When Aaron had returned home from his first visit to Mylanne’s Barbers he seemed to be in a bit of a trance. Naturally his mother Maxine was totally shocked by the drastically short transformation, which her son had received there. Initially she just couldn’t work out how the cute little long haired lady, whom Aaron’s friends had described to her as, could possibly have thought out a haircut like this for her son! “Good Lord Aaron what on earth happened”, she gasped? She asked her son to turn around and couldn’t believe how short Aaron had been sheared! “Well my love I know I wanted you to get a proper decent haircut this time, but oh dear you needn’t have gone as short as this”, she exclaimed! “Well I didn’t exactly have much choice I told the woman what I wanted and assumed that she would do just that. The first thing I knew though was a cut nearly all done with an electric clipper. She started off by cutting it rather short and then she just went shorter and shorter. The only thing that she cut with scissors was my fringe”, explained Aaron. Then he blushed, “I didn’t really mind though as she’s such a lovely little lady and what lovely long hair she’s got too. The only thing that I can’t understand is what on earth made her cut my hair like this. I’d have thought she might at least have left me with a bit more length”! “Well Aaron the point is at least you’ve had a good smarten up eh” said his mother? Then she added,” if you had a little crush on her then surely that’s a bonus. Anyway I’m already getting used to your new haircut”! As Maxine was saying this she affectionately ran her hand over her son’s short cropped head and actually liked the feeling of his soft remaining fuzz in his neck. At least her initial shock was subsiding and she was delighted that her son was not too upset about the matter.
The weeks went by and in next to no time Aaron’ s hair had grown considerably, it was already touching his shirt collar and dangling half way over his ears. Sooner or later Maxine said,” right my lad its time you had that haircut renewed if you have it any longer you’ll start to look like a girl again”. As it turned out today was a school holiday and Mum went on to say,” how about another trip to Mylanne’s Barbers and lets get that hair cut nice and short again eh”? “Okay mum if you give me the money I’ll go there just now”, replied Aaron. “Well I was hoping that you wouldn’t make me push you into going, but I’d like to come with you this time my lad”, said his mother and if anything Maxine had a bit of determination in her voice! “I’m okay going on my own mum but if you want to come along I suppose you’d better”, replied Aaron”. “All it is Aaron is that I’d like to get a look at this Mylanne I’m just a little curious that’s all”, said his mother. “Fair enough then mum you come along too”, said Aaron. “Well then my lad that’s it settled then and what exactly are we waiting for? We know where we’re going so lets go then”, said Maxine rather brashly! In next to no time the two of them had arrived into their local town area and were walking through the door of Mylanne’s Barbers.
Unlike the previous time Aaron had to take a seat in the waiting area today for a young woman had brought her two sons for their monthly haircuts. One boy who was the eldest of the two was sitting in silence with a newly done crew cut. His little brother was sat high up in the chair with Mylanne’s large white cape around him; he was obviously sat on the cushioned board that went across the chair’s arms. Whilst Mylanne and his mother were happily chatting, Mylanne was running her clippers through his thick brown hair and shearing it all off close to his scalp! The sound of buzzing filled the salon. The first time the lady had brought her two young sons to Mylanne’s Barbers she was totally unsure about the way the cute wee Scottish Lassie had serviced them both. Nevertheless she’d soon come around to her way of thinking and had brought them both back within a month. Without a second thought the lady had asked Mylanne to service her two boys exactly the same as she had on the previous occasion! Mylanne had no problem remembering either and she simply was pleased that she didn’t have to invite herself to cut their hair as she wanted, rather than how their mother had requested! The little boy had been sitting in the chair five minutes or so and then Mylanne said to his mother, “is that short enough or should we go a wee bit shorter”? “No that will have to do as his father will go mad if I bring him home with his hair cut any shorter”, replied the woman! “Okay I just thought that the wee laddie wid look mair like a wee cherub with almost nae heer”, smiled Mylanne. In the meantime the litte boy was sitting there tongue tied and his young mind didn’t really grasp properly what was going on anyway. Mylanne didn’t want this lady to start taking her two sons elsewhere every month for their haircutting, so she uncaped the little boy and brushed him down. He blushed as Mylanne lovingly rubbed her delicate hand over his freshly shorn head. She found the velvety texture really cute and couldn’t help smiling to herself! In an instant their mother had paid her and the three of them exited the salon.
