Roadside Revelations goes to the Salon

I go to the Salon to get my hair cut and colored yesterday. I arrive a little early so I sit to wait for my stylist. While I am waiting I am sitting next to a mother who has brought in her teenage daughter to get her hair cut and colored.

The teenage girl has brought a Maxim Calendar with her and wants her hair cut like Miss June. Why does this girl have a Maxim Calendar and why isn’t her mother freaking out instead of staring at Miss June and saying how lovely her hair cut and color will look on this child????

I then notice the woman that is going to cut said child’s hair. The stylist has turquoise eye shadow that colors her whole eye and brow. Her blush is hot pink and she is wearing rhinestone studded black jeans. I look at the calendar to make sure this is 2009 and not 1986, to my relief it is 2009.

I hear my name called and I look up to see my stylist who is awesome and she takes me back to her station. She gets me a coke and a stack of magazines. She washes my hair and begins to cut and color. She leaves for a little while so the color can sit and I start to read Allure.

I then overhear the stylist behind me discussing the best way to prepare and eat goat. I look up and the guy in the chair has I swear a spaceship bowl hair cut. I think OMG did he ask for that cut??? Then I notice the stylist is cutting that awful hair off the goat guy. Thank God. I listen to the goat conversation for about two more seconds then go back to my magazine.

A few minutes later I hear the stylist ask goat guy, “You wanted your hair to look like Tom Brady right?”

Goat Guy, “No, Tom Arnold.” What the Hell!!!!!! My head snaps up just in time to see the stylist jaw drop open.

Stylist, “Are you sure?”

Goat Guy, “Yes,” and whips out a picture of Tom Arnold. I am in the Twilight Zone. What the hell is wrong with these people? The stylist takes the picture looks at it and starts cutting again.

My stylist comes back and rinses out the color, finishes cutting and dries my hair and styles it. I have a short bob cut, very cute. I look in the mirror and Goat guy is now done too and has a weird Mohawk buzz looking Tom Arnold hair cut.

I did not get to see the Maxim girls cut finished, but I assume it was ok. I didn’t hear anyone yell in disgust or terror at a bad hair cut, although Tom Arnold guy should have.

It was a weird day at the Salon.