Posted on 05/02/2020 10:37:10 PM PDT by rintintin
Barber Steve Gomez was hunkered down at his home in Pueblo on Wednesday when he heard an unexpected knock. He was shocked to see one of his most loyal clients standing at his doorstep.
“He knocked on the door and says, ‘I was going up and down these streets. I knew you lived around here,’” Gomez said. The man said he was in need of a haircut and wanted to know if Gomez would be at Prestige Barbershop on Friday.
“I didn’t even know people had my phone number,” Gomez said.
He hasn’t been cutting hair since March 19, when COVID-19 forced the barbershop he works at to close. With parts of Colorado opening back up now, Gomez said his clients have called him this week wondering if they could make appointments.
“His phone and the house phone has not stopped ringing,” said Gomez’s wife, Peggy. “I don’t even know how in the hell they got the house phone number.”
On Thursday, Gomez said he was out on his front porch when a car drove by and someone yelled out the window, “Hey, Steve!” It was another client.
He’s even run into people while shopping for groceries.
“Another guy told me he had a COVID-19 haircut and he says, ‘You’re going to have to fix it.’” Gomez said. “I guess his wife or someone peeled him real good.”
Full disclosure: Gomez is my uncle. He’s worked as a barber in Pueblo for at least 50 years.
Now he’s booked solid through Tuesday, but it hasn't been an easy decision to go back to the shop today when the state allows it. He didn't want to book out further than Tuesday in case he doesn't feel comfortable or is forced to stop cutting hair again.
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I wonder how many women will let their hair go natural (gray) after this. A lady told me Thursday that some of her friends heads look like skunks with the gray stripe down the middle.
when Idaho opens this week, I hope I can dash over there and find a Great clips etc...IF they allow we inmates here in aWash to come over there..
Interesting that he can cut the hair at home but the business is still closed. Our salons are still closed in Texas and on Next Door in my neighborhood you don’t dare ask someone to cut your hair they go crazy on you.
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This hoax has turned grown men into pu$$ies!
He’s cutting at his shop. The state is allowing barbershops and salons to reopen, like Georgia did last week
Great Scott, I’m beginning to resemble Doc Brown!
If this continues much longer, millions of blondes will dissappear.
Our salons opened in Utah today! My 1st haircut in 6 weeks!
Today = 5/2
I’ve got long hair ala Heart Break Kid from the WWE. Never needed a haircut in years.
Listen all you people.
A man shaves his head, because a man does not need hair.
A man only needs a beard.
Yep.
Haven’t had a haircut since 1997.
It’s down to my belt line.
Chicks dig it.
The password is “Shave and a haircut... 2 bits”.
Oh I must have misread it.
My male neighbor, aged 82, keeps hoping somebody will cut his hair. He’s even willing to go to a hair salon and pay double to have it done. I, as a bald-headed man, have no such worries. I even joke with barbers saying I should get half off.
“Chicks dig it.”
Exactly. Why look like everybody else? Unless you are in the military or outside sales or in a bank, I see absolutely NO reason why you waste your time in a barber shop twice a month.
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