Soon Mylanne returned to her barber’s chair and held out the unfolded white cape in her hands. She beamed as she recognised Aaron from the previous time,” hello young man sae ye’ve come tae give me another go then eh”? “Yes that’s right I gradually got used to the cut that you gave me last time”, he replied. “That’s guid weel its nice tae see ye again anyway and at least ye know whit kind of a barbers shop this is noo despite me being a woman”, smiled Mylanne? Aaron walked over to the chair and sat down; his mother smiled at him in the mirror as Mylanne caped him and pushed some tissue down his neck. She was now ready to begin cutting Aaron for the second time. Aaron was able to see the full length of her hair today for she had her long hair brushed down loose with the sides clipped back behind her ears with two matching hair combs. He already knew that when Mylanne was cutting a customer’s hair, thoughts regarding the length of her own hair simply wouldn’t concern her at all! He also knew from the previous time that no customer would exit her salon without his hair cut nice and short either. Some for that matter would be fortunate if she even remembered to leave them any hair at all! Once comb over baldies had got used to the way she serviced them they’d find that it wasn’t unusual for her to nearly shave their heads completely smooth! Most of them returned within four or five weeks and seemed to be content regarding accepting her repeating the same again. Yes how she could render even the biggest men completely tongue tied once they were sat down in her barber’s chair and caped! Her alluring green eyes starring at them in the mirror and the polite, but firm and sweet determination in her voice seemed to well and truly do the trick!
“Weel then my young man whit am ah daeing wi ye then”, asked Mylanne politely as she ran her comb through Aaron’s considerably grown back hair? However he knew as well as she did what the end result could be. However before he could even speak his mother answered for him. Aaron watched him mother get up out of her seat and say to Mylanne, “right then my love I’ll have you know that you made an excellent job of my Aaron’s hair last time and as far as I’m concerned you can give him a nice short clipping again. It took a day or two for me to come round to his transformation, but now I know what I like to see”!
Mylanne’s cascading tresses made a swishing motion as she turned her head towards Maxine Clarkson. “Ah yes ah remember weel whit ah did wi Aaron’s heer and if ye’d like me tae dae it like that again then that’s really guid”. Mylanne smiled as she added, “dinna worry mah love ah always cut boys heer as their mother’s say sae that’s nae problem at all”. In the meantime Aaron was once again totally tongue tied and he partly didn’t believe what he’d just heard his mother say. He knew that he was about to become this cute little lady’s clipper victim once again! Mylanne’s hair swished again as she turned her head back to her customer. She took her clippers off their hook, felt in her smock pocket for grade comb no. 2 and snapped it onto the end. As Mylanne combed the back of his hair she started the clippers, the silence was broken by an abrupt clack followed by a low hum. “Richt then Aaron heid doon please”, said Mylanne softly. The boy obeyed and meanwhile his mother carefully observed what was going on!
Mylanne made the first pass up the back of Aaron’s neck and his mum observed the first shorn furrow, which appeared. After this followed several more and Maxine seemed to be fascinated, regarding how much of his hair was falling onto the cape and rolling onto the floor. The little lady shaved upwards and then flicked the clippings away with her comb. Soon she’d done the back and then she started the sides and in next to no time Aaron’s ears had no hair anywhere near them anymore. “Good Lord how that clipper you’re using quickly removes hair,” exclaimed Maxine!” Ah yes its a lovely feeling tae dae tae a guid untidy head of heer like his and how nice it’ll be tae send him oot looking all freshly cut and smart”, replied Mylanne. Soon she removed the no. 2 guard from the clippers and felt in her pocket for the no. 1. As soon as she found it she snapped it into place and explained to Maxine that Aaron was to be now cut even shorter in his neck and at his ears. Maxine didn’t object in the slightest she just said,” yes okay my love get him nice and short I certainly don’t mind it’s a good clipping he’s getting so go ahead”! Aaron looked in the mirror at his seemingly content mother who was sitting directly behind him. She had a shoulder length bob of well cared for light brown hair and he certainly couldn’t understand why she should be encouraging this cute little barberette to shear his hair into oblivion!
