"Getting One's Ears Lowered"

[+ Avalon]

I thought everyone knew that expression meaning to get a haircut but I was watching the recent episode of "The Neighborhood" and some didn't.

[+ sync]

Maybe it's a generational thing. I remember it from a looooong time ago.

[+ Avalon]

Maybe it's a generational thing. I remember it from a looooong time ago.

 

I remember going to the barber shop with my dad when I was a boy. They also shined shoes.

[MikeBiDude]

I remember going to the barber shop with my dad when I was a boy. They also shined shoes.

I shined shoes at a barber shop for a few weeks one summer when I was 6-7 years old. 10¢

[Rudynate]

I thought everyone knew that expression meaning to get a haircut but I was watching the recent episode of "The Neighborhood" and some didn't.

 

I can't remember the last time I heard it. Its not surprising that some wouldn't recognize it. Also, it was only used by a certain type of guy. I never once heard my father say it.

[+ Avalon]

I can't remember the last time I heard it. Its not surprising that some wouldn't recognize it. Also, it was only used by a certain type of guy. I never once heard my father say it.

 

My father used that expression; that's where I learned it.

[Rudynate]

I loved to go to the barbershop with my father. The barbershop charged more for kids on Saturday. So he would wake me up early on a weekday, we would go to a diner for coffee (cocoa for me) and doughnuts, then to the barbershop. The shop was owned by a good-looking Italian guy named Carl and he had his equally sexy younger brothers, Tony and Sammy working there too. I had little-boy crushes on all three of them. Sometimes we were the first customers. The men would all sit there smoking and chatting while I got my hair cut.

 

It's a very fond memory.

[+ Avalon]

I loved to go to the barbershop with my father. The barbershop charged more for kids on Saturday. So he would wake me up early on a weekday, we would go to a diner for coffee (cocoa for me) and doughnuts, then to the barbershop. The shop was owned by a good-looking Italian guy named Carl and he had his equally sexy younger brothers, Tony and Sammy working there too. I had little-boy crushes on all three of them. Sometimes we were the first customers. The men would all sit there smoking and chatting while I got my hair cut.

 

It's a very fond memory.

 

Thank-you for sharing that memory.

[+ SirBillybob]

My father used that expression; that's where I learned it.

 

Me too, exactly. My father, born 1915, an Anglo Quebecois.

 

Optically, one's ears looked bigger and positioned lower on one's head following a fresh classic fade cut.

 

Sadly, the illusion sometimes fails to deliver, re: longer member following a crotch trim.

[+ Avalon]

As an aside in grade school there was a boy who only had one ear. There was a hole on the side of his head where the ear would be. And his hair was cut like a normal haircut back then. The hair was trimmed around the hole like if there had been an ear.

[+ SirBillybob]

Apart from crouching and kneeling worshipfully, thereby lowering my ears, if the aforementioned anomaly were mine I could think of ways to capitalize on it.