The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-27
doing the Job after his own ideas won't

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do at all.
1--WE got one barber in the shop who
was mighty stubborn in his way of
handling customers until one of them
showed him up few months ago.
This customer was a crouch, all
right, but he was privileged to have
his tresses dressed according to his
own plans an dspecifications so long
as he paid the price. But my pig
headed barber wouldn't give it to him.
THE customer told the barber at
considerable length before the job be-
gan that he didn't want his hair cut
round in the back.
Don't give me that ham actor ef-
feet he said to the barber when the
apron was being fastened on him, Il
don't want it pushed up in the back
and chopped even around the neck and
my neck shaved. I'm not in the pref
ty boy class and am not trying to give
folks the impression that I'm lead
ing juvenile in a bum society play
THAT was all right, and ! was sore
when | overheard the barber saying to
the customer:
"'But should think you'd like it
cut round in the back It'd sure look
better that way
YOU'D think so, would you?'
growled the crouch. very properly.
Well. I'm doing the thinking part
here, understand? You cut it the way
tell you and you can do all the think
ing on the side that you want to-
so what did he do but go right
ahead, in spite of the plain instruc-
tons he had got, and stake that man
to just the kind of haircut he din't
want.
When the crouch found out what
was coming off he was just about
the hottest man l ever saw in barber
shop. He jumped out of the chair,
swearing blue streak, combed his
own hair with about four swipes of
the brush, tossed his money on the
payoff counter and stormed out of the
shop with storm signals flying from all
over him and leaving a trail of sui
phurous language behind him that
! can almost sniff yet.
About month later the crouch
came back. The barber with whom he
had had the run in wasn't busy and the
crouch deliberately picked him out.
He got into that BARRIERS chair, and
when the apron was being fastened
around his neck he said, in as mild a
tone as YOU ever heard, to the bar
Der:
81 want just the right side of nv
hair cut. moderately short
The barber, of course, was dumb
founded
The right side only, sir?' he in
quired, sort of hoarsely
Yet, that's what | said,' placidly
replied the crouch. Just the right
side. Don't touch the left side with
your scissors at all. Get busy.
haven't got much time
THE barber did the job exactly as
the customer told him he wanted it
done, gave the man a first rate cut
on the right side of his head and left
the other side completely alone.
When he got through the crouch
looked like one of these Papuans I've
seen pictures of and he'd have made
bit in any dime museum. But upon
completion he climbed out of the chair
just as clipper and pleasant as you
please, looked himself over in the
glass 4. put on his collar. tie and coat
and then settled up with the barber.
Here's 35 cents for the haircut,
says he, still pleasant as a basket of
grapes, and here's two bits for your
self. | stake you to the two bits be-
cause you've done the job the way I
wanted to have it done and not the
dad blamed way you wanted it. like
you did the last timeI was in your
hands. Now. blast my eyes, I'll go
down the street to that other shop and