DAUGHTERS LIKE MOTHERS

Daughters like Mothers

BY JimB (C) January 2025

“MOM you can’t do that,” Eve, who was thirteen at the time, said to her mom, Missie.

“Why not?” her mom asked as they got out the car and walked to the “Midnight Barber Shop”.

“Dad will be upset with you,” she said.

“He likes you with your long hair, as well as me.”

“You know what your dad and you can do!” her mom told her as she opened the door to the barber shop.

Morn’ Terri,” Missie said.

“Two ahead of you,” Terri replied as she pointed her straight razor to the waiting chairs.

“What about Eve?”

“She has a few more years to go,” Missie said with a small smile.

“Mrs. Collin I did not see you sitting there,” Missie said.

“SO, what are you and Mandi getting today?”

“Do I have to tell you what I want!” she, Mrs. Carol Collin, replied with a smile.

“Mandi will be getting a FF, if you know what I mean.”

“So she does not know she will be getting the FF?” Terri said with a smile.

“Come to think of that,” Missie said.

“I might have Terri give Eve one.”

“Bill tell Sandy I close at eight tonight,” Terri told Mr. Walters as he paid and walked out the barber shop.

“OKAY Mandi!” your turn.”

“MOM?” Mandi said.  “So I have to get ….?”

“You will look great with it,” her mom told her as she pointed to the barber chair.

“After all you told your dad you wanted to play soft ball this summer.

“And, you will not have to worry about your hair getting in you way.”

“Eyebrows?” Terri asked her mom as she caped Mandi.

“What do you think?” her mom said with a smile.

“A regular FF?

“Or the special one I gave you years ago?”

“It is up to you?” her mom replied smiling.

“Mom,” Eve whispered.

“Yes,” her mom replied whispering to her.

“What is a FF? Eve whispered back to her mom.

“And why the eyebrows?”

“You will see in a few minutes,” her mom told her.

“Because you will be getting the same FF as Mandi.”

“Close your eyes young lady,” Terri told her.

“WHY?” Mandi asked.

“Just do it,” her mom told her.

Scared Mandi closed her eyes.

“Eyebrows gone.” Terri told her and her mom.

“MOM!” Eve said quickly.

“Ask any question about what Miss Terri just did to Mandi and I will hope your eyes open,” her mom said.

“Scissored short first?” Terri asked Mrs. Collin.

“Or half an inch first!”

“Do I have to tell you which one,” she replied.

Terri smiled as she combed Mandi’s long hair into a thick pony-tail on the top of her head.

Terri reached under the shelf and grabbed her clippers less any attachment.

“Fast enough?” she asked Mrs. Collin.

“I was thinking about something a little slower,” Mrs. Collin told Terri.

“But, considering her questing the hair cut we both have chosen for her, the fast way will be better.”

Terri removed the attachment from the clippers.

Her left hand grabbed the long pony-tail and moved over to the left sides of Mandi’s head.

With the clippers turned downward she began combing the clippers downward a little.

“You will like the next step I will do with the attachmentless clippers,” she told Mrs. Collin.

With that done, she slowly walked back around to the right side of Mandi’s head as she checked to the edging was down enough for the next step.

“Holding the long pony-tail she turned the attachmentless clippers so it was pointing backwards.  She slowly moved the attachmentless clippers backward leave the hair clippered the width of the clipper’s head.

When she reached the left side of Mandi’s head she began moving the attachmentless clippers upward removing what long hair was left.

Finished she hung the clippers up.

She walked to her shaving lather dispenser and flowed shaving lather in her left hand.

Turning to the back of the barber chair she began lathering the back of Mandi’s head to the left side of her head.

Her right hand grabber she straight razor and tucked it in her pocket.

With the right side of Mandi’s lather, she garbed the leather strap and sharpened her straight razor.

“Nice mover.” Mrs. Collin said with a smile.

She slowly shave the back and sides of Mandi’s her.

“MOM,” Eve called to her mom as she pulled on the sleeve of her blouse.

“Is that the FF I will be getting?”

“What F? her mom asked her.

“Come on mom,” she told her mom.

“FF means FLATTOP hair cut,” she told her mom with a smile.

“I hope she does mine like a flattop is suppose cut.”

“How did you know FF mean a flattop/” her mom ask questionably. 

“Dan has one,” she replied with a smile.

“And, we have a bet!”

“A bet?” Terri said.

“He bet me I would not get one because I am a girl,” she said with a smile.

“BOY will he be surprised when he sees me tonight when he comes over mom.”

“You mean sweetheart,” her mom said.

“You were going to ask me to let Terri give you a flattop hair cut.

“And, what was the bet?”

“The BET was me,” Mandi said as she stepped from the barber chair.

“But my hair cut was to be like the one you are getting mom.

“There is always next time for my nest smooth shaven hair cut.”

“DON’T LOOK AT ME,” Terri quickly said.

“Well Miss Terri,” Eve said as she sat her the barber chair.

Terri capped her and garb her attachmentless clippers and held them up for Eve’s mother to see.

“Why not,” she told Terri.

“She can always let her hair grows some for the FLATTOP hair cut.”

Terri began moving the attachmentless clippers over Eve’s head.

Terri lathered Eve’s head and began shaving her head.

“I hope you are shaving my head SMOOTH,” Eve told Terri.

Terri smile.

“Don’t for get the eyebrows,” Mandi said.

“Okay,” Terri said. “Who’s first?”

Mrs. Collin got up and walked to the barber chair.

“My head will be smother than your head shaving next week,” she told her daughter Mandi.

“Smooth for the next five months at that,” Terri said as she showed Mrs. Collin the can.

“I was hoping for ten months,” she told Terri

Terri smile as reached in the cabinet on the shelf.

“NOW that’s what I want,” Missie said with a smile.

“Got enough for both of you,” Terri said as she opened the can.

She began waxing Mrs. Collin’s head and before she could say any thing Terri applied some wax over her eyebrows.

“Why don’t you go sit in a waiting chair Mrs. Collin,” Terri said point to the waiting chairs.

“And you Missie can sit my the barber chair so I can buzz your head.

“Then I will wax your head and eyebrows.”

“Well,” Terri said as she removed the wax from Missie’s head and eyebrows.

“She both of you in TEN months.”

“Mom can I go with Mandi,” Eve asked her mom.

“She wants to show me something.”

“That’s up to Mrs. Collin.”

“Don’t you have to go to Uncle Stan for a few hours,” Mandi said to her mother.

“Well,” her mother began.

“How will I get to Uncle Stan.”

“Just show me where to go,” Missie with a smile.

“I will be home around eleven tonight,” Mrs. Collin told them as she and Missie drove off.

“OKAY they are out of site,” Carol told Missie.

“Hope they will stay a way for the next seven hours.”

“They will,” Carol to her.

“Uncle Stan, my cousin, lives two hundred miles from here.”

“So did you bring the BIG one.”

“Right here,” Terri told her as she open her purse.

“It was the only ten inch one they had.

“Think you can take it?”

Carol smiled.

“Can you,” Carol replied.

“Did you get the wax like you sad,” Eve asked Mandi.

“YEP,” she replied.

“I will get you smooth for ten months.”

“Is your tongue that big as Dan told me,” Eve asked Mandi.

“Is this BIG enough for you?” Mandi ask Eve as she showed her the BIG tongue she had.

“Dan almost chocked when I gave it to him.”    

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