Out of Pod Experience

So today I decided to get my hair cut as it was starting to get to long. My hair is not lengthy and i like to keep it fairly short. I have had side burns my entire life and never had any thought of getting rid of them as i keep them really tidy and they looked good. So I went to the barber shop and walked in. standing there was an Indian/Fijian lady I had not seen working there before but she had age and so would assume she had been in the profession a while. she says nothing to me and ushers me to the seat. I take the seat and she just looks at me. She goes for the shaver and turns it on. At this point I assume she is about to ask me what I want done to the sides but in the next instant my side burn was gone along with the top side of my hair. I was stunned, jumped out of the seat and flipped. One of the other hairdressers that i knew came out and fixed it up as best as she could but now I have no side burns. I actually don't mind it but i do kinda miss them.

Has anyone else had such an experience at the barber shop?

Only had one hairdresser cut my hair right... and it was a crew cut.
I just cut my own hair now... more money to play eve with

My sister's gay hairdresser friend once gave me a haircut that took a while to recover from. I was kind of growing my hair out , like a Jim Morrison or something. I thought that would be cool. But I ended up with something pretty much like a Freddy Mercury. It looked very gay culture.

Which would have been great for hanging out in San Francisco in 1990. But this was around 1986, in a small city in central Texas. Where you had around five types around: regular guys in baseball caps, goat ropers in cowboy hats and boots, clean-cut churchies, hairy rock and roll partyer-biker people, and 80s MTV hipster/preppies use hair gel and spritz. And one guy with an urban gay Freddy Mercury cut.

I've never been to a barber/salon in my life. Never had a professional haircut. My parents cut my hair when I was a kid giving me what they called a military haircut. Then in high school I let it grow long. Been long for 17 years or so. Lately I've been thinking about giving this whole haircut thing a try...

Not on my EVE character though, the dreads stay. Unless CCP gives dudes proper long hair... They were developing a vampire game FFS. Where is the long hair at?

I used to go to the barbershop for haircuts until sometime in my late teens: I never had something happen to me as dramatic as what the OP describes, but I was never satisfied with the results, I always had to come back home and fix the haircut myself to my liking.

So at some point I figured I would just cut my own hair from start to finish. Sure, I did some mistakes at first, and my dad would comment that I looked as if I had escaped from a mental asylum.

But as with anything else, becoming proficient at cutting your own hair is just a matter of practice. So I haven't set foot on a barbershop for a couple of decades, and my haircut is exactly the way I like it to be. And as a bonus, I don't have to endure hairdressers trying to "make conversation" while I would rather remain silent with my own thoughts.