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| - Five stars for Great Clips? Yes. Let me tell you why. Today, my 16-year-old son decided that he couldn't take his hair anymore. We go through this cycle every few months. Nicholas will decide that he will grow his hair out until he decides that he can't take it any longer and needs to cut it RIGHT NOW! This happened today when we went to the gym. Like I usually do when his hair gets too long, I ask him, "Nicholas, your hair needs to be cut now, doesn't it?" And he replies, "No, I want to wait until the end of the month." And I say, "That's Friday." And he says, "I'll wait until then." This is what it's like with teenagers. But then we went to work out and when we exited the 24 Hour Fitness, Nicholas tells me, "I want to get my hair cut now." What the what?! Okay, fine. So, we drive over to Great Clips near our house where he's been going for the past five years because that's where Lisa works. Who's Lisa? Lisa is a super gal who used to work at SuperCuts and then she left and we followed her to Great Clips. Why? Because she knows how to cut my son's hair. My son is biracial, half Filipino and half Black, to be exact. And, when you find someone who knows how to do a fade the correct way and who works in this neighborhood, you follow that person wherever they go. Back to today. We drive up to the shop and Nicholas spies Lisa walking to her car. "You're LEAVING?!" he cries. He didn't cry, but he wasn't happy. Lisa was just going to be gone for 20 minutes so the poor girl could go to Jimmy John's for a veggie sandwich, but because she's Lisa and awesome, she walked back to the shop with my desperate son. There was already one customer waiting to get his hair did, so Lisa took that dude first and then she cut off my son's hair--is that great customer service or what?! I'm sure she was starving, too, because we talked about food the whole time she was cutting Nicholas' hair. I don't think she appreciated that, but what else am I going to talk about? Thanks, Lisa--you're a real peach and you make my son happy every time he decides he doesn't have the patience to grow a 'fro like the old days when he was 5. The end.
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