Mums and haircuts
As a young lad I had a fear/loathing of barbers. The obnoxious bastard she used to take me to would push me around, in fact I think it was more him refusing to cut my hair than me refusing to go that resulted in me having my hair cut at home. Now, fashion never happened to me, so I wasn't worried about the bowl, or the blunt scissors. No, what instilled more of a dislike for hair care was a device I don't know the name for. It had the little prongs a trimmer has, but instead of electricity powering the thing, a razor blade was inserted, and the device dragged through the hair (supposedly to cut it, but more likely to just tear it out at the roots).
She had used this for years. In fact, she did my dad's hair the night before their wedding. What he hadn't told her, however, was that instead of the regular blunt blade, he'd changed it for a shiny new blade. One pull of the torture thing down the back of his head left him with a reverse mohecan.
In the morning, the boot polish came out to do the shoes, and also dad's head. Apparently the smell was quite distracting.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 10:45, 13 replies)

Oh, hell.
My mum used to cut my hair at home.

She never got any better at it.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 10:50, closed)

She also made me wear tartan trousers.
The joys of jumble sales eh?
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 11:02, closed)

are you sure
she wasn't just a huge bay city rollers fan?
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 11:32, closed)

She went to her first "gig" not long back,
Oh yes, says I, who's that then? Expecting a Saga type band a'playin'.
Black Sabbath!

I can honestly say I never saw that one coming!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 12:00, closed)

my mum is 62 this year
she's quite fond of marilyn manson
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 12:24, closed)

I know what she'd say...
Bay City Rollers; "Bay is for cooking, not for smoking"
Marilyn Manson; "Ooh she was good in "Some Like It Hot"
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 12:52, closed)

heheheh
she was singing paradise city the other day
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 12:54, closed)

Yes! (or rather No!)
We used to call it the torture device.
Sat on the kitchen table with my shirt off, and her scraping that thing over my head.....
( Boot I want to know what you meant, Sun 14 Feb 2010, 14:21, closed)

When you said shirt off...
I immediately assumed you had a hairy chest!

But yes, it too, was named the torture device!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 10:53, closed)

The Device
My mother used one of these "hair trimmers" on my hair for about 18 months, until one day I outright refused to let her near me with it.
The blade had never been changed in the entire time.
I burned the damned thing that evening.
A pre-teenage act of rebellion, or just survival?
Evil things.
(Le Grenouille, Mon 15 Feb 2010, 0:57, closed)

"I hated it so much I disassembled the company"
Pure survival, especially to a teenager.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Tue 16 Feb 2010, 10:54, closed)

click
Good story, well told
(justin(e), Wed 17 Feb 2010, 18:27, closed)

Something like this


Ours was plastic.

Oops. That's way too big. Hold on.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Wed 17 Feb 2010, 21:19, closed)