No Help for That | Jackie Clark

From “Mon Plaisir”:

It’s lovely.

I know, but take it off.  I want a chin-length bob.

You don’t want to go a little bit shorter?  What if I cut it here, to  your ears?

You think that’d be better?

No, but then you’d be losing more than ten inches of length, and we could give it to Hair for Care.  It’s a charity that makes wigs for kids with no hair.

Do you work for them, the charity?

No.

I think I’ll just stick with the bob, then.

You could let it grow another inch and then come back and I’ll give you a bob.  That way everyone wins.

No, I have to do it today.  It’s the first day of the rest of my life.

Oh.  I had a day like that last week.

Really? What happened?

I woke up and thought, This is the first day of the rest of my life.

Then what happened?

I drove to work.

Oh.

Yeah.

Let’s give that kid some new hair.