An Encounter With A Street Barber

I’d love to do my haircut at a hair salon in CBD. 

We all nurse that secret ambition. My bank balance has, however, kept me and my head under makeshift shades and on plastic chairs. I only go to CBD to argue with BURS staff about miscalculation on my tax returns.

For a good number of us the Street Barber is the solution to uneven hair and balding heads. God bless the Street Barber. Street barbers are doling out community service. How do you explain this? In the late 80s a haircut would set you back a cool P10.

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