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| - After nearly a year living in TO and semi-monthly haircuts, I think I may have finally found my neighbourhood barber.
I've been getting the same haircut for maybe 10 years now (I find haircuts to be a tedious and usually uncomfortable ritual). My biggest complaint is usually how far off the mark my given barber is from what I wanted, but there are lots of other factors to evaluate. Sometimes the barber might take twice the time of another, and yet I walk out with half the haircut because I'm tired of squirming and smirking in my seat, or maybe my wallet is starting to feel a little exploited, or the barber is just a little rough with his tools.
Well, at Ernie's, I had no complaints. For an oldster, my barber was a very light touch with his instruments - no hair pulling, or fingers fumbling at my scalp and he was done before I knew it. In fact, I was already quite happy with his interpretation of my never-changing hair, but he was more than happy (almost insistent) to tweak it further. And when it came time to pay, $17 seemed more than fair for his time.
Maybe I caught my barber on a good day - an early Tuesday morning at the beginning of his work week, before a day's or week's worth of standing on his feet might reduce his limbs to a leaden drag - but I know I'm going to pay him a second visit.
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