I had just returned home from working in Dare County yesterday when I received a phone call from my husband Keith. “I am going to tell you something,” he began, “but you have to promise not to be angry.” Suddenly I was flooded with all sorts of thoughts, “Did he hit a deer? Or, as he would say, did a deer hit him? Did he have a fender bender? Did he leave his favorite jacket behind and can’t remember where?” However, it was none of the above.
“I needed a haircut and due to my schedule, I knew that I would not have time to go to my barber in Hertford. I stopped at a local barber shop, just outside the gate of Camp Lejeune,” he said. “I told the barber that I needed a trim only. He replied that he knew what to do as he had cut hair for 30 years.”
“The barber must have cut Keith’s hair pretty short, but it can’t be that bad,” I thought as I tried to prepare myself for his arrival. “I will just have to smile and pretend I like it anyway.”
His steps were heavy as he climbed the stairs to the upper deck. As usual and customary, he called out to me as he opened the door, “Baby?”
His voice did not sound as strong as normal. I braced myself as I heard him approaching the study where I was working.
“Baby?” he spoke as he stopped at the study doorway.
With much consternation, I turned toward him. My eyes flew wide open and my jaw dropped. “OH MY GOD,” fell right out of my mouth like a gushing waterfall! “That’s not a haircut! You have been scalped!!!”
I guess the barber learned his tricks of the trade at the Parris Island Recruit Depot! Someone said, “I’ll bet it looks great.” NOT!!! Just try to capture a visual of a 70 year old, old fart who is half bald anyway and now he has a buzz cut!! Scary indeed! Our social life is on the shelf for at least two months…I think that is how long it will take for it to grow as there is nothing there now but the roots!
Today he must go back out on the job but I could not allow him to leave looking like an old wanna be Marine so I beat feet to the local wiggery and bought him a hair piece. You decide which one looks best. Love him anyway.