Too funny and sad for words...

So I have couple of funny/sad stories that happened to me at the salon this week. First of all, I have to give a background story. In January, there was a man who came in for a hair cut. I was the lucky stylist, and went to get him. The man had a scratched face, some of the cuts looked infected, and then he says he needs me to fix a bad haircut. Trying not to stare at him and make him more self conscious, I ask a few questions. This is what I found out. His wife made fun of him for going to a cheap place like Smart Styles, and so he decided to get an appointment at the high end salon she goes to. He ends up getting the wife of a coworker, and she, for some stupid reason, brings the clippers with a #2 guard (almost to the scalp) to the top of his head, and leaves the other side long. Hard to explain, I know but WOW! He said he paid $25 for a clown hair cut, and he had a business conference in California the following week.
K-a little bit stressful considering the situation! So I start blending in the sides and top while he tells me the rest of the story. A few days previously, he is at Smiths down in Woods Cross. He is in the parking lot and sees a woman beating her son to a bloody pulp! He yells at a distance to stop, but she ignores him. After trying a few more times, he decides to make his way to her, not knowing what else to do, but to help this poor kid. He touches her shoulder and wam, she turn on him and claws his face! Meanwhile, a lady is just observing them at a distance, and he yells to call 911. Long story short, his week has literally been from Hell! But he still seems in good spirits and can laugh about it. Even a customer who was getting a haircut at the same time, asked him to repeat the story to her husband. He good naturedly did. So, I do, what I think is an amazing job and joke around about having a permanent customer! and wish him good luck in Cali!
So Wednesday, this same man walks in! I express my delight in seeing him and tell him how great he looks! His face is fully healed with a few scars. The top of his hair has finally grown out to what he wants, but needs it shaped, and the sides shorter. So I am catching up on how his trip was to Cali, and he says he has been to New York, Tennessee, and Philadelphia since then! Wow! So then I ask him since he is gone all of the time, did he get to take his family or at least his wife? His comment was, "I would have loved to take my wife, but a week after you saw me, she filed for a divorce." !?!?! OH my!! I couldn't believe it! This poor guy, who already was having a horrible week, had this happen to him. Now granted, I had only met him twice, and for a few minutes at that, but he was such a nice guy! And upbeat about everything! He even said he was living in a motor home now, and was liking it! I couldn't believe it! I thought wow, how could life get much worse for this guy? And then I thought, wow, I have everything so good. So I said a quick prayer of gratitude for my blessings, and then one for him, that his life would start looking up.
On a lighter note, a funny story! The same day, I am cutting this guy's hair, who is superly cute, and he knows it. So I chitchat away with him, style his hair, and of coarse, he needs to rearrange every hair a little differently to be just perfect. I offer for him to use our sink where we wash their hair. I turn to get some hand soap and splash, my butt is soaking wet!! And I think he was shocked because it took him a while to turn it off. I shout, "What, is it the hair cut? You could have just told me!" Ha! It was so funny! He was so embarrassed, so I of coarse tell him not to worry about it, that I did that to my first haircut and got her good! It was just funny how cool and controlled he was before, and then how embarrassed he was. He even gave me a $8 tip! Heck, he can get me wet anytime, if I always got that kind of a tip!?!