Barber Shop

I was in the barber shop the other day and one of the new services my Master Barber offers is a free hair wash with the purchase of a cut. He rotates about 3 female assistants to manage the hair washing while he focuses on cutting, talking trash about how the Redskins are going to win the Superbowl, and fighting off every vendor selling everything from BBQ sandwiches to Egyptian cotton bed sheets.

Most of the time I already have my hair washed, so I typically sit and talk trash or parlay on the couch listening to my Ipod until its my turn to sit in the barber chair. One of his assistants, who is new because I don't remember her name, asked me to follow her to get my hair washed. I gently shook my head "no" and exclaimed that I had already washed my hair. As if she failed to hear what I said, she asked me a second time to follow her to get my hair washed - and this time she walked toward the door. Again, I shook my head no and continued to listen to my Ipod. As she stood in the door way, her body language and facial expression screamed that she was upset or even offended that I did not get my hair washed. I took my earphones out of my head and asked, "Did I offend you by not getting my hair washed". She walked back in the room, head down, and said, "No, do what you want to do".

At that moment I realized, like most women, she had to feel needed. It wasn't so much that I had already had my hair washed, but the reality was she was their for a purpose and she wanted to do the best to fulfil that. When a women enters a man's life; innately she wants to know she is needed. And sometimes even if we (as men) feel as if we don't need our women to do things for us - let them! Let our women do for us because it reminds them that we truly do need them.