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Mar. 10th, 2004 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheLast night, my father gave me a haircut. This is something he's been doing for a year or so now. I've been in need of a haircut for about a month.
When we got started, I could tell that things weren't going optimally. The clippers seemed like they couldn't make it through my hair in one swipe. I think a big part of the problem is that I bought those clippers from Wal-Mart, when I was very much unemployed--that is, they are extraordinarily cheap. I began to worry about how my haircut was going to end up.
Have faith, I told myself. Daddy has been cutting his own hair for many years.
Cheap clippers heat up quickly. I noticed I was fidgeting a lot when they came close to my scalp. The ears, too, are areas that make me involutarily flinch.
After several minutes and a lot of backing up and judging the cut, my dad asked me to look at myself in the mirror. "Let me know if that's okay, or if you want me to take it all the way down. When I got close to your ear, you flinched." Sure enough, there was a little nick in my hair, but it really didn't make that much of a difference. And I didn't want to sit back down and let more clipper craziness occur. "I'm sorry I flinched," I told my dad. "It's your head!" he said.
This morning during our commute, my dad says, "I owe you an apology."
"For what?" I asked.
"That nick in your head wasn't your fault; it was mine."
I had to laugh. I accepted his apology, of course. :) The nick really isn't that bad.
When we got started, I could tell that things weren't going optimally. The clippers seemed like they couldn't make it through my hair in one swipe. I think a big part of the problem is that I bought those clippers from Wal-Mart, when I was very much unemployed--that is, they are extraordinarily cheap. I began to worry about how my haircut was going to end up.
Have faith, I told myself. Daddy has been cutting his own hair for many years.
Cheap clippers heat up quickly. I noticed I was fidgeting a lot when they came close to my scalp. The ears, too, are areas that make me involutarily flinch.
After several minutes and a lot of backing up and judging the cut, my dad asked me to look at myself in the mirror. "Let me know if that's okay, or if you want me to take it all the way down. When I got close to your ear, you flinched." Sure enough, there was a little nick in my hair, but it really didn't make that much of a difference. And I didn't want to sit back down and let more clipper craziness occur. "I'm sorry I flinched," I told my dad. "It's your head!" he said.
This morning during our commute, my dad says, "I owe you an apology."
"For what?" I asked.
"That nick in your head wasn't your fault; it was mine."
I had to laugh. I accepted his apology, of course. :) The nick really isn't that bad.
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Date: 2004-03-10 09:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-10 10:25 am (UTC)Now I'm wondering: Do adults tell children tall tales so that the children learn to tell the difference between truth and lies?
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Date: 2004-03-11 02:52 am (UTC)Wish I had any like that with either of my parents.