The haircut
Vic’s decision to get a haircut while on holiday backfired when he was charged $80. “I thought it was going to be $30!” he later raged to his wife,Deb. “If you’d remembered your glasses…,” she began,but he cut her off:“Either way,it’s highway robbery!” Determined to recoup the “stolen” money,Vic invested in hair clippers. “After five haircuts I break even,” he explained. As he emerged from the bathroom five haircuts later,still looking the way he did these days,it was clear to Deb that his idea of breaking even and her idea of breaking even were entirely different things. Words by Paul Connolly. Illustration by Jim Pavlidis.