Alec The Hack

 

Even if I had hair - I prefer being a skin head. But when I was a kid Alec The Hack was my barber. I wasn’t concerned with fashion at all so I didn’t care what he did. I’d give him his money and ask him for something that’d make my mom happy but not get me beat up by the big kids at school. If I was lucky the lineup of customers would be long and I’d look at the skin mags he left out for the adult customers. One day mom was passing by the shop and looked to see me reading a playboy or a Penthouse… and she came right in the shop and gave us both supreme shit and stormed out with me in tow. And that was that for the porn mags in Alec’s barber shop. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is a capital offence and I got beaten up for a couple weeks straight by the angry boys that were also victims of The Hack. After that it was sports illustrated, maybe some hot rod or fishin’ mags and that’s it. My brother even beat me up and gave me a haircut of his own that was so bad that Dad had to get out the clippers and take it right down to the wood so that at would grow back even. 

I haven’t been in a barber shop for at least 30 years. I bought some good clippers, and a Bic … and I’m good. I wonder if they even have barbershops that are spaces for men anymore?