infidelity

people who cheat will always be caught. and i got caught. it was written all over me. no matter how hard i tried to hide it, everyone could see what i did, plain as day.

i've been going to the same beauty parlor (parlor, not salon) for the past 10 years and connie has been cutting my hair these 10 years. when connie went on a long leave because she was pregnant, my hair grew to scary proportions. when i moved to bontoc for one year, i only got to get my hair cut one time that year. when i went through that shaved-head period of my life, connie and the rest of the beauty parlor people were very loving and supportive and understood why i had to do it, no questions asked.

then i cheated on them.

i was having a bad time with my life three weeks ago and i really needed to get a haircut to bring a bit of sanity back into my life. it was a monday and i knew it was connie's day off but i knew i had to cut my hair or i will die. so i went to another salon where i didn't know a soul and had them take off a good two inches off my hair.

and i looked mutt ugly.
mutt ugly.
which is uglier than butt ugly.
butt ugly would have been acceptable.
mutt ugly caused people at work to look at me five seconds longer than was polite and give me a look that said "i understand, you're having a difficult life and we understand why you want to uglify yourself like that."

so over the weekend, i went back to my beauty parlor because i couldn't bear to live another day looking mutt ugly. connie , bless her forgiving heart, took one look at my hair, gave a bit of a shrug and confronted me with the accusing query "nagpagupit ka sa iba, no?" i couldn't deny it, the stupid rotten-mushroom shape my hair had taken was a dead giveaway. so i meekly admitted my infidelity and promised to never, never let anyone else touch my hair again.

pacified with my pathetic reply to her question, connie proceeded to make me look slightly fabulous again, and to make me feel doubly guilty for cheating on her, she shaved and shaped my eyebrows for free.

moral of the story -- no matter how bad life gets, never cheat on the person who cuts your hair. you know you can never get away with it.