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Dana Pico’s Long Overdue Haircut
Sorry, that is not a photo of Dana Pico’s new hairstyle.
In a synchronistic twist of fate, Dana Pico and myself found ourselves today at our respective hair stylists. After his appointment with his stylist, Dana found himself in a payment conundrum:
Well, after getting a decent cut from the absolutely babelicious stylist there — early twenties, blonde, with nice cleavage — I went to pay, and she asked me for my last name. “You don’t need my last name,” I replied.
“But I can’t process your payment without it.”
Fortunately, the manager was right there, and showed her how to do it, because she was clearly flustered that I’d refuse such a simple request. I suppose that I could have said my last name was Hitchcock or something, just like I could respond “12345″ every time they ask me at Home Despot for my zip code, but no, I refuse to do that; I want to make a point that my name or my zip code is not necessary for them to cut my hair or sell me some lumber.
Oh my. My first thought is Dana must change his hair stylist. At my hair salon, customers are addressed by first name only and there is no need for further identification. The stylists are hair artists, I highly recommend them to my good blogging friend, Dana Pico.
As for Home Depot and Lowes, I make it a game to use a different Zip code with each purchase. I know the information is being used by their corporate headquarters to better customize their marketing programs for each store (data mining) and I don’t feel inclined to help their marketing schemes.
They had my first name, because there’s a sign-in sheet, and if they could actually read my writing, it was there.
As for a stylist, well, I don’t give them a whole lot with which to work. But your pic looks great!
It’s a wonder that they didn’t ask for your email address and telephone number. I don’t really think that we need all that profiling information but this has been happening for a long time now. Years ago I told both my sister and Mother NOT to give anyone their email address.