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Baa-aahd Haircuts

by Amy Chu

A FROWNING SHEEP WITH A THOUGHT-BUBBLE FILLED WITH THE IMAGE OF A WOMAN WITH LONG FLOWING LOCKS

[ELDERLY MUSTACHIOED MAN CUTTING THE HAIR OF AN UNHAPPY CUSTOMER. A FLUFFY SHEEP READING A BOOK WATCHES.] When I first walked in, I noticed that all Luigi's clients were elderly. They didn't have much hair. Watching Luigi give them a haircut reminded me of watching a child being forced to finish their dinner, pushing it back and forth on their plate. "Thank god that won't be me for another thirty or forty years," I thought to myself.
[FLUFFY SHEEP HOLDS UP A PHOTO OF A NICELY SHORN SHEEP FOR THE BARBER.] I showed Luigi a picture of the haircut I wanted. [ A VERY ROUND SHEEP AND A SQUARE SHEEP.] When that first haircut didn't turn out like the picture, I blamed myself for the miscommunication. When I came back and showed him the same picture, along with a few clarifications, he gave me a new haircut which matched neither the picture nor the first haircut.

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