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Bald people like to go to the hairdresser too. You may not have known that, but we do.
Perhaps you have had a secret chuckle when walking past a hairdresser's shop to spy a baldie in the chair, paper towel securely fastened under their plastic gown.
Fluorescent lights shining on the bald pate.
Not much work there for the apprentice with the broom, you may have thought with amusement.
I must admit to feeling a bit self-conscious about it.
Sitting on the bench waiting my turn watching the latest hair fashion taking shape in front of me. Lots of shaven back and sides, hair teased upright on top to flop this way or the other.
One day I was asked by another in this seated queue whether I was next or simply waiting for someone else. I may have been a little short with the reply.
Most of my memories are pre-Covid now.
Like many I couldn't imagine being that physically close to anyone now.
This is the time for the coronavirus crewcut, the $20 hair cutters come out from under the sink.
"Are you going to keep that little tuft of hair, or what," my wife asked before we went to a friend's birthday party the other day.
The little tuft in question was on the back of my scone, and no it was not a fashion statement, just missed it with the clippers is all.
Hard to see what you are doing at the back. And yes, the little tuft soon went.
Baldies can have little tufts. My plumage is a ring of hair around the sides, with skin on top - fairly stock standard.
It has been that way for years, I can blame genetics from the mother's side apparently. My grandfather was bald in the same way.
My Dad remarkably still has most of his hair now in his 80s but even more startling is that it has never gone grey.
I have picked up the colour retention, mostly, just not the hair.
Post-Covid I planned to return to the hairdressers, and risk more of those strange glances.
That little brush thrashing the white powder into your freshly shaven neck, just a hint of perfume. You end up paying the same as everyone else, despite the lack of wear and tear on the equipment.
At least there's no little tufts of hair on the back of your head.
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