Simple Pleasures

The other day I went to get a hair cut at the corner barber shop. One thing I have always felt and experienced it again, is the fact that, you have to give minimal instructions to the barber here and he invariably knows what you want and rarely screws up. In US, no matter which barber I went to, I always had to be very specific in providing the instructions and still there were these screw ups. Anyway, getting back to the story, after the hair cut was done, he asked me if I wanted to get a shave. I felt at my scratchy beard and gave him a go ahead. At the end of the shave, he asked me if I wanted to dye my hair which I promplty refused. However as soon as he mentioned about oil massage (to my head) I thought I will give it a try since I have always enjoyed the quick head massage before. After I had picked one of the 3 choices of oil, the oil did wonders in terms of cooling. It was as if, you had eaten mint using your head instead of mouth! The massage to the head was the best part. At the end of it, he suggested that I try steaming my oily head to stimulate the scalp. By now, he had me eating from his hand and I just suckered into one more of his service. He put this dome (the kind used on females for doing perm) and blasted some good steam all around the scalp for nice warm up. At the end of it he massaged the head again and had me walking out of the salon with a very light headed feeling (pun intended). The surpise was the cost, only Rs 100/- (hair cut + shave + oil massage + steam) which would have had been my tip in US for a regular hair cut. I went away promising myself a routine service with this guy but haven't had time to go back to him since. Even here, it is the same story; You may have a facility right next door to you but making time to use it is the hard part.