A Busy Day at Master Barber's Busy Barber Shop  (Part 10)

“No need Bella” said Stephanie the Female Police Officer (Ma’am) as she walked over to look at how Cindy’s Regulation Juvenile Lockup Haircut was progressing. She looked at Cindy’s head as it was tilted back by Sir’s hand and his other hand made pass after pass with humming clippers from Cindy’s fringe across the top of her head quickly in swift motions all the way to her crown, and said “shorter for this one Sir can?”

“Ma’am YES Ma’am” replied Sir.

Surprisingly, Bella looked at the female police officer and Master Barber and said with a smile on her face “she’s looking good Sir and will look even better when shorter... Yeap shorter Sir.”

Master Barber finished with the clippers and took a spray bottle and sprayed the top of Cindy’s hair making it soaking wet. Sir now picked up his Andis Black Clipper Comb and his Joewell M2 Series professional Shears with Offset Handle (Professional Barbers scissors) moved back behind young Cindy and tilted her head back towards him again before taking the Black Clipper Comb and starting at the front of her head  and working all the way back raising the wet hair so it was sticking up spiked  and cutting it all the way down to the same length as a military academy boys’ extra short induction flattop usually reserved for cadets with a big mouth or those who try and tell the barber how to cut their tresses. The spiked hair at the top of Cindy’s head did not exceed the length of 1.00 to 1.55 inches at her fringe.

Now with a smile on his face Master barber tilted her head straightforward and slid the razor into her nape scrapping it across the back of her neck. He ran the razor up over her right ear and down her right cheek. He went around to her left side and ran the razor over her left ear as well and down her other cheek. He wiped my hairline off with the towel and threw the towel into a bin.

Just as Sir went to put some lotion on his hand and apply it to young Cindy’s skin where he had just shaved her sound of heavy rain and blowing wind becoming stronger could be heard outside.

The smell was that of masculine guys’ aftershave lotion and very cooling on Cindy’s skin.

Barber then took a dusting brush and poured some baby powder onto it. He brushed off her neck and over her ears and forehead while he loosened the cape.

 In the distance could be heard the wail of a siren, sounded like a police car or paddy wagon and became louder as it got closer to the barber shop.

Sooner then thought the paddy wagon had pulled up outside the barbershop and a male police office could be seen getting out from the passenger’s side door and proceeding to unlock the paddy wagon’s rear doors in readiness for transporting the four female prisoners to Juvenile Detention Center.  

Ma’am now made her way to the Barber Shop door and could be heard saying “They are all ready for you Bear” before coming back inside and with a loud voice shouted “on your feet now you lot” pointing to Fat girl, Asian Girl and Alcee three of the four female Juvie’s in the waiting area.

Bear, Short for "Smokey the Bear" in reference to the hats worn by some U.S. state police being similar to that of "Smokey the Bear".

Master Barber now removed the cape and unlocked the handcuffs that  had secured Cindy’s backside to the chair and said out loud in a serious and commanding voice “girl move your bum and join your friend’s over there now” pointing to Fat girl, Asian Girl and Alcee.

The Barber Shop door opened as two male police officers, muscular men with giant bodybuilder muscle wearing the Smokey Bear hats walked in.

“Ok here they are all four” said Ma’am to the Bears before one of the Bears looked at the four girls and with a stern voice said “hands behind your backs’ now all four of you”. The other Bear then proceeded behind the girls to apply PlastiCuffs on each of the four girls’ hands.

PlastiCuffs, another type of handcuffs (also called FlexiCuffs or Double Cuffs) are a form of physical restraint for the hands, using plastic straps. They function as handcuffs but are cheaper and easier to carry than metal handcuffs, and cannot be reused.

This traditional form of plastic handcuffs is cable ties, using either two interlocking straps, or a single cable tie around both wrists.

One at a time each girl was cuffed before being led out to the paddy wagon by the other Bear. First into the Paddy Wagon was Fat girl followed by Alcee, Asian Girl and finally Cindy.

The Paddy Wagon is a Police Van specially adapted inside the vehicle with a large Cell or Cage usually employed for the transportation of prisoners.

Finally all four were in the paddy wagon and one of the two Bears came back into the Barbershop  with a smile on his face, looked at Ma’am and said “what about that one” pointing to Bella.

Ma’am quickly replied” Oh Gosh No…. Bella is my best friend and you have not forgotten anyone thanks Paul”.

