The Haircut Records
I got a haircut yesterday. This was my
2,367th haircut.
I like the arrangement that
the lady who cuts my hair and I have worked out and I think she likes it too.
Explaining what I want every time I go in for a haircut had become tedious and it is not fair to expect her to remember from one time to the next so we've worked out a system whereby she keeps a file with all the data pertaining to my haircut preferences.
I'm kidding.
TWAJS.
Actually, Darla has a system that assigns a number to my haircut. In my case it is six. I sit in the chair. She says, "What number are you?", and I say, "6". I have no idea what that means
but Darla does.
Even better, Darla and I have worked out a
barter. I like to grow fresh,
homegrown veggies and she likes to eat them. So instead of handing Darla money, once she's reduced my
hair to a six, I fetch the
garden goodies and
everybody's happy.
This kind of barter system could be used in a lot of other transactions as well and I try to keep an eye out for ways to use barter as an alternative to cash or credit whenever possible.