Tuesday, March 25, 2003.
Now playing:
Tao Feng (Xbox),
and
Aliens vs. Predator 2 (older but awesome PC game).
HAIR OF THE TIGER
Amy's family and the people at our church keep telling us we should shave Sun Su's sweet head. It's some sort of Corean tradition to shave all the baby's hair off in order for it to grow back more even and nicer. Plus, Sun Su has been due for a haircut. He's starting to look like a little fat man with a seriously desperate combover thing going on.
If we were the kind of people who practiced non-physical child abuse, we could braid the back of his hair into one of those tails you often see at country music concerts and wrestling events. One of Amy's cousins did this to her child. It makes me cry.
We took him to our usual hair cut lady. She is a kindly older woman who's husband died of severe pneumonia in our hospital a few years back when Amy was still a Medical ICU nurse. We originally met her years before that one night while I was scrambling to get my hair cut for an interview the next day. I hesitate to say that I may be one of her only male customers. She's always been delighted to see us.
Sun Su knew something was up when we took him to get his haircut. I don't think he liked the idea of that old woman getting too close to him with those scissors. He looked a bit concerned.
I like the haircut lady but at one point she said (note: this occurred a week before our War on Iraq started),
"Can you believe what Corea is doing?"
I didn't want to get into it with her. First, when talking about politics (and who to bomb) it is important to distinguish between North and South Corea. Second, I recognized the tone of her question, and I felt it was inappropriate to bring up with us and our baby there. Especially since there was a greater than fifty percent chance I was going to seriously disagree with her considering she was going in that "we should bomb them first/next" direction. I love our country and I support our courageous troops (how can you not when you see what they are going through now), but only in America is the question of war not just "yes or no," but rather, multiple choice.
I started fussing with Sun Su and replied,
"Uh oh, Sun Su's getting cranky."
Every politician should carry around a baby for situations like that.
(Here we see Sun Su sulking and plotting while chewing on his pacifier like a pit bull on a bone.)
Despite averting a potential political disaster, the haircut didn't quite go as planned though. After cutting a few loose locks, the hair stylist said that was enough for today, which shocked us. We were expecting to leave with a traditionally bald monk-like baby, all ready to sign up for the Shaolin soccer team. But the hair lady would have nothing of it. She said she would cut his hair in stages so as not to scare him.
Scare him? Lest I remind her that Sun Su means "champion" and that he had the blood of the stalwart bear and spirit of the fearless tiger in him, with a few drops of some pissed off Scottish dog in there as well. Just look in his eyes, you can see it. No, really.
"We don't want him to think this is a doctor's office."
Oh no you did not just say that, old woman.
She didn't charge us for the few hairs she cut this time, and she was just thinking of the baby, but we were still taken aback. Corean babies get this done all the time, by tradition even, and yet she insisted her way was "the best."
We didn't say anything after our initial surprise, but Amy and I decided we'd try getting Sun Su's traditional baby haircut at a Corean hair salon next time.
At least they'll understand what's at stake here.
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