I Guess He Really IS Sick
December 6, 2006
Scamp has been home for three days from school with bronchitis, which means that I, too, get to stay home with him while he convalesces. The days have been filled with old-man coughing, many temper tantrums, fevers that pop up out of nowhere, and copious amounts of Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy.
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but since he was feeling a wee bit better (read: no fever for more than 2 hours) I decided that we should go for haircuts. I might have mentioned before my son’s aversion to getting his haircut, and how I’m fairly certain many hairdressers in my city have multi-million dollar houses due to the payoff money we have to give them just to cut my son’s hair.
So I didn’t have high hopes for today. Armed with only a GameBoy with a Kirby game in it, and the promise of renting a game for the Playstation if he got his hair cut; we went into Fantastic Sams.
Have I mentioned just how FANTASTIC they are? Well, read on…
I’m in the process of getting my hair cut. Scamp is sitting in the waiting area with his GameBoy, and I ask, “So, are you ready to get your hair cut?” and to my surprise he says yes. A very nice lady takes him to her chair, and I’m quietly warning her that “I’m not done yet, so I’m not sure how this is going to go..” and quietly checking my insurance to see if natural disasters at a hair salon by my son are covered (they’re not).
So, my son, who has to be put into a headlock previously to get his hair cut, sits calmly down in her chair and ALLOWS her to put the cover thing on, and proceeds to sit quietly while she does her thing.
I sat, three chairs down, speechless. Then, for posterity, and so that I could remind myself later on that THIS ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN, I took photos with my cameraphone:
Now I have witnesses. I was shocked I actually got to WATCH this go down instead of being in the middle of it.
He must REALLY be sick. Either way, I’m psyched, he’s psyched, and he has told me all day how cool his haircut is. It’s even cooler than mine, he says.
I definitely have to agree with him, although I’m pretty pleased with my haircut too.
December 7th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Crud, that reminds me we have to get Mikey’s hair cut. Unfortunately, ours often go like yours do. And he’s not sick.
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