Once I went to a new barber shop in my area, and got a Russian woman who was pretty much right off the boat, and spoke very little english it seemed. I told her that I wanted #2 on the sides and blend in the top. She immediately put on the #2 guard and cut a stripe right in the middle of my crown. I asked her what she was doing, she said “#2 sides un top.” (Well, she was partly right… that’s what I ended up getting.)
Ah, Adam, don’t you know that you’re just changing one set of jokes for another?