Thursday, 8 March 2012

Grade 0 - or epic trimmer fail

Today is International Womens' day, and as such is a day off here in Burkina where it is celebrated in some style (interesting article from last year here) before we went out, we agreed that it was time for Lons hair to get trimmed.  I do this usually, after some pretty disastrous, expensive and occasionally hysterical haircuts Lon had in Rwanda.

So, I checked that the setting was on 9 and set off mowing.  I had however forgotten to check if the attachment guard thingy  was attached.  It wasn't... there are no words to describe the feeling that you have just shorn your husbands head.....and of course it's the right side at the front, two strokes that I did, which is pretty impossible to hide...I couldn't come up with a solution which didn't look like a monks tonsure.

So now Lon has a grade 3 all over


I'm hoping that by Monday he won't look quite so GI-Joe like.

Lon has been exceptionally good about it. I would have been screaming in a heap on the floor.

He will of course being wearing his hat for the foreseeable future.
And I will be making him a crumble as penance.

3 comments:

gemblina said...

I know I shouldn't laugh... but...

Poor Lon. But at least it will help to keep him cool! x

Lon said...

Haze thinks she will be reminded for days. WRONG, she will be reminded for years!
I look like a GI Joe now.

The Toes said...

Oh NO - I dread doing that to Bill!!!!
We were only talking about that yesterday in hairdressers, it terrifies me using the clippers and Bill doesn't have as much hair to lose!!!

Poor Lonnie aka GI Lon xxx