today was a day of loss. today not only did a friend of mine get let go from his job, but we lost a very important member of the iwilldare.com community. ok, well a very important member of my community. she doesn’t even know about iwilldare.com
after answering 394 e-mails today, i dialed up the hairsalon and said, “i’d like to make two appointments for a cut and color with mary.”
“i’m sorry mary’s no longer with us.”
then my brain fell out. what? what? mary’s no longer with us? how could that be? i LOVE mary. LOVE her. i’ve had so many bad hair experiences that it was a most joyous occassion when i discovered mary. she’s been cutting my hair for like 3 years.
i was so devestated that i had to call sister #2 immediately.
“they let mary go,” i wailed.
“oh no! you love mary.”
“i know, i don’t know what i’m gonna do.”
i’m absolutely distraught. i hate trying out new haircutters. hate, hate, hate it. none of them will understand me like mary. i mean, with very few words mary understood exactly what i wanted. she was the creator of masterpieces including:
baby got bangs
cute hair
more cute hair
even more cute hair
sassy hair
stripey hair
this cuteness
whatever am i gonna do?
i suppose i’ll tell you next week, when i get my hair cut. . . but i am none too happy about this.
See if you can find out if Mary went to another shop, usually, if a hairdresser has moved on to another place, they will send out notices of where they moved to. Hopefully thats what she will do. At least, thats what my hairdresser did. Good luck!
The best thing I ever did was switch hairdressers. I had the same old “buzz on the sides, longer buzz on the top” style for a few years. When “Ruth” (nicknamed by her fellow stylists because she was mistress of the “Buzzie” cuts) left, I was put into the Vietnamese hands of Lo-Ann. Trepedaciously, I let her “twy sum-ting gnew”. Her cuts are awesome (so good, I can get away with only seeing her every other month, thought if I wait too long, I end up with 70’s type Luke Skywalker hair.)
Stiff upper lip! Try to find Mary but, if you can’t, don’t be too afraid to launch yourself into the unknown!
What makes you think they let go of her, maybe she graduated on to a bigger and better salon, where she makes more money. Quietly ask another of the hairdressers if they might know where she went to. My hair dresser always tells me that, she gave me her personal phone number so that when she does leave I will be able to track her down again.