The Barber Pole.This morning I got a call from a friend who said he would be by for coffee after his barber shop appointment. While I was waiting on him to arrive, I got to thinking about the past when I used to go to the barber shop. What stuck in my mind was we used to enter the barber shop and take a seat to await your turn. During this time you joined the discussion with the others who were waiting. The discussions involved the latest happening, politics and other such happening. Now I have to admit it, but on"rare" occasion the discussions became a little biased, but you did get the latest "truths".
During the barber shop visits visits you learned how things were effecting and understood by others in the community. Usually some sort of decision was reached on the subjects at hand. It was the barbers duty to relay any and all decisions made to the new group as the individual discussion precipitants changed.
Life has become so fast That we now get appointments at the barber shop we loose the interaction and input from those around us on important issues. We subsist on our own preconceived ideas no matter how it might effect those around us. Maybe it is time to stop and smell the roses.
Better yet I propose a new law. No barber shop appointments. No one can be given a haircut until he has been in a discussion with a minimum of three patroons for a minimum of one hour. Penalty is to do barber shop service for a minimum of 80 hours for each offense. Barber shop service is defined as sitting in the barber shop in a discussion with a minimum of three patrons. This law would make about as much since as some we already have, but serve a much greater service.
If you think the barber shop tradition is not dead, I had to go to 4 barber shops before I found one that had an operating barber pole.
Nice picture Elmo but your commentary steals the show. I agree, old time barber shops without an appointment book were best Also, Steven's comments were great!
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