You’ve Gotta Let The Hair Grow Out

The current US president and administration is like a bad haircut. After paying for it, you leave the salon wondering what the heck just happened in there?! That fool has taken a hatchet to your normally well-coiffed crown.

You’ve always gone to the same salon because you’re familiar with the owners. You appreciate their community values, believe they have a successful business model and you like the way they treat their staff and clients. Each time you’ve walked into the facility, they’ve provided you with a professional stylist.

Except this time. This time is different. You are unaware that the salon sold to new owners since you were last there. Your stylist has just graduated from 6-weeks of elite Barber School and thinks he knows everything there is to know about hair. And, unbeknownst to you, you are the first client he will work on without an instructor at his side.

As he takes you to his sink, you become aware that he certainly knows how to chat it up. He talks about his perfect girlfriend and her great kids while he washes and massages your scalp. Then he gets you into his chair and continues on about how successful he was in his old career — the one he left because some friends suggested he’d make a great barber. He states with unchecked confidence, “I thought, why not? After all, I am so good at everything else, why…