Drunken Barber

I received a hair­cut yes­ter­day. I think the bar­ber was drunk. I’d never been to this place before. Joe’s Bar­ber­shop in Lake­wood. Right next to the crap­pi­est fenc­ing club in Cleve­land. I walk in and the place is dead quiet. Empty.

From the back, some old guy said “I’ll be with you in a minute!” and came out a minute later with a can in one of those rubbery/​plastic keep-​your-​can coolie/​cozy things. So I got a hair­cut and a beard trim and my neck shaved, and all the while this bar­ber guy is swig­ging from the can in the thinger. He didn’t give me a chance to approve the hair­cut, but whipped off the apron thingy. I took a closer look in the mir­ror, and though the hair­cut was a lit­tle ragged, my hair is too short for it to be very notice­able. Prob­a­bly not going back to Joe’s Bar­ber­shop though.

I tried going to a bar­ber­shop nearby to Tremont called Pete the Bar­ber, but the address is a McDonald’s now, which is a bit strange. Per­haps I’ll find a nice place down­town to get my mop chopped.

Comments on this post

  1. lyndsey

    join the i-​cut-​my-​own-​hair-​stop-​laughing-​at-​me-​right-​now-​you-​meanie club.

  2. harvey

    Nah, I like the atmos­phere of an old-​fashioned bar­ber­shop. I just haven’t found one ’round here yet.

  3. jane

    There is a bar­ber shop right up the street from my house (lit­er­ally, like 8 houses away, on the street cor­ner). I’ve heard some good things about it, but have no rea­son to go per­son­ally as I only trust my hair to Les­ley at regis salon.

  4. Patrick

    I told you about that place in Lake­wood that’s way old fash­ioned. Call you ‘sir’, shave with a straight razor, father and son team, with lots of old people.

  5. harvey

    Yeah, except all you told me was that there is some “place in Lake­wood that’s way old fash­ioned. Call you ‘sir’, shave with a straight razor, father and son team, with lots of old peo­ple. I can’t remem­ber the name.”

  6. Genevieve

    on madi­son between ridge­wood and w 117th on the north side of the street

  7. Patrick

    It’s okay, he’s freg­gin lying. I, in fact, told him *where it was*. Just not the name.

  8. kara

    Kinda creepy — all by yourself.