Many of you have been through bad hair days with us. Just to recall a few. July 4th, the day before Steve started the academy, he asked me to trim his hair using a gizzmo for trimming napes and sideburns. This has a razor blade in it with two lengths, short and bald. Well, needless to say, I gave Steve a reverse Mohawk down the back of his head. Steve's mom and dad's best friend was a barber and he kindly left his family's get together to open his shop and try to repair the damage. Guess you wondered about that weird haircut.
The next bad hair day for Steve was the infamous Flowbee accident when he forgot to add the spaces to this suck and cut machine and took big divots out of the top of his head. He was so glad Wilson was on vacation and he would have a day or two before he was subjected to the raft of ---- that he knew would come. Of course, John had to drop by the lab for something and Steve had no reprieve.
I've had my series of bad hair days usually having to do with color. The last time Steve even took pictures. I decided about two years ago to return to my natural color. To do this I had to remove the current color so I got a color remover, well, I looked like a apricot poodle with spots. Then I tried to add color and nothing took. Got up the next morning and called Revlon. Mad a trip to OSCO to get all the colors they told me to use. Well, end result a red that Ronald McDonald would be proud of. I don't if I looked more like Lucy or Harpo but I cancelled all my appointments for the next few days until Donna McCoy could get me in to the color specialist at her salon. This took months to correct.
Well, now on to BAD HAIR DAYS in Corpus. I just had to get my hair cut. I left to go to the mall but changed my mind and stopped and Mingo's family hair styling. This more barber than beauty salon. Should have been my first clue. I set myself down in the chair and explained that I wanted a shorter nape and feathered sides cut over my ears. DID NOT REGISTER. Out come the clippers and now I have a really short nape. Next to the feathered front -snip, snip, no feathered front, sideburns. The final result looks like Moe (Three Stooges) with a duck's ass back. Steve has emphases over and over that this is the WORST haircut he has ever seen.
Lesson Learned: Never ever get a haircut next to a military base. The entrance to our park is on NAS-CCAD Drive. Naval Air Station Corpus Christi Army Depot Drive. The road ends at the base and then park adjoins the base. I am sure the "stylist" must have mistaken me for GI Jane. Demi's hairstyle would be an improvement. Never get a haircut when everyone else is wearing a uniform or is addressed as Captain, Sgt. Etc.
When we get back to KC I can't wait for the Flowbee cut.
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