Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for August 19, 2020

Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but I always thought that women had hairdressers and man had barbers.

A good barber is like a good friend. Well, one that you don’t invite to barbecues, or to movie night or to weddings. Actually, a good barber is mostly just a stranger we trust with scissors next to our ears.

My DH would shave his hair off before he would EVER consider going to a “hairdresser”. Real men go to barbers!! His motto. Also…. real men don’t fuss about their hair.

I see a barber who may be a man or a woman depending on which chair is next in a 3 chair shop. The women will also do hairdressing in a room at the back. Nice friendly place – and they do the physical distancing and wear masks. I figure the only real difference between a man getting his hair cut by a barber and a hairdresser is the barber is way less expensive.

Have a good mid week day.

I had a certain hairstylist that I went to for YEARS — often working my schedule around hers, which wasn’t always easy to do when I had a job because she had some really odd hours during the week and on weekends. Towards the end, though, I was becoming more and more dissatisfied with the way she was doing my hair but not so much, I guess, that I felt like I had to say something to her about it.

I won’t go into details regarding my “last straw” moment with her but I will say that she forced me to find another stylist who not only did what I wanted her to do regarding my hair, but she did a better job and for less money, too, so I started going to her instead.

As for my old stylist, I never called to tell her I wasn’t coming back and why because I wanted to see what she would do. Would she notice? Or even care? As it turned out, it was apparently neither because I never heard from her again even though I had been going to her on a monthly basis for many, many years. I’m sure she knew why I quit going to her and assumed it wouldn’t have been any use trying to change my mind into coming back (which I wouldn’t have) so why bother? But still. It would have been nice to know that after all the time we had spent together — talking about ourselves, our families, our lives — she considered me more of a friend (as I did her) rather than just some random, ordinary customer off the street that she didn’t know very well. Or even know at all. It really hurt at the time but as the old saying goes: “It is what it is.” What can you do? Right? ¯\(ツ)/¯

(B/t/w: that was 13 years ago.)

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Hi, rgcviper! :-)

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Hello and Happy Wednesday, fellow Cathy fans. Hope you all have/had a really nice day today. Stay safe and well, everyone! ♥

Somehow I’m sensing a mixed message here from Irving. No idea why …

HI, MOM. Hello, Clan.