“Ok Ma’am…. just checking” said Paul with a cute smile on his face as he looked Bella in the eye and winked at her.

Bella being the shy girl she is just smiled back quietly and looked at the floor before face was covered with blush.

Sir now looked at Imee and said”May isang taong tumangay up ang tambak na mapahamak buhok ngayon” someone sweep up these damn piles of hair now.

Imee, the Filipino lady hair cutter quickly responded”kaagad master barber ginoo kaagad’ right away master barber sir right away. 

Bella, quickly said “Imee let me help you” and walked towards  the back of the shop and took the Ergo Dustpan With Broom, 12 Wide, Metal with a Vinyl Coated Handle, Black/Silver and proceeded to sweep up the hair piles.

Whilst Imee swept the floor, Bella held the Ergo Dustpan so that Imee could sweep all the tresses of hair into it with the broom to get away from Paul and hide the blush that now covered her face as well as her feeling embarrassed which was clearly visible by the fact that she had turned red in the face.

“Ok then we better roll then” said Paul to Ma’am before looking in Bella’s direction and saying “I reckon you would look really cute with a short haircut too Bella” and started making his way to the Barbershop door.

Bella looked up briefly in Paul’s direction and gave him a smile before pretending to look away at the floor again and mumbling the words “Thanks I hope so Bear”.

Bear made brief eye contact with Bella and winked again before opening the Barbershop door and being faced with two women looking awfully strange & battling the wet long hair around their faces standing besides a spiny Barberry shrub with yellow flowers and red berries across the road facing the Barbershop directly.

A Barberry or Genus Berberis of family Berberidaceae has many species, including the American barberry (B. canadensis) best known for its widely toothed leaves compares to the European barberry (B. vulgaris) which has more closely toothed leaves.

Just as the Barbershop door was about to close a teenage boy walked in. He looked like on of those kids who hadn't hit puberty yet, and his parents had finally decided it was time to show him who's in the driver's seat.

He looked like he had never set foot in a barber’s shop. His hair had grown in magnificent ringlets down his back, quite often he could have been mistaken for a girl.

As the boy neared the waiting area he looked at Sir  & Imee the Filipino lady hair cutter and said “I have to get my haircut please Ma’am or my mom will tie me up and shave my head bold when I get home”.

Master Barber (Sir) looked at the boy and said with a commanding voice, “Sure...   get your butt over here now.” Pointing to the barber chair where Alcee, Jonathan, Cindy and many others had been shorn.

The boy said nothing and walked over to the chair.

Sir showed no mercy in taking grip of the boys’ head and placing a neck strip tightly around his neck with just enough room to breathe before pushing his head forward and throwing a white cape around the boys’ body, simultaneously pulling the cape up securely and forcing it around his neck, pinning it securely and fastening the stud of the cape tightly around his neck before he asked him

“What’s your name boy?

“Django” he answered.

“How do you want your haircut today Django?” asked Sir with a serious look on his face.

“My MOM said to make sure I have it cut very short high and tight flat top. Mom said that since I am not paying for the haircut with my own money but hers’ I don’t have anything to say about it and if I came back home with anything longer she would tie me up and shave my head bold” replied Django.

Inevitably, some parents may regard threatening ones’ teenage son to tie him up and shave his head bold if he did not get his haircut draconian or drastically harsh or even a form of middle-class child abuse.

The reality of the matter is Django looked like a girl and would have kept his hair long, and so long it was, he would have continued to be teased and mistaken for a girl.

The reality is that 'tricking' your son into getting a haircut by telling him that you would tie him up and shave his head bold; that girls won't be interested in him with his messy long hair, or that insects like making their nests in long hair is much better then having him teased and embarrassed in public by strangers.

Sir didn't  give Django a chance to explain or question his mother’s instructions further. One could see the fear in his face and feel for him as his heart must have began to beat faster and faster.

What was to happen next was a hair cut that can only be compared to the awkwardness of a one fingered teenage boy trying to open a bra for the first time.

All that could be heard was Master Barber’s Electric Andis Clippers and Django‘s moaning as he felt the buzzing sensation on the back of his neck and watched as his hair fell into his lap -- higher and higher the clippers worked their way, shearing away all the tresses of hair he had touching his shoulders to a regulation short high and tight flat top.

          
  (To Be Continued - Parts 11 through 19 will follow soon)