"A little off the top, please."

It's fast become an ongoing in-joke with my brutish Greek barber. He absentmindedly nods before I suddenly feel one of his arms encircle my forehead, the other tightens around my neck. What the?! Could it be? Is my barber putting me in a sleeper hold?? But wh.... zzzzzzzzzz.

As the barber shop dims I swear that I hear an adolescent child's voice behind my ear whisper, "Grab me that straight razor, Dad."

When Sampson had his hair chopped off by that foul temptress in the bible he only lost his strength, got captured by the Philistines, and had his eyes gouged out. When Pizza Diarist gets his hair chopped off by his masochistic Greek barber, he loses his self esteem, gets ridiculed by his friends, and goes into hiding.