. When the guys carried combs, and the girls had hair that was 'big.' When you actually stopped to wonder, is that real or a wig? As I reminisce back on the eighties, it almost makes me cry. Although, some people then wrecked their hair with purple dye. Remember the greats, Sebastian Bach, BonJovi, and David Coverdale. Hell I even remember washing our hair in raw eggs and warm ale. To have long hair takes time, vigilance, and determination, and if you go to court you're guilty by association. You have to deal with your parents, your boss, and society's scrutiny. With long hair you walk into a place and it seems like a mutiny. Long hair makes a proclamation! It says this guy has class! Short hair shows nothing, although in the morning it would be fast. Right away when I meet a long-haired guy, I can tell if he's cool when I look him in the eye. A short-haired guy could be anyone at all, a cop, a engineer, or a farmer bailing straw. It shows a man's character when it's half-way to his butt. Contrast that to a stupid bowl cut. So as she began to cut and snip, I sit there biting my upper lip. I began to reconsider as I saw wavy blonde lengths fall, I told her to stop because having short hair is bullshit after all. |