There was a blonde on a train once. He was exhausted from a hard day and wanted to sleep before he got off. He urged the man across from him to wake him up when they got to the station so he wouldn’t miss it. He offered him 20 rupees. The man said yes. The blonde didn’t know that the man he gave the money to was a barber who likes to mess with people. The barber thought it was too much to pay 20 rupees simply to wake up the blonde. While the blonde was sleeping, the barber softly and carefully took off her beard.
The blonde awakened up when the train halted, just like she was supposed to. She got off and went home. When he got there, he looked in the mirror and washed his face. He jumped back and screamed in amazement and fear at what he saw. His wife asked him what was wrong when he terrified her. When he saw the blonde’s freshly shaved and strange face, he said, “The train cheat took my 20 rupees and woke up someone else!”
Sally, who is two years old, was quietly waiting with her mom in the dentist’s waiting room while her older sister had her teeth checked. To keep herself busy, Sally played with the toys that were all over the place. She leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes for a bit since her mom was sleepy. Sally looked up and saw that her mom was asleep with her eyes closed. She walked up and shook her mother’s shoulder with a loud, sweet voice. She said, “Get up, Mommy!” This isn’t a church! Sally’s brutally honest and gloriously honest answer made everyone in the waiting room chuckle.
A parent and his little son went to a barbershop together in another city. The male sat down first and got everything done: a haircut, a shave, a shampoo, and a manicure. He put the boy in the barber chair and told him, “I’m going to the parade in a green tie.” I’ll be back soon. The barber started cutting the boy’s hair again, but the man was still gone when he was done. The barber replied, “It looks like your daddy has forgotten all about you,” as he looked around. He didn’t miss a beat when the kid stated, “That wasn’t my daddy.” He walked over to me, grabbed my hand, and said, “Come on, son, we’re going to get a free haircut!”
Then there was Marley, a redneck who got his hair trimmed at the barber shop in town. The barber worked on Marley’s hair for more than half an hour, trimming, shaping, and clipping it. He took out a mirror to show Marley the back when he was done. The barber said, “What do you think?” Marley nodded to demonstrate that he was okay with it. “Very good,” he said. “But what if we made the back a little longer?” Marley clearly didn’t know how haircuts worked, so she gave the barber a new job.
Lastly, a girl went to a pet hairdresser to find out how to cut her dog’s hair. She felt very unhappy when she found out it would cost $50. “Fifty dollars?” She screamed, “I only pay thirty dollars for my own haircuts!” The groomer looked at her with a wicked smile and said, “That could be true.” But you don’t bite, do you?
When kids, pets, barbers, and other people are around, life is full of surprises. These short stories make us chuckle about the strange and unexpected things that happen to us every day, like getting on the wrong train, saying something innocent at the dentist, or getting a free haircut.