Groceries vs haircuts

Around here, grocery stores are one of the few things not locked down, but not hair salons or barbers. We also got orders yesterday that everyone should wear a mask. Luckily, Edie found a box of masks for my grocery hunting safari tomorrow. But back to the point: how's your hair doing?

I usually get cut about every three months so I alternate between short and long. But another month means I'll wind up longer than usual. At least it's good insulation.

Hair is starting to get bushy here. Harder to manage, show more bed-head; also shows more grey.

Harder to manage, show more bed-head; also shows more grey.

What I tell people is that my gray hair is just starting to turn brown and point to those strands.

[Jenise]

Long time I lived in Saudi Arabia and started cutting husband's and friends' hair as I just instinctively knew I could cut hair better than the Pakistani sheep shearer over at the bachelor camp, which was the other alternative. When Bob and I started cohabiting and I saw the first hair cut he came home with, I said "I can do better than that." I've been cutting his hair ever since. My hair is below shoulder length and easy to cut.

I could volunteer for friends here but that would violate the rules of social distancing. Word is they're getting pretty shaggy.

I lucked out--I got a haircut a day or two before the lock-down went into effect. Barber shops and hair salons represent a far more dangerous vector than supermarkets. I'd say more so for the barber or hairdresser than for the customers. And we can survive the whole pandemic cycle without a haircut, even if we all end up looking like Rapunzel or Conan the Barbarian on the other side.

I don't have a mask, so I'm using a winter scarf wrapped across my mouth and nose, along with a hoodie, so that only my eyes are exposed. It's probably not too effective at stopping infected droplets, but it does keep me from unconsciously touching my face. I wear kitchen gloves on my hands. On returning home, I wash my hands with the gloves on; then the gloves, scarf, and hoodie go in the garage for a 3-day (minimum) decontamination session; then I go inside and wash my bare hands.

-Paul W.

[Jenise]

Paul, if the friend who promised to make me some masks doesn't come thru, I've got my eye on a pair of my husband's old tightie whities.

Last time my hair was this long was 1973.

I usually get my hair cut every 3 weeks or so, so this is also as long as it's been since roughly 1995. I am starting to feel really shaggy, but at (fully remote) work things are very busy and we are putting on classes for new folks to learn our software. Therefore I really want to be on camera! I joke that we need to finish up these courses before I'm no longer decent to appear by video.

The one thing I've had no trouble with is showering and shaving every day. I bet I shave at least 330 days out of the year. Put on a dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up and chinos (khakis) to "go" to work. Stay well, everyone.

I've always had "bed head." The hair on the back of my head every morning looks like a rooster tail. I put hot water on it to comb it down.

I went speed-grocery shopping today and noticed an interesting phenomenon after our governor's admonition to wear a mask: Albertson's, virtually no one wearing a mask; Smith's, a few people wearing masks; Sprouts (a natural food store), many people wearing a mask.

[Jenise]

I've always had "bed head." The hair on the back of my head every morning looks like a rooster tail. I put hot water on it to comb it down.

I went speed-grocery shopping today and noticed an interesting phenomenon after our governor's admonition to wear a mask: Albertson's, virtually no one wearing a mask; Smith's, a few people wearing masks; Sprouts (a natural food store), many people wearing a mask.

Similar to what we see up here. We don't have a Sprouts but stores that attract the Birkenstock crowd as that one does have the most masks which seems to translate to what you might call the 'most aware' shoppers. Mainstream groceries will depend more on their relative neighborhood in the some will/some won't range.

[Robin Garr]

Mary and I were very lucky in this and one other department: We both go to the same hair stylist who's a little pricey but makes up for it by her willingness to give us hair styles that last for two months. They start out looking good short, yet somehow manage to look at least decent eight weeks later. Sheerly by coincidence, we saw her early in March, just before things started to get real. So we're good into May at least, before we start looking even a little unkempt.

(The other department was that we had bought a huge package of TP - 24 or 36 rolls, I think - at Target just a couple of weeks before people started hoarding. That should hold us through the summer.

(The other department was that we had bought a huge package of TP - 24 or 36 rolls, I think - at Target just a couple of weeks before people started hoarding.

I always buy TP in those big packages (I buy one package at a time). Unfortunately I'm on my last few rolls.

-Paul W.

[Jenise]

Sheerly by coincidence, we saw her early in March, just before things started to get real. So we're good into May at least, before we start looking even a little unkempt.

Missed opportunity!! You meant, "Shearly...", right?

[Robin Garr]

Missed opportunity!! You meant, "Shearly...", right?

My hairdresser gave me a pretty good cut last time, fairly short, so it's still in reasonable shape. However, the regrowth is about 2cm long now and starting to show as a grizzled silver border around the face. Won't be long before the world can see what colour my hair really is, underneath that nice shade of brown. Unless I'm mistaken, people can still go to the hairdresser. I won't be. Not for a long, long time.

I've been shaving my head for quite some time. As long as I have razors, I'll be OK. And since I am WFH, I only shave every second or third day.

BTW: For all you you improvising masks. This was in the NY Times the other day.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronav ... k-ppe.html

[Jenise]

My hairdresser gave me a pretty good cut last time, fairly short, so it's still in reasonable shape. However, the regrowth is about 2cm long now and starting to show as a grizzled silver border around the face. Won't be long before the world can see what colour my hair really is, underneath that nice shade of brown. Unless I'm mistaken, people can still go to the hairdresser. I won't be. Not for a long, long time.

No hairdressers here! On lockdown, this is not an 'essential service'. In fact, if a hairdresser would be infected, spending 30 minutes just inches away from each your clients would make you a super-spreader.