WHEN THE MONKEY APPEARS SILK, OLD STAYS

 WHEN THE MONKEY APPEARS SILK, OLD STAYS.

  A few days ago was  opened a barbershop, not a "Coifer" where you go to make a haircut and salts with shaved eyebrows and even turquoise-painted feet, for yes, it was a real barbershop as God intended, with a old seat, a single mirror in front and smell of cologne water as in the time of my glorious youth.

  I had seen in Punta Shopping old and young Argentines with modern military haircuts, that is, shaved at the sides and with a "hopo" on the crown of their head and I thought: if those old men do it, why not me?

   I did not want to feel out of "wave." So I went to the new barber shop where a 36-year-old man, shaved and wearing a cap tied with a ribbon, dozed on a worn sofa.I told him what court I wanted me to do but he told me very discreetly that I was too old for that fashion of kids. Ahh, I was forgetting, in front of the store you could read a sign with the prices, not cheap, and also said with letters imitating a graffiti: Cut to "I degraded". It had to be in French, not pure pure but to have a foreign wave to see that they made modern cuts and all that mess.

  I told him that I wanted a "degradé", that I would try it, because I felt young even though my jowls were hanging down to my chest. At my insistence, the barber explained that he would not be so radical in the cut and that the "hopo" was not going to be so abundant.-I have an abundant and beautiful hair- the barber coaxed me- but many gray hairs ...
   -No matter. From here I do not leave without a degradation even if I have to "ingratiate myself" -I answered with irony.

  He started the haircut. Tufts of it fell through the layer. Goodbye my hair, without you, I would not have conquered so many girls and mature women in my second youth.

  The barber finished. It was not what I wanted, plus machine cut 0 on the sides and then go up the sides until the team marked 4. When finished he showed me round mirror the back of the card. I try my face satisfaction. I paid him the high sum and went out into the street.

 Nobody seemed to notice the change. Afterwards I reflected that a modern haircut did not make me younger, but it enhanced even more my voluminous face that tends to fall down and forward due to the laws of physics and the lack of elasticity of the skin.

  Good. MONKEY ALTHOUGH YOU CHANGE THE LOOK, OLD YOU WILL BE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.