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I always feel awkward when I'm getting my hair cut because I never know how much talking I'm meant to be doing. The young girl who washes the hairs generally starts off with 'Going anywhere tonight?' (I usually get my hair cut on Saturdays) and progresses to 'You getting away this year?'. The answer to both questions is usually 'No', after which we have to fall back on the weather and 'You want conditioner?'

The woman who does the actual cutting doesn't do the patter, and stops after 'How much do you want off?' Now it's rather restful to sit in silence while someone messes around with your hair, but I can't help feeling that perhaps I'm not doing what is expected of me. She does seem to talk to other customers, and my mother takes hours to go to the hairdresser because of the chat and gets an enormous discount, apparently on the basis of having been to the same hairdresser for thirty years. Now her hairdresser is closing, and she's going to come to mine and discover how I am the fail at hairdressing etiquette. She'll know more about the place in one haircut than I know after two years.

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[aquarius-1977.livejournal.com]

It's very possible, especially if she's been doing this a long time. She might be that good at reading people to have perceived that about you.