Harry’s Haircut

“What happened to you?” Mary asked in alarm.
“I cut my hair.” Harry replied. “Don’t I look neat?”
“Shaggy at best, like a tornado struck the farm.”
“Saved you some bucks and that can’t be beat.”

“But you have tufts sticking out and bald patches there.”
“Your scissors are dull, it couldn’t be helped.”
“You’ve got hair down your shirt, and hair everywhere.
“So tell me my dear, is that why you yelped?”

“Well it tickled my ears and itchied my neck.”
“I see,” Mary replied, “so you scalped yourself.”
“Yes but now I look neat so whatever the heck?”
“I suppose it’ll grow back, so suit yourself.”

Gasp

Well no wonder Mary was shocked.

Harry had been looking very shaggy of late and Mary had tried repeatedly to get him to the barber’s. But Harry had objected. Except once. Harry actually consented to go but when he saw the barbers all in a row with their scissors and buzzing clippers attacking their victims who were all shrouded in white sacrificial capes, their heads bowed in desperate prayer, he recoiled, and fled.

Harry, however, was indeed feeling shaggy. Very shaggy.

So he went a-wandering while Mary snoozed in her easy chair, exhausted from bailing him out of trouble as he went from spilling the coffee because he thought the coffee jar was the jam jar as he tried to make himself a sandwich, to missing the toilet as he tried to sit and landing on the floor, wedged between toilet and tub.

Mary eventually got Harry settled down, and he consented to lie down. Once he was asleep, she sagged into her easy chair.

She woke up when Harry bumped into a chair that knocked against the table. It took a moment to focus.

  Harry’s haircut looked something like this.

Then the gasp.

Harry’s self-inflicted haircut was indeed horrible.

But, in the end, Mary concluded: What should an Alzheimer’s partner care what she looks like, as long as she’s there to be looked at?

And Mary wanted Harry there to look at too, for a very long time. After all, hair really does grow back.

Well, for most people, anyway.

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