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  Then he could just have said "fuck this, I don't want you as a client" and not have ruined the guys haircut...
context: I once chose a new barbershop because it was close to my work and had a good review on Google.  I was moving soon, so I wasn't finding a forever-barber, just needed a cut.
  I go, and it's all old men getting their hair cut with clippers.  There's playboys in the waiting area and a beer fridge for customers.  This is a place where old guys go every 3 weeks or whatever and "get the usual," which appeared to be with clippers.  
  I got in the chair with my curly hair and asked for the cut, but insisted he not use clippers.  Everyone started making fun, saying he probably didn't know how to use scissors anymore.
  The dude nailed it, gave me one of the best haircuts in years.  He was even shocked that I found his place on Google, says he hates it.  I'd love to go back, but live nowhere near there anymore.  Some people DO have the skills. >
  
  So many great barbers exist. All my barbers even went to start their own shops with money they made from cutting hair. If they sucked people wouldn't traffic it like that. OP is just ignorant in this area. It's like saying there's no good restaurants anywhere and all any can serve is hot dogs. Not how it works in reality. OP logic is nonexistent. >
  
  Reality is, there's no good chain barbers. Just like there's no good chain restaurants. How can something so personal as skill be packaged into an instruction set? Answer is that it can't.
  So finding a good barber means finding a hole in the wall joint with likely no marketing to speak of. It's just not something that Google can really help with much.
  Same goes for hairdressers. Women find that one woman who's got a chair in her basement and hope she never dies. >
  
  I think part of being successful in the modern business world is the ability to market. You do not need to be a big chain to market effectively. Plenty of small businesses can and should capitalize on the digital tools available to drive their business upward. 
  That being said, I do agree chain establishments seem to suck the life and charm out of an enterprise. You can tell when you walk into big chain establishments that there is no soul there. >
  
  These sorts of small businesses live off word of mouth. >
  
  My barber is a retired Marine in his late 30s, maybe 40. He says maybe 10 words total through his entire day and always has dvds of 90s shows like Tool Time running. The waiting line is always over an hour because he doesn't suck and can do anything you describe to him. You yell him what you want and he just does it with no further explanation needed. I've even seen him do "exotic" hair cuts and designs in people's hair.
  Find a different barber.
  Edit: Home Improvement...Tool Time was the show inside the show 😆 >
  
  What a legend lmao >
  
  Dude needs to up his price if he has a line out the door >
  
  But at a certain point he's gonna start getting compared at least price wise to other higher end places, and lose customers.
  Anecdotally, my barber who I went to well into my mid 20's had a $15 haircut and $20 haircut + beard trim for the longest time. Like long enough the paper it was printed on got yellowed from age. He didn't have a line out of the door (we're a smaller town) but from what I heard he never was hurting for customers. He never advertised other than just having his shop window and barbershop pole. Really good guy, barely said five words to you, etc etc. >
  
  That's how much he charges for a basic cut and beard trim as well, $20. >
  
  I told him to trim some off the top and he gave me a fucking fade.... >
  
  I moved across the country, but I got my barber to write a little instruction/ notes for the next person before I left with what I usually had done. It literally spelled out 1/2 inch off the top with scissors. Guy gave me a buzz cut. Went right down the middle with the razor as his first move so it was too late to go back. >
  
  Really hope you didn't pay for that shit >
  
  Sadly I did. Didn't tip though. It was only like $20. The guy was recommended to me and so I didn't want to make a huge stink. >
  
  It’s like he literally said “fuck this i don’t want you as a client” in the first few seconds after reading the note