"You got your hair cut!"
1. No, I got all of them cut.
2. Oh, so that's what that guy was doing!
A more challenging thing to answer is the barber's question, How long do you want it?
I've taken to saying that I want the hair by the earlobe to be as long as will take it up to the earlobe but no further; I don't want it over the ear. And the same length all the way around.
I have no idea how else to say it. I can't estimate inches off, which they sometimes want to know, and in any case hair on different parts of the head grows at different rates, so it can't be consistent.
Often I have to give my answer two or three times. Yesterday I had an inexperienced barber and had to say it about 15 times. Even then he didn't do it right. No, the hair is still going over the ear. See? It needs to be shorter than that.
Eventually I got a satisfactory haircut, but this is why I find barbering such an unpleasant experience.
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