Heads or Tails

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Heads or Tails ……

By JimB (C)opyright July 2021

“Heads or tails”?” Cora asked Bob.

“Yes, heads or tails” you never played it,” Bob replied.

“I don’t know what you are talking about,” Cora told him.

“It’s a game,” Bob continued.

“Let’s say you were thinking about going swimming in the lake and could not decide to or not.

“You take a quarter and say, “heads” I’ll go swimming in the lake.

“If it’s tails I won’t go swimming in the lake.

“You toss, flip, the quarter and let it land.

“If it comes up head you go swimming in the lake and it is tails you don’t go swimming in the lake.”

She looked at him, “Kind of childish if you ask me.

“Why would someone just flip a quarter and let it decided if you go swimming in the lake or not.”

“You can do it with anything, for anything you want to do,” Bob continued.

“Let’s say you were undecided about cutting your hair.

“You could just toss a quarter and say “head” I will, “tail” I won’t.

“Or, you could play the same toss the quarter, only you take five quarters put them in a plastic glass, shake it up, and toss the quarters out.

“If three or more of the quarters you do what ever “heads” is for.

“But, if it comes up “tails” do not do what ever.”

They looked at each other, as she thought about it.

“Let’s say, I was undecided about, say cutting my hair,” she said as an example.

“I could, would, put five quarters in a plastic glass, shake it up, and toss the quarters out.

“But, how would I know what “heads” is for and what “tails” is for.”

Bob just shook his head, “You have to say what “heads” is for and what “tails” is for, before you shook the glass up and tossed the quarters out.”

Bob reached in his pocket, “Here, I have quarters.

“Let’s say “heads”, three or more “heads”, and you cut your hair “short”.

“If it is three or more “tails” you don’t.”

“But, who would cut my hair?” she asked.

“And, how would I get my hair cut.”

Bob sat there looking at her and could not believe what she was asking, saying.

“YOU …..

“You would say what “heads” is for and what “tails” would be the opposite.

“Another words, “heads” you would get a hair cut, a “short” hair cut.

“Then, you would do the same thing for “who” would give you the hair cut, the “short” hair cut.”

Holding the five quarters in her hand, she said, “Could I leave that, the hair cut and who cuts my hair, to someone else?”

“YES”,” he told her taking the five quarters from her.

He put the five quarters in a plastic glass and started shaking the quarters up.

“Let’s say, “heads” is for “me” saying how “short” you get your hair cut, where you get your “short” hair cut, and who gives you the “short” hair cut!”

“What if I don’t like how the hair cut you want, who cuts my hair, and where I get my hair cut?” she asked as she took the five quarters and put them in the plastic glass and started shaking them up.

“You can play the game for whatever you want,” he replied as he reached for the plastic glass.

“HEADS”, she said as she tossed the quarters out.

They held their breath as the quarters fell to the floor and rolled around and stopping.

She bent over, counting the quarters.

“Five quarters!” she told him.

“Now you see how the games goes,” her told her and started to leave.

“I said it’s FIVE QUARTERS,” she said again.

“Where do you thing you are going.

“You don’t want to miss me getting my “short” hair cut, where I get my “short” hair cut, AND who gives me my “SHORT” hair cut!

“Do you.”

He sat there looking at her and wondering what she said.

“DO YOU!” she said again.

“You don’t mean me!” he said to her.

She stood up and reached for his hands, “YES, you.”

“Well, I know….,” he started to tell her.

“It was five heads,” she told him.

“And, I have played the game many times.

“And, I have always gotten what “five heads” were for.

“But, never for a hair cut, I have been trying to decide on.”

“There’s a barber ….,” he started to tell her, when she started to say.

He put his left hand over her mouth.

“There’s a barber shop a mile from her and there is a lady barber who would give you the “SHORT” hair cut I have decided on.”

“Hi Cora,” the lady barber said as they entered “Doris’s Barber Shop”.

“I see you lose the five quarter toss.”

“Yes and he will tell you how “short” to cut my hair.”

Bob stood there looking at them and looking stupid.

“Well, tell Doris, who by the way is my older sister, how “short” you want my hair cut.”

Bob could hardly believe what they said.

As she sat in Doris’s barber chair, Doris told her, “So, after winning every five quarters toss over the last ten years, you lose one.”

She caped Cora, “Want to take me up on that bet we have been having?”

“Fifty dollars, I believe,” Cora replied.

“Well, Bob tell Doris how “short” of a hair cut you want me to get!”

He stood thinking about.

“A flat top!

“A flat top with the back and sides shaved.

“And, a quarter of an inch on top.”

“DAMN, I lose again and you won,” she told them.

Doris grabbed her clippers and put on the quarter in attachment.

She placed it in the center of Cora’s head, at the hair line, and slowly moved it back over her head pushing fifteen inches of her hair to fall to the floor behind her barber chair.

“Damn, girl,” she said to her sister.  “Didn’t think your hair was that long.”

Doris took her comb and slid it back and move the, now attachmentless, clippers over it.  Slowly she worked her comb and clippers back leaving hair a quarter of an inch in length.

She placed the attachmentless clippers on the right side of her sister’s head and slowly moved it backward, around the back of her head.

Then, she walked to the left side on her head and placed the attachmentless clippers and slowly moved it backward,

She titled her head to the right and began moving the attachmentless clippers up the side of her head.

As she began to slowly move the attachmentless clippers up the back of her sister’s head, Doris asked, “Do you want to make …..”

“No,” she told Doris.

“That’s going to be a “give me” for him.”

Doris spread some pre-shave lotion over her buzzed back and sides.

With warm shaving lather she lathered the right side of Cora’s head and slowly lathered the back and left side.

Doris stropped her straight razor and raised it and began shaving the right side of her head.

As she stepped behind the back of her barber chair, she started to ask Cora.

“That’s a “give me”,” she told her sister.

Doris patted her on the shoulder.

Bob sat wondering what the “give me” were.

He watched as Doria shaved Cora’s eyebrows off.

“I guess that was one of the “give me”, he said to his self.

“Do you know what Bob has been drinking?” she asked Cora.

“I’ll find out in an hours,” she told Doris.

Standing and looking at her “short” hair cut in the mirror over the waiting chairs.

“I can shave you again like last …..” she began saying.

But, Cora quickly shook her head “no”.

“Now why don’t we go to my place and I can try and find out what you have been drinking tonight,” she told Bob as they walked out the barber shop.

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