Mottaiyandi in my native tongue Tamil, literally means the 'the guys who shaves your head off'. I'm guessing his family has been in the profession, and thus he inherited the name. He ran a small outfit on the main-road, near the rural university where I grew-up. Every alternate Sunday morning, I would pedal my mom's cycle up to the entrance (the main road was at the entrance to the university), to get my hair-cut with Mottaiyandi. I vividly remember the posters of scantily clad women that decorate the walls of his little salon, courtesy of an Indian liquor company. On my way back, I would fill my pockets with fried groundnuts and cycle home slowly. As I returned home, mom would be waiting to give me a oil massage and a hot shower. Then came the Sunday lunch. Bliss!
From Mottaiyandi, traveling to different parts of India, my hair-dressers have done a fairly consistent job. They all seem to have descended from the same family, their consistency and standardization marvels me in a 'so-called' unorganized sector.
When it was time for my haircut in the US, I was really nervous. As i descended down the elevator, I did the whole managing hair with my hands thing (Punjabi style, perfected by Hari), and almost chickened out.
Gathered my courage, and stepped into Sindhoor Beauty Salon.
My first question: Is this a unisex place?
Lady in the counter: Yeah, please take a seat
Me: How much is it for a hair-cut?
Lady in the counter: 10 $
Me: Ok
Lady in the counter: This is my daughter, she will be cutting your hair today. She is hearing impaired, so you have to communicate with me and I ill convey it to her.
Me: Ok!
Lady in the counter: Dont worry, she has been doing this for seven years.
I guess it worked out fine. I was satisfied and realized my fears were unnecessary. Hairdressers globally speak the same language.
From Mottaiyandi, traveling to different parts of India, my hair-dressers have done a fairly consistent job. They all seem to have descended from the same family, their consistency and standardization marvels me in a 'so-called' unorganized sector.
When it was time for my haircut in the US, I was really nervous. As i descended down the elevator, I did the whole managing hair with my hands thing (Punjabi style, perfected by Hari), and almost chickened out.
Gathered my courage, and stepped into Sindhoor Beauty Salon.
My first question: Is this a unisex place?
Lady in the counter: Yeah, please take a seat
Me: How much is it for a hair-cut?
Lady in the counter: 10 $
Me: Ok
Lady in the counter: This is my daughter, she will be cutting your hair today. She is hearing impaired, so you have to communicate with me and I ill convey it to her.
Me: Ok!
Lady in the counter: Dont worry, she has been doing this for seven years.
I guess it worked out fine. I was satisfied and realized my fears were unnecessary. Hairdressers globally speak the same language.
14 comments:
pardon my cliche' aana mudi vettarathukku 10$!!! idhellam over...especially considering ur hair which just abt qualifies in the definition of locks of hair :)...idhikku ni mottiayandi kitta mottaiya adichite poyirkalam .... oh yeah one more thing mudivettarithikku oru blog thevaiya..adhuvam yenna madhiri oru vetti aal padichittu comment vera panarathu yennakku thevaya nnu therila?
"I guess it worked out fine. I was satisfied and realized my fears were unnecessary." We will be the judge of that Santosh, send the snap.
Hahaha.. Tht was a nice post! Enaku sirippu than vanthuchu :P
On an unrelated subject, Blogrolling u in my blog with ur permision
:D
dei vairu eeriyeradhu 10$ for a haircut... at bim for 25 i could get a free massage a nice hair cut and a shave even
also adding you on my blog,permission plz
why are you bringing me in to this unnecessarily... I dont even know what you are talking about
Hari:
I dont know toiletseater personally, but maybe he is too nice to tell you this:
If you dont like this blog, then why read it.If you must overcompensate for your insecurities, please do it somewhere else.
Next post pls :D
@Santhosh:
looks like your Pop is goin' up. Also, Sorry for apprpriating your blog for this
@Archana:
1. Santhosh and I have a unique relationship that is based on mutual criticism. we are great friends btw
2. Santhosh's is the only blog that I visit regularly
3. I was not being critical of Santhosh at all... He mentioned that I introduced him to the Punjabi massage in the blog and I denied it.
4. Both Santhosh and I are argumentative loud mouths who enjoy arguing.
5. I dont see how all of this is any of your business.
Oh you dont know me personally either!!!!! :)
Some1 is missing :>
Ponnarasi:
This is not fair, you took a break from blogging for 2 whole months! I was just gone for a week may be.
Archana:
I have to acknowledge that I'm pretty close to Hari. You have to look pretty deep inside (Im talking a couple of miles) to see that he is pure gold. The pure gold comes with certain idiosyncrasies. He is being nice to you!
Sud:
What a loser?
You are right, this is N.O.M.B. Looks like the two of you are a mutual admiration society!
Will be nice if u can post some of those snaps..
kk
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