So doing it at home, and seldom, Ash had a sort of uneven skatepunk doo. I had mentioned to the house that I would walk him down and try the barbershop downtown that was willing to try cutting his hair. kiri's mum was visiting this weekend, and she and kiri decided to stop off there with him. Thing of it is though, neither of them had ever stepped foot into a barbershop before, nor had they ever had any experience talking to old men that still retained a great many old Italian sensibilities. Something people who have lived here forever have had a lot of practice at, but for all that she has lived here 10 years kiri just doesn't get. kiri treated him like a salon girl and tried telling him which hairs to cut. Big oops.
Lad is lucky he still has hair. kiri and mum were nearly afraid to come home. In fact poor mum was so certain that DH was furious with her that she hid in kiri's room when she was here for the rest of the weekend, and we had to phone her and tell her that we were not _that_ angry, and that she is welcome here anytime. She was just that worried.
He has one of those haircuts that is all but shaved at the neck and lengthens slightly into a sort of pom pom kind of thing on top, and his bangs are like a half inch long. So the whole lot is prone to sticking out every which-a-way from his ears up, which it does often. It didn't at the shop because the barber used both hair oil and pomade. He also put a dab of Colonia on our lad's chin. kiri and mum were a bit shocky and olfactorily overwhelmed by the time they got back with Ash. They also had a heck of a time understanding a word the barber said between, "Buon Giorno, welcome to my shop!", and "Now there is a handsome boy! Isa fifteen dollars please."
Ash just thought he was the niftiest guy. The lad has been trying to pronounce Buon Giorno ever since he got back. (G) He has what I assume are the fellow's lilt and intonation down pat (since they aren't anybody else's that I can think of), but has trouble with some consonants so it comes out sort of "pong zormo"
At least it will be a few months before Ash needs so much as a trim.
NightMist would still be giggling if poor mum hadn't taken it to hard