Attribution: François GOGLINS, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, was not involved as the keeper and Phyllis both visited Cheryl at the Vista West hair salon for the usual professional treatment that made them both young and beautiful, more so perhaps in Phyllis’s case.
But as it happens with almost everything that touches the keeper’s life, a memory resulted and on a long ago Sunday morning he was back as a little boy sitting on the kitchen stool with a dishtowel over his shoulders as his father used a pair of hand-powered clippers to cut the keeper’s hair, and to reduce him to tears because the old clippers seemed to pull more hair than they cut and Dad was not a patient barber with a flinching and tearful subject. One of Dad’s reactions was to use the barber comb to rap the keeper on the head to get his attention and to do less squirming.
Those early “Dad” haircuts were unpleasant ordeals, nothing like Cheryl’s cheerful and expert treatment with the very latest electric powered tools.
But just for old time’s sake, next time around, the keeper might ask Cheryl to rap him on the head with a comb just to freshen up the memory of a Sunday morning haircut with Dad and those hair-pulling clippers.
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