I made an oath a couple months ago.... to never go to great clips ever again. well specifically the one by my house. it is literally one block away. But the thing is that i am so cheap that spending 25 or 30 dollars on a good hair cut seems nuts to me, even if i am much happier with it than the cheap salons. So i am always going back and forth.

so today i am desperate for a quick fix and what do i get in the mail..... a coupon for great clips for a 6.99 hair cut. now honestly their haircuts arent worth a penny more so i certainly wouldnt have gone there this time if it werent for that coupon. so i brace myself and prepare for the worst. i walk in and there are 3 ladies working... two of them are asians and i recognize one of them as being the one who butchered me last time and could not understand one word of english. so i will let you guess who called my name.... yep the lady who doesnt speak english. ok now first of all, how can you be a stylist if you cant understand what people are saying? it really is mind boggling that she has that job. and of course i have nothing against foreigners at all! but when i am paying for something i expect to be able to communicate with them. anyways, so my mind is going crazy thinking that i should let someone else go ahead of me and take the next stylist, but then i didnt want to look snobby or something and hurt her feelings.... but then again it is my hair and if i am not going to leave happy then i am just going to leave now..... or maybe i will just explain it really well to her and everything will be fine.....

so i start to tell her what i want and she looked at me funny, kinda confused and stuttered... then she looked at the stylist next to her and she briefly explained what i was saying... but not very well either. so i kept gesturing how i wanted it to look hoping that was a language she understood, and she seemed to understand. but when she started cutting i could tell it wasnt going to look like i wanted. but i thought ya know, i have had so many hair cuts that have been terrible that one more wont kill me, i really just want it off my neck anyways, so whatever... but then i got annoyed at myself thinking, why would i even let her cut my hair at all... that is silly. i should have waited for someone who was more experienced. furthermore i should have just paid the extra money and gone somewhere nice.

why do i keep doing this to myself???? i know it is just hair, but it seems a little insane to keep going back if i am always unhappy! the definition of insanity is "doing something over and over again expecting different results"