At the Hairdresser

I was at the hairdresser last week.  He was late coming in, so his assistant coloured my hair.  I told her about the estate sale in my neighbourhood that I visited recently where I got a wheelbarrow for a couple of dollars.  She told me she loved garage sales.  In fact, she bought this sealed box of high quality pyrex dishes for $20 at one time.  She ended up giving it to a friend for a wedding gift.  The funny thing is, the friend loved the dishes and asked her where she got them.  She had to tell her that she forgot where she bought them.  We laughed at the 'little white lie'.  Most importantly, the dishes were loved!

So then, the esthetician came over to us, bringing me a cup of coffee.  The assistant thought she had not made it the way I like it, but indeed she had put 'just milk'.  I was surprised that she knew how I liked my coffee and I mentioned how lovely her hair was looking that day.  She told me the assistant had done her hair.  When the esthetician left, the assistant confided to me that it was in fact a wig!

The assistant had also been busy with another customer and quickly washed my hair before she had to attend to the other person.  The hairdresser came in just in time to cut my hair.  While he was cutting, the assistant came over and put mousse in my hair asking if I felt all the grey had been covered.

I left feeling very pampered that day!

At the Hairdresser

At my hairdresser last week, I met a very interesting older lady who was also having her hair done.  I was talking to the hairdresser about this couple who delivered their baby in an airplane on the way to Japan from Canada.  To make it even more interesting, the woman had no idea she was pregnant!

Anyway, this older lady started telling us snippets from her life.  It seems her sister decided to have a baby at 42 using artificial insemination.  The sister is very educated and career-minded and was never able to find the perfect partner.  However she badly wanted a child of her own and explored all her options including adoption.  She had 3 failed artifical insemination attempts which resulted in miscarriage.  Then the doctor died of an aneurysm.  She found another doctor.  The nurse there told her she had a choice of 2 sperm donors.  One of them was a short man with curly hair, married with his own children.  He had very fertile sperm and had artificially inseminated many women.  The other sperm donor was a tall,blonde,young,handsome Scandinavian studying for his Phd.  She chose the Scandinavian because she didn't want her unborn child having so many unknown cousins in the world.  The sister successfully gave birth by Cesarian section to a baby girl.  She was so overjoyed at the miracle that she actually became religious.

I found this lady so interesting to talk to.  She went on to say that she met and married her husband in 10 days much to her parents' distress.  However the marriage lasted until her husband passed way 5 years ago.  She has 2 sons and 2 grandsons who are a part of her life.  I realized she must be lonely, she had so much to say.   After her husband died she did a lot of exotic travelling as he never wanted to do that.  She went to Varanasi, India with a girlfriend.  I asked her if she got sick, and yes she did, from some chicken she ate in a fabulous palace they visited.  Her girlfriend ate the vegetarian meal.  Regardless, she had a wonderful time.  She has even visited China where she didn't get sick, remarking that she ate only vegetables there.

At any rate, it was time for me to go and I bid her goodbye as we exchanged first names.  I thought she should honestly write a memoir.