Xander ,'Beneath You'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Much ~ma to all the Buffistas in need today.
My mom used the 1/4 inch attachment on the razor for my brothers until they were in their teens. She cut my hair until I was around five. I'm not sure why she quit, maybe because she went back to work fulltime and just didn't want to take the time. That, and getting a pixie cut at the local salon cost all of 50 cents. Kinda mind-boggling when you think how much we pay today.
Heh-- true story. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine and I were driving from Jax up to Atlanta for a writer's conference. We stopped for gas or snacks or something somewhere in the middle of south/central Georgia where the most commonly seen hairstyle on men, women, and children alike was a seriously old school mullet. I mean, severely chopped at the ears, insanely long in the back with very few layers-- certainly none of the graduated variety. And my friend was all "Who gets their hair cut like that on purpose? And maybe more importantly, where do you go to get a haircut like that? Do you walk into a salon and say, 'I'd like a circa 1987 Billy Ray Cyrus 'do?'"
I replied, "They probably just use a Flowbee."
She looked at me funny and asked, "What the hell is a 'Flowbee?'"
I thought she was joking. She wasn't. She honestly didn't know what a Flowbee was and after I explained it, she thought I was joking. She was so convinced I was trying to yank her chain, that she called her husband from the road and asked him if he'd ever heard of a Flowbee, which he had.
She remains appalled to this day. Both by the haircuts and the idea of the Flowbee.
PC, ~ma to your grandfather- my grandmother had some similar problems and she is still alive and kicking! Hopefully it will all get resolved for you guys too.
I hope. My aunt said he'd be in the hospital for a few days, but I don't know what the prognosis is supposed to be.
What the hell *is* a Flo-Bee? I feel I've heard the term but I don't know what it is.
What the hell *is* a Flo-Bee?
It's an electric trimmer with a vacuum attached to clean up the cut hairs.
If I ever flip out completely and start attacking people, I think it'd be most fun to attack people with a Flowbee.
"Ha ha ha ha ha! Mullets for everyone!"
~ma to P-C's grandpa, bonny, and Theo's mom.
I have a lot of fine, straight hair that my mom swears was a beast to deal with when I was a kid. She always kept it short and she sometimes cut it (whoa) [link] She started with perms on me at about 12 or 13, and I believed her when she said my hair was terrible without a perm [link] Then when I had to start paying for the perms myself (at 19), I stopped getting them and discovered I actually really like my fine, straight hair . Especially when I figured out my OTHS (one true hair style) - the bob with bangs - which I've had off and on since I was 19 [link]
GC presents Cuteness through the Ages!
lisah, I meant to comment that your childhood photo was precious as hell. So adorable!