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I have read somewhere (it could be apocryphal, although it makes sense) that for this very reason barbers tend to snip their scissors in the air a lot - to give

• collyw 12y ago
  I can confirm this happens in high end hairdressers. I have never spent a lot on haircuts, and a few years ago when I was going from long to short hair (for a job interview), my mum offered to pay for an expensive haircut for me. The haircut was not really any "better" than many of the cheap ones I had paid for myself, but the hairdresser spent a lot more time, and there seemed to be a lot more faffing about, with no real purpose as far as I could see. Most of the places I had gone to obviously needed a bit higher throughput to keep the money coming in.
  • V-2 12y ago
    As a friend of mine told me, "I don't get it how my haircut can take 5 minutes and cost 25 [nevermind the currency here], while my wife sits there for 1.5h paying 150" - so I pointed out that HER haircut is actually cheaper :) Profound? Perhaps... On the subject? Quite so! ;)