I got my hair cut today and was not expecting to find such great characters in the salon. Here’s what I saw:

  1. 95 (at least) Year Old Man with Walker – This is a first. I was sitting in the chair waiting for a shampoo when an ancient, hunched  over man shuffled by with his walker. He was being assisted by a younger man, because the walker was not enough to hold him up. I looked up and nearly died when I saw the old man had neon orange hair dye on his head, eyebrows and moustache. This was not a color that one would ever find in the natural hair rainbow. Oh how I’d love to have been able to interview the old guy.
  2. Bagel Hoarder - The salon puts out a tray of bagel chunks and a tub of cream cheese near the coffee for patrons to enjoy. They are usually dried out and hard to swallow. I observed an elderly woman shoveling them in her mouth, 3 at a time. She was coughing, but still shoveling them in. Then she started talking to someone and bagel crumbs were flying out of her mouth. I was getting nervous, thinking that she would choke to death, but somehow she managed to live through it. When she turned and walked away from the food, I noticed that she was blinking a lot and had cream cheese all over her eyelashes.

Look around you. Observe people. Listen in on conversations. You never know when you’ll find inspiration for a character in your next story.

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