{"id":2688,"date":"2013-03-28T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2013-03-24T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T13:43:53","slug":"a-taste-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/2013\/03\/28\/a-taste-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A taste of home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sort of.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Back in NYC, after many, many years of searching, I had found a hairdresser I liked.\u00a0 I always got a good haircut at a reasonable price and, best of all, he was only two blocks away from my apartment!<\/p>\n

The proximity is important because I have\u2014I won’t really call it a phobia\u2014let’s just say, it’s a severe dislike\u2014of getting my haircut.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I mind scissors snipping around me.\u00a0 It’s just that it seems an awful lot of trouble and money for something that so rarely seems to be an improvement.\u00a0 That, of course, was until I found Joe.<\/p>\n

I had tried various other routes.<\/p>\n

The Astor Place Barbershop used to be very popular.\u00a0 $8, you take whatever barber is open, and you get what you get.\u00a0 Definitely affordable in my young, starving actor days but not necessarily reliable.<\/p>\n

There was a school in the basement of the Empire State Building.\u00a0 Also affordable\u2014but they were “cutting edge” (no pun intended), and when you got what you got there, likely as not you got something rather weird which didn’t match the headshot on which you’d just spent hundreds of dollars.<\/p>\n

There were stylists on the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side who gave cuts of varying degrees of proficiency.\u00a0 The problem with them is similar to a complaint of Jean Kerr’s<\/a> in one of her extremely funny books.\u00a0 If I remember the quote correctly, it was something to the effect that they always acted as if, in another moment, it would have been too late.<\/p>\n

I don’t need a hairdresser looking down his or her nose at me.\u00a0 I mean, I’m sure they do.\u00a0 I just don’t need to feel<\/em> it every minute I’m in the shop.<\/p>\n

So…along came Joe.<\/p>\n

I loved having my hair cut by Joe.\u00a0 He was fast and good and friendly.<\/p>\n

Moving down here to Florida, I was worried about finding a place to get a good haircut.<\/p>\n

How thankful I am that there is a little shop over behind Whitey’s Fish Camp where Susan of Susan’s Total Image hangs out!<\/p>\n

A friendly welcome and no sense that she thinks she is doing me a favor even to run her comb through my hair.<\/p>\n

And walking distance!<\/p>\n

Susan and Joe.<\/p>\n

My hair and I are thankful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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