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He is still a little nervous but Dad and Mr. Domann tell stories about in "cowboy days" barbers were the doctors and dentists in the small towns and had to help people with all kinds of problems. Dad tells the men that during the summer both of them "go native" and let their hair grow as long as possible because "we're part Indian." Now that it's "back to school" time we had to get ready.
Dad says he won't get his hair cut until later because we had "things to do today." He agrees and says as mightily as possible that, "yeah, Dad doesn't have as much hair as me. He doesn't have any hair. So he can come back later."
The old men watching are all bald like Dad and laugh out loud.
Dad and the men watching start telling more stories about how not too long ago the cowboys and farmhands would come in but have to pay the barber for a bath before "getting in the Chair." Mr. Domann said that when he took over the old shop then located "across the street" old rusted tin tubs were still resting in the "backroom."
Dad tells a story about when he was growing up in LeRoy, Ks. and "became a hippie" and didn't want his hair cut anymore by his dad. He said he was tired of having a "three stooges hair cut" and looking like a guy called "Moe."
Dad said his dad chased him down in a car and dragged him to the barber back then when he was a kid. Mr. Domann chuckles quietly and says that he has had fathers do that with the "boys bawling" in his chair. Dad tells Mr. Domann that a barber is a "professional" and that it wasn't his fault the boys cried. Dad said the barber was just another "instrument in the father's hand" and it wasn't Mr. Domann's fault.
Dad later tells him that, "you can go to Mr. Domann's barber shop anytime." And he will go with him.
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