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The search for a long term barber continues. Thought I had a contender but I'm calling it quits with Valentinos on Cornwall Rd, Waterloo.
I should preface all of this by pointing out that I'm just about hanging on to it being worth my getting a haircut at all by the skin of my teeth. I'm receding from the temples at an alarming rate and the resulting widow's peak is rapidly starting to play catch up. I'm not far off requiring the "Millenium Combover" (#1 all over). As a result I’m very particular about barbers. The line between decent cut and the balding squaddie pinhead look is very fine indeed.
I've been going to Valentinos for a couple of years now and the old guy there does a great cut. One of his sons is okay too if you're very careful about what you tell him. But the other son, the scary one with the chunky silver jewellery and hairy palms always ends up making me look like a baldy squaddie pinhead no matter what I tell him. It's really not the sort of situation in which I feel comfortable saying, "Sorry mate, I'll wait for your dad". Which I know is weak and pathetic of me but I just can't be arsed with the stress of telling him after all this time or of sitting there playing the odds, trying to time it so I'll get his old man.
I tried the latter last week and failed miserably (despite taking a fake phone call at one crucial point). Son number two welcomed me up chatting away about my recent wedding (for which his dad cut my hair) and his new baby like we're old friends. Once again I gave very specific instructions in the hope I could steer him towards a half decent cut which, as usual, he ignored from the first stroke of the clippers (way too far up the side of the head) and left me looking like a squaddie pinhead. Again. Ffffuuuuu...
Shame because they're lovely guys, it's a cool shop, convenient for work and the attention to detail with the cut-throat etc is always great. Plus it's bargain at £12. But I just can't cope with the stress and humiliation of walking out with goofy looking haircut one time in three.
Guess I’ll try Great Suffolk Street then.
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