Wednesday, November 2, 2011

When You Get Your Hair Cut In Korea...

You will have to take your shoes off when you enter the shop.
Someone who is not going to cut your hair will do everything but (she’ll wash it and clip it up while it’s wet so that you have no opportunity to show the person who does cut your hair what you want done).
The hair dresser will be super nice but will not really listen when you explain what you want (even though he asked).
He will sing to you in his best falsetto voice for the entire FIVE minutes that it takes him to cut your hair.
He will do exactly what you tried to ask him not to do when he wasn’t listening.
The other woman will return to help him blow-dry your hair.
At the very end, he'll ask you right before you get out of the chair how your Halloween was (and he'll say it sounds like you had a lot of fun because you're losing your voice...even though it's just your normal voice).
You will not know whether or not to tip because the rules are different in Korea.
You will be flustered from being confused about tipping so you will start to walk out of the store in the slippers that they gave you at the beginning, instead of your own shoes, and everyone will yell at you in Korean to come back and change.
In the end, you'll walk out the door into beautiful Seoul and it's perfect weather. You’ll find it amusing that people in other countries can never cut your hair correctly and you'll be perfectly happy to be where you are with your crappy hair cut.

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