What he didn’t understand was that his mother when she was a school girl used to accompany her younger brother to the barbers when he was a little boy. Young Maxine used to watch all the shearing activity that was going on and dearly wished she could get up with the men who serviced the customers. How her fingers used to itch to cape a customer and give them a good short shearing. The fact that she had waist length pigtails wouldn’t make her spare the guy in the chair what he was due to receive from her either! However when she told her mother about her secret ambition, the lady just told her not to be so silly and that barbering was simply a job open only to the men. Young Maxine was simply told to get the idea out of her head and to forget it! These memories came back into her mind as she watched Mylanne holding Aaron’s head forward and running the clipper up his neck with the close cutting no. 1 grade. The pale white skin of his scalp started to appear once more as Mylanne continued to clip upwards. She seemed to wearing a concentrating hard expression on her face, in the form of a cute smile and she finished each pass about an inch below the original. Soon she moved Aaron’s head over to once side and began around his ears. Aaron felt her delicate, smooth and well manicured fingers holding his ear down gently as she worked the buzzing shears around it. The same was repeated for the other side and Mylanne said to his mother,”weel can ye see how its starting tae take shape noo but there’s lots mair tae be done yet before he’ll be finished”? Maxine simply nodded with approval whilst Mylanne removed the attachment comb from her clippers.
The little Scottish lady blended in the two lengths with her clippers and comb and then she explained to Maxine that she would use a different technique to cut and shape the top of Aaron’s hair. Just like last time she thoroughly combed what was left then she took the large flattop/crew cutting board from its hook and pushed it into the boy’s hair after telling him to look up slightly. Two inches or so lengths of hair stood upwards and then fell down softly onto the white cape as the lady zoomed her clippers over the board’s teeth. Mylanne repeated this procedure until all the top was cut down to just a fraction more than the back and sides. Aaron simply knew that it wasn’t any good arguing with the two women and just sat there without a word. In his eyes dainty little Mylanne was still his little heroine and he knew that she could still fill his mind with such a lovely fantasy. However he couldn’t understand why his mother had to be so enthusiastic, regarding her presence? “That’s more like it”, exclaimed Maxine as she observed the lady blending in the long and short hair with the large afro comb looking object, which she noticed also had a set in spirit level gauge! It was clear that Mylanne was an excellent precision cutter! Before long she turned off her clippers and returned both them and the crew cutting board to their relevant hooks.
Mylanne picked up the spray bottle and wet down Aaron’s hair “richt mah love noo this is the only part of the heercut where I’ll be using mah scissors, she smiled as she looked over to his mother. Aaron was instructed to close his eyes as the barberette gently snipped in a short little fringe at the front. As he opened them he had a pleasant surprise as he saw the lady holding a tub of hair gel. He recalled from last time how nice it was to feel her gently massaging in the gel on top, with her delicate little fingers! His eyes were closed with contentment at this part as he felt her long nicely manicured fingernails gently caressing his scalp! “Richt nearly finished noo”, said Mylanne to his mother. She picked up her clippers once more and took out her comb from the pocket of her nylon smock. “Oh what have you to do now then”, asked Maxine. “Nothing much just a wee bit of fading at his neck and sides”, smiled Mylanne. Mum seemed to be satisfied with the answer so the little lady whispered, “heid doon please” as she gently pushed Aaron’s head forward. “Oh so that’s what you mean,” said Maxine as she observed her running the clippers over the comb at the beginning of his hairline at his neck and then at his ears, followed by what was left of his sideburns. “Yes this just gives his heer the richt finish nearly done noo”, said Mylanne. “Weel that’s certainly a lot smarter he was definitely due for coming tae me for his heer tae be cut again. Once ah’ve smartened a customer up and found him ah expect him tae return on a regular basis for recutting”, she added as she turned off her clippers and returned them to their hook again. As she said this she smiled her cute smile in the mirror at Aaron who was just sitting there not quite knowing what to make of the situation. His inner voice told him that maybe something unusual was going to happen before he left here today? He just sat there silently not really sure what to think!
