JimB
HIGH-N-TIGHT FOR NANCY
By JimB (C)opyright July 2025
“NEXT,” the barberette, Connie, called out.
No one got up and walked to her barber chair.
Just as she started to sit in her barber chair a lady walked into the barber shop pushing a young girl about thirteen.
“Hope your not closing,” the lady said as she pushed the young girl to Connie’s barber chair.
“NO,” Connie total the lady pushing the young girl again.
“We do not close for another hour.
“Trim?”
The lady said some thing in the right ear of the young girl.
“BUT MOM!” the young girl said.
“NO BUTS,” the lady said as she pointed for the young girl to sit in Connie’s barber chair.
“NO TRIM.”
“What kind of hair cut will your!” Connie said as she caped the young girl.
“Sorry,” the lady said quickly as she stepped back, with the left hand searching for a waiting chair.
“Nancy, my daughter, will be getting one of those military hair cuts boys and men get.”
“BUT MOM,” the young girl, Nancy, said again.
“There are three types of military hair cuts,” Connie told her.
“WHY is your daughter getting a military hair?”
“If I may ask!”
“NO you may not ask,” the lady said.
“WHO the Hell are you?” Connie asked the lady as she undid the cape.
“I am Nancy’s mother,” she said.
“Dorothy,
“As for the military hair cut!” her dad, Carl, said when he caught her putting on his Army National Guard uniform of the second time this month.
“Make that the fourth time this year.
““If she like the uniform ,,,,,
“Then, she should get the military hair to go with it.”
“Have to run to the bank,” Randy, the owner and barber of City Height Barber shop, said as he walked pass Connie’s barber chair shanking his head.
“See you tomorrow around eight?”
“Yes,” Connie said as she capped Nancy.
“The G.I. hair cut!
“Or, the High-N-Tight Hair cut.”
“The High-N-Tight Carl calls the hair cut once a month,”
“BUT MOM!” Nancy tried to say but her mother quickly said.
“If you say that again YOUNG LADY,” her mother said with a little anger.
“I will have Connie GIVE YOU — YOU KNOW WHAT.”
“Which version of the High-N-Tight hair cut do you want? Connie said as she clicked the attachmentless clippers on.
“BUZZED or SHAVED?”
“SHAVED and shaved HIGH,” her mother told Connie.
Connie tilted Nancy’s head so she was looking at caped lap.
“TOO bad you only have three inches of hair,” her mother said as she watched Connie began another movement of the attachmentless clippers leaving behind a close BUZZ CUT.
“Can’t you go FASTER?” Nancy said with a little ager.
“THAT’S it,” her mother said.
Connie clicked the attachmentless clippers off and looked at her mother.
“Sorry,” her mother said to Connie.
“I was saying that to Nancy.
“I’ll tell you about “THAT’S IT” when she get the final part of her hair cut.”
Connie clicked the attachmentless clippers back on and stepped to the left side of her barber chair.
“You did say HIGH?” Connie asked.
“Yes,” Dorothy said as she moved her fingers where she wanted her daughter’s hair clippered to.
“Let’s just say …..
“To where the top of her head has hair about three inches across her head and about five inches back to front.”
“So, you want her to have the REALLY HIGH-N-TIGHT HAIR CUT?” Connie asked Dorothy.
“As long as her hair is like I just told you,” Dorothy said with a smile.
“And, the back and sides are REALLY smooth to the tough.”
“Nancy, what did you do to get this type of High-N-TIght hair cut?” Connie asked her.
“Go ahead and tell Miss Connie,” her mother said with a smile.
Nancy said nothing.
“Go ahead …..” her mother said again.
Nancy said nothing.
“She has been trying on her father’s Army National Guard uniform on every month,” her mother told Connie.
“She would put Carl’s uniform and march around the house.
“Her dad got tired of her doing this and told me, “Just take her to the closes barber shop and have barber give her a military cut hair.
“I asked him what kind?”
“As long as it was a NICE HIGH Hight-N-Tight hair cut”, he told me.”
“How short do you want the top?” Connie asked her mother.
“Short,” Dorothy said with a smile.
“But, not smooth like the back and sides.”
With the back and sides clippered close and NICE AN NIGHT, Connie turned her clippers off.
She turned to the shelf behind her barber chair and looked through the attachments.
Then, a smile came to her.
Her left hand come out the draw with a comb.
As she turned back around, her right hand grabbed the quarter inch attachment.
“Quarter of an inch attachment OR the one sixteen inch comb?” Connie asked Dorothy as she showed them to her.
“The quarter of an inch will do,” Dorothy said with a some what disappointed smile.
“He get’s his High-N-Tight with top a quarter of an inch.”
Connie put the quarter of an inch attachment on the clippers and slowly moved it over Nancy’s head. With three quick passes of the clippers the top of Nancy’s NICE HIGH High-N-TIght hair cut was finished.
She removed the barber cape. She reached to the shelf and removed a some what larger towel and tucked in Nancy’s blouse and spread it over the shoulder,
She tossed another towel in the sink of hot flowing water.
“NO – NO,” Dorothy said quickly as she walked to the barber chair reaching in her purse.
“DAMN!
“It’s your lucky day Nancy.
“I for got the bottle of wax.”
“Give me a few minutes,” Connie said as she walked to the room.
Dorothy looked at her with wondering eyes.
“Take your pick,” Connie said as she held a small tray with bottles.
“I keep them here because my daughter like to look through mom and dads
“thing we bring home.
“And, my husband, Roger likes me nice smooth and hairless when we play, as we tell our daughter.
“I do bring home a bottle.
“I put a little on my daughter’s arm and give a gentle pulling with some light and short hairs.
“I do it incase she wants to take care of the hair when she gets older.
“So, take your pick.”
“Let’s see,” Dorothy said as she looked over the tray.
“Nancy’s has been playing “soldier” for over five months.”
“Sorry,” Connie said.
“I used the five month bottle last night.
“Now if you multiple five with two …..
“What do you get!”
“A Nancy with a NICE HIGH Hight-N-Tight for a NICE TEN MONTHS, Dorothy said with a BIG SMILE.
“Too bad you finished her hair cut.”
“These bottle are full,” Connie said with a smile.
“Accidents do happen!”
“Is that today’s news paper?” Dorothy asked.
“Major Nancy Martin,” a female’s voice, Sergeant Mary Banks, called out.
“General Myers wants to know what your thoughts are on the new regulations for female recruits .
“The short Pixie or the bottom of the ears?”
“Tell General Myers I am looking into a few more short hair cuts for new recruits,” Major Nancy Martin.
“Also, let him know I will be using five …..
“NO …. I will be using twelve new recruits when they arrive tomorrow.
“And, tell the barber CONNIE Samuel I will come by her apartment around eight and to have one of her large bottles.”
“YES MAM,” Sergeant Mary Banks said with a salute.
“Sergeant Mary Banks,” Major Nancy Martin said quickly.
“We will be needing a third for the card game tonight at Connie Samuel’s apartment.”
“COPY THAT ORDER,” Sergeant Mary Banks said with a salute and smile.
“Twenty hundred hours will be find for card game.”
