Lira1802
“Come on, sweetheart”,Mac Hall tried convincing his daughter to go to the world’s fair with him,”There will be new inventions to see and mechanical curiosities to see and watch. It’ll be fun”
”I don’t know”,Meredith, his daughter, twirled one of her blonde locks in between her fingers,”Will there be food”
”Of course”,Mac replied with a hearty laugh,”It’ll be fun and this is a once in a lifetime chance”
”Okay”,Meredith giggled,”I’ll go”
The world’s fair was only in the small town for the weekend. On Saturday, the father-daughter duo made their way to the fairgrounds to see the oddities. Gadgets and gizmos were prevalent throughout the fair. Rides, cooking utensils, and automatons were fascinating to see.
They soon came to an attraction of much curiosity to Mac. A man stood upon a stage with a wooden chair just adjacent to him. He looked like a stereotypical Frenchmen and his voice was enthusiastic.
”Ladies and gentlemen”,his voice boomed through the forming crowd,”I have invented a device that clears off hair from your head. Such devices we have now are too slow and causes your hand to cramp up every five minutes”
The man held up a device that was tubular and had clipping blades on one end,”What I have in my hand will half the time needed to clean off the unwanted hairs on your head. Now, who wants to see the results of such a miracle”
Mac instinctively raised his hand,”My daughter wants to try it out!”
”Dad!”Meredith whispered to her dad,”I don’t want to go up there, let alone get clipped”
”Please”,Mac begged,”I’ll buy you all the candy you want if you do this for me”
”Ugh”,Meredith sighed,”You owe me”
Meredith made her way through the crowd and up onto the stage. The man that was so confident before hesitated as the girl sat down in his chair,”But… you’re a girl”,he said.
”Yeah, and I want to see what your device can do”,Meredith was annoyed the man was treating her differently than if she were a man.
”I-I okay”,the man accepted he was trapped and started to cape up the girl. He tied a striped cape around her body and then revved up his tool. The machine’s vibrating blades began to mow through Meredith’s long, blonde hair. Up and down and all over her scalp, the man buzzed the girl’s hair down as far as it could cut.
When he was done, the man composed himself as he switched his tool off and dusted the stray hairs off Meredith’s face and shoulders. He undid the cape and said,”Voila!”
The crowd looked on, totally entranced by Meredith’s beauty. Every girl in the small town had long, sometimes down to one’s ankles, but Meredith had not a hair on her head. One minute age, she had such long, lovely hair that fell down her back. Now, she had bare a sixteenth of an inch of hair on her head: it was like magic. Everyone started to cheer for the girl as she made her down the stairs and back to her father.
”I’m back, pay up”,Meredith giggled like a schoolgirl, rubbing the short stubble on the back of her head,”I have a hankering for something sweet”
”I’m so proud of you”,Mac embraced his daughter and kissed the crown of her head.
