Monday, October 13, 2014

The Decline of Civilization (for 10 Minutes)


A little boy is getting his hair cut by my barber -- and I guess he has to be entertained 24 hours a day 'cause Dad is standing in front of him holding his smartphone with a cartoon on it blaring music. God help us all.

 When I posted this on Facebook, my friends who have children offered a few theories, including that some kids hate haircuts and need to be distracted (he was fine) or that it's a good way to keep them sitting straight so the barber can do what he needs to do without incident. A flight attendent agreed it was ridiculous but said, "Whatever it takes to keep the little bastard quiet."

I replied as such:

Kenneth M. Walsh I defer to my friends who are parents but I will say this: If I did not sit still during a hair cut, my mother would grab me and simply say: "If you so much as move an inch I will BREAK YOUR ARM." My hair always looked great and see how wonderful I turned out ...

5 comments:

Gary said...

What? They didn't offer him a comp glass of wine?

WickedGayBlog.com said...

Bravo Kenneth, bravo!!!!! I could not agree with you more!

Unknown said...

BUT YOU SEE, I MUST CATER TO MY CHILD AND NOT DISCIPLINE HIM, FOR HE IS ME

--and good luck on getting a parent who behaves like that to see what he is doing!

Bob K

Anonymous said...

There's a saying in my family...Begin as you mean to go on. Don't start with this shit and the kid won't need it. I'm a parent and (a) I didn't do this and (b) if I showed this to my kid he'd probably laugh hysterically.

Christopher said...

Kenneth: And if a Mom tried that today, she'd be hauled in for child abuse.