My haircut is easy. Just a #3 clipper on the sides, top as short as you can get with scissors. Really hard to screw up. So I don't mind going to new barbers, and when my regular was closed unexpectedly this seemed like a geographically conveinent substitute. I was wrong.
First he goes into a tirade about how "3" isn't the same everywhere and some other customers complain and do I really mean 3. A #3 clipper is 3/8 of an inch. It's an industry standard. It's the same everywhere. So right off the bat he doesn't know what he's talking about and I'm worried.
Then the guy seems to think the sides end somewhere mid ear, height wise. He basically only uses the clippers on my sideburns and then acts confused when I try to explain what any other barber would have done with the same instructions. The whole time he's jabbing my head with the clippers and comb, like he's trying to knock the hair off by brute force. Manages to miss almost all the hair with the scissors, frantically snipping the tiniest bits of hair while making weird grunts. Takes almost nothing off despite the words "as short as you can get."
At the end he goes in close with the scissors ungaurded for what was probably an attempt to thin, but ends up catching wide clumps. Patchy, uneven, and looks less well kept than before the cut. Told him to stop when I realized he was doign more harm then good. Worst haircut I've ever had in New York, and twice as expensive as I usually pay for a simple men's cut. $38. I'm probably going to just get it buzzed in a couple days if I can't find a decent way to comb it.
Never again.