Update:

I’m going back into the salon on a day when my last cutter won’t be there, and they’ll see if another stylist can “fix it“.

Which — unless they can grow hair back — isn’t really likely. But I guess I should give it a shot, mmm? At least I can say I tried. They were kind and polite and thoughtful about it, if not guarded (which is in their interests, even if the customer is always right.)

And yes, I know it seems silly to be concerned about something like hair (It’ll grow back!), and it’s not like they shaved my head, but I’m into actually getting what I want when I pay for something — and not a SuperCuts price, at that! I don’t have money to throw at things that don’t work for me at all, and since I don’t live on credit, I tend to want my money’s worth… well…. now.

It’s the principle of the thing, you know?

Most of my friends will be shocked to read this since I am a) a pathological overtipper, even in the face of bad service; b) unlikely to take things back because I feel like it’s my fault they don’t fit properly.

Silly.

But there’s a first time for everything. And since I’ve got long distance bills to pay off and plane tickets to buy, now seems like a good time to start, huh?

(The best part of the whole experience thus far? The hold music at the salon was “Runaround”. Ha!)

Have you ever returned something or asked to have a service performed again when it didn’t go well for you?

Tell me how it went…