“There we are then Maxine I think that’ll dae him don’t ye think sae”, said Mylanne as she took the salon mirror off it’s hook and showed Aaron the back and sides? He didn’t really need to look as he remembered only too well the finished product from last time and what he saw in the mirror this time didn’t differ in any way at all! “Yes that’s excellent my friend you’ve made a good job of my Aaron’s hair again and it’s been great to accompany him here and see you give him the full works”, exclaimed Maxine! The cape was removed from around Aaron and the little lady brushed down his neck and ears with her salon neck duster. “Richt mah love you’re finished ye’ve been such a guid lad but noo I think the time has come for ye tae be told some guid home truth from yer mother”, said Mylanne with a warm smile. Naturally Aaron didn’t quite catch her drift, but he certainly did wonder how Mylanne knew his mother’s name! As he got out of the red leather chair Mylanne shook the capefull of his blonde hair over the shop floor then folded it and placed it over the chair back. His mother came forward and said, “right then Aaron this lady and I will explain our little secret to you”. He still looked a little puzzled so mum certainly put him in the picture!
Maxine continued as Mylanne looked on, “right then my son I’ve the pleasure of announcing that I’m about to train for a new career to properly restart my working life. You’re a big lad now so you can manage by yourself for an hour or two after you get home from school. I’ve enrolled on a course at a Catering and Hairdressing College and I’m going to learn Gents barbering, it’s something I’ve always wanted to learn since I was a girl. However your grandma wouldn’t hear of me doing such a thing, so I lost my chance when I was a youngster. You must understand though that nothing now will alter the fact that within twelve months I’ll be qualified in that particular trade and I will be joining Mylanne here at her salon”. Mylanne had to restrain herself from laughing out loud at the totally shell shocked expression on Aaron’s face. She simply said,” yes mah boy business is guid enough here for me tae be able tae employ an assistant and ah think yer mother Maxine would be weel suitable for that job. Ye widna believe it but she came doon here tae tell me aff after Ah’d initially cut yer heer sae short last time. However ah told her whit kind of a barber’s shop ah runs here and we kind of got talking. Soon we found oot that we had a lot in common wi each other. She told me that she used tae go tae the barbers wi her wee brother when he wis a wee laddie and she wis interested in learning the trade. Weel naturally ah didna beat aboot thae bush, sae ah told her tae train for the job and ah could set her on as mah assistant”!
Mylanne burst out laughing at Maxine’s next statement she simply said,” you may as well face the truth son of mine you can’t escape the shears. In a years time .once I’m trained in barbering my motto will be there’s no Escape! You’ll be coming here for your monthly haircut and if your little friend Mylanne isn’t available to service you then your dear mum will be glad to do so! Won’t it be nice to sit in the chair and let your mum give you a good short clipping eh? If I do there won’t be any moaning about it either you’ll simply sit quietly and understand that what I turn out for you will be for the best”! Aaron could feel his face turning hot and flushed; he didn’t quite know how to take his mother’s statement! Mylanne was still giggling as she said,” ye needna be shy if your due tae be cut by yer mother instead of me I’m sure she’ll dae ye a guid job. Mysel ah canna wait tae see it, but when she joins mah business we’ll need tae think of a new trade name for this barbers.
Copyright: - Steve, July 2008
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Subject: There’s no Escape! 
