Only a brief post today, as I am meeting J. Harold Bootstrap downtown for emergency haircuts and beer, and then an urgent stop at the tobacconist.
The two of us figure that barbers and hairdressers may soon be rolled into the National Health plan, and then who knows how long one will be forced to wait for an open chair? Months? It may be that I can persuade my current barber to open a kind of speakeasy or black market shop... I have the prefect spot in my basement, but the big challenge would be security, of course.
Then again, perhaps a travelling operation would be best. Maybe a rogue barber van... sort of a Pirate Snip. By gum, there is something appealing about the idea...
Pirate Snip=stroke of genius, though there may be difficulties if it's an operation conducted from an always mobile bus, plying the roads of America.
As for security, allow me to nominate the AA-12 automatic shotgun (plenty of Youtube vids).
Posted by: Artaban | 03/22/2010 at 03:22 PM
"Then again, perhaps a travelling operation would be best."
Just be sure you're not traveling to a neighboring state, which would give Congress the enumerated power (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) to regulate you. Mind you, they'd find a way to get you anyway.
Posted by: Patrick | 03/22/2010 at 03:49 PM
'The Old Snip" would be a fitting name for a barbery pirate!
Certainly it would be suitable for a senior-citizen barber on the lamb lest he be served up a tankard of Pelosi Kool-aid at the VA in lieu of a more costly artificial hip, pacemaker or other luxury.
A chunk from a wheel of cheese, a shot glass of rum and a #4 buzz would make for a downright jolly clientele!
Posted by: John Kasaian | 03/22/2010 at 07:46 PM