Hairy situation:When it comes to giving a...
Hairy situation:
When it comes to giving a haircut, two heads are better than three. Downtown barber Joe Navarro learned this when a male customer showed up with his girlfriend.
She was there because, as she put it to Joe, “You always cut his hair too short.”
The truth was, Joe cut it the way the boyfriend wanted it. The latter was nearly bald on top and wanted the sides cut short because, as he had once confided to Joe, he didn’t want to “look like Bozo.”
Joe began trimming and soon the woman was saying, “You’re cutting it too short again.”
The girlfriend spoke no Spanish, unlike Joe and his customer.
The customer whispered: “No le hagas caso (Don’t pay any attention to her).”
Easier said than done. Joe replied in Spanish that he’d give him a light trim this time and cut it shorter later.
A few months passed. One day, the woman walked into Joe’s--by herself. She asked if he had seen her boyfriend lately. Joe told her no and she left. Of course, Joe hadn’t expected to see the guy. His ex-customer had moved back to Mexico--after returning to have Joe finish the haircut.
THAT ELIMINATES HALF THE CITY! Luckily, this parking lot warning, which was photographed by Michael Saltzman of L.A., applies only to a local hospital.
LIST OF THE DAY: Once again, Only in L.A.’s guerrilla proofreaders have found a wealth of strange claims by various companies. They include ads for:
* A property that has “fiendly neighbors” (contributed by Craig Blyeth).
* A motor oil company with the slogan: “Keep a healthy relationship with your can” (J. S. Kleinsasser).
* Some “specious” new apartments (Jerome Gordon).
* A mountain home with “great views of the Cabinets from the master bedroom”(Ray Marks).
And, finally:
* A “2-speed electric chair, $600” (Jerry Frankel, who notes that such a piece of furniture would seem unsafe at any speed).
POOCH PLEA: Joanne Cunha of Venice--the one in California--sent along a photo of her sign, which spoofs the European roots of her community. (It was called Venice-of-America when it was founded at the turn of the century.) And the sign’s effect on dog leftovers? Cunha admits that it “has not helped.”
HUBBUB AT THE HYATT: Well, congrats to the Yankees and owner George Steinbrenner on their World Series victory. It was the first time the Yanks had been in the Series since 1981, when they lost to the Dodgers, and Steinbrenner was involved in a controversial incident at the Wilshire Hyatt Hotel in L.A.
Steinbrenner, with his hand bandaged, called a dramatic news conference back then to say he had single-handedly fought off two drunken hooligans in the hotel elevator. But there were no eyewitnesses. The hooligans were never found. We still can’t understand why this incident was never featured on TV’s “Unsolved Mysteries.”
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Jay Berman of Manhattan Beach received a bill from Sprint, announcing that “effective Nov. 11, 1996, California customers will notice an average increase of 4.8%” on some services. What annoys Berman is the phrase (used by other companies as well) “customers will notice. . . .” Why can’t Sprint just say it is “raising” its rates? Guess we don’t need “Unsolved Mysteries” to tackle that one.