I work as a barber for a living. When a customer comes in I ask, “may I help you”? Sometimes a man will be sceptical of my abilities because I am an attractive woman. Ok fine I can accept that begrudgingly, but do you have to actually ask me if I can cut hair? That is so fuckin’ rude and dumb I can’t even believe it. If I happen to be a bad barber, am I going to say so? Probably not. I am actually an excellent barber, it’s what I do for a living and I am very proud of my skills. The only thing you do by asking me that stupid question is hurt my feelings and make things tense. You are mostly greasy, smelly and gross anyways and if you paid a rat to chew off your hair no one would care. —Barberella
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2013.
Funny and sad at the same time…I drive for a living, would love for someone to come in and ask “Can you drive?” I’d laugh and then tell them to get out. LOL
Ummm, I’d like to know where OB’s business is located
Phat doesn’t ask, he TELLS you that he’s the “Bullshit Barber”.
And he waits ’til after you’ve paid before calling you a “scumbag”. >: )
Come for the haircut; stay for the banter.
Yeah I could never cheat on Phat. 17 years now he has been cutting my hair. Actually, I think he would be all right with it as long as you are an attractive white woman and I told him all about it.
ANOTHER STUPID QUESTION
“The only thing you do by asking me that stupid question is hurt my feelings and make things tense.” Barbarella
Would it hurt your feelings and make things tense if I asked you, “Do you think I need a haircut?”
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
i like my hair
You sound like a dick. I like where I go (not phat, btw, tho he is fun) and if where I go disappeared and I was looking for a new place, and I walked into a place with a female barber, I would assume it was you. And leave.
I got a haircut from phat once, totally forgot about that guy until now.
Um, aren’t the majority of hair stylists female, though? Why would this guy be so shocked to go to a barbar shop and see a woman working there? Maybe his question was based on something other than your gender?
There is a very elegant lady barber on Portland St, who does exceptionally good work.
The lousiest barber in town! I miss that guy.
if men all wore their hair long, and tied back, you wouldn’t need to go to a barber. you could give yourself a trim with scissors.
I went to a hair cutting place once when I was 14, again at 26. 34. and that’s it. I use some nice shears to cut my hair. it was always very easy to do when it was long.
draper is not impressed
I read somewhere that Edward Cornwallis was some type of tonsorial artiste?
Hairstylists and barbers are two different things. I usually don’t let women cut my hair because every time I have it turns out crappy. I wear my hair short and they are never thorough enough, got that light touch that leaves me all uneven, even one girl I told her you have to get really close but she was scared to hurt me.
However I went to a shop in Ottawa a couple years back and the girl there had a barber certificate. She knew what she was doing, gave me a nice, though rather expensive cut. It was a pretty damn fancy barber shop but it was a barber shop, not a hair salon. Two totally different things. She was a great barber. But most women who do hair are hairdressers, not barbers. OP is a woman in a male dominated feild.
Went to Phats today, he was beat, I was first in the chair. Great cut and better banter/bullshit ha ha
I always feel like I’m in the sequel to Gran Torino when I’m being berated by Phat >: )
I had the shirt made last year and Phat took a pic. My lady friend didn’t believe that he called customers Scumbags, so I asked him to step outside and tell her as she sat in the car, he obliged.