After an interview with former hairdresser of 50 years, Cherine Hitchcock, and being made aware of a rather peculiar ongoing event in the hairdressing world, The Area News decided to investigate and learn just how widespread this story was.
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To refresh your memory, Mrs Hitchcock mentioned a number of phone calls she and her colleagues had received, over a period of a few years, where a man would phone in with an odd request.
According to hairdresser Georgia Burns of Individual Hair Care salon in Griffith, the request went something along the lines of:
“I have two daughters, they’re both lesbians and they like cropped haircuts, with a flat top.”
Perhaps he desired a military do because his daughters actually did want them, or perhaps he wanted to preserve their chastity. In either case, he never kept his appointment. In fact, of all the cases where this mystery man has phoned salons, he has never turned up for the appointment.
This has apparently been a nation-wide phenomenon with many in the industry questioning his motive. Some are reducing it to ‘time wasting’.
Ms Burns commented on the strange request, stating that she had heard of hairdressers in Adelaide and Tasmania who have received the same phone call.
The Area News contacted Hairdressers of Australia Facebook group, who reported phone calls at salons in Canberra and as far as Western Australia and Queensland.
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The Area News had initially imagined this to be a case spanning only over a few years, but after speaking with Fox & Co Hair Studio, we were shocked to discover that these phone calls have been occurring for over 12 years.
Hairdresser Sallee Sartor from Fox & Co Hair Studio described the mystery man as sounding middle-aged and Australian.
Ms Sartor also commented that she believed the man to be “someone local who knows someone in the hairdressing industry – you know, they’re just being a bit of a tool – and just ringing up and making these random appointments.”
Ms Sartor said that when she conveyed the story to Richard Brewer, a co-worker, he confirmed that it had happened a few weeks earlier.
“We started to work out that it was not just us,” Ms Sartor said.
“There was about at least half a dozen salons that had the same person ring up.”
The Area News also spoke with hairdresser Kristen Harris of Temple Hair Design in Albury, NSW.
“It was a really bizarre booking,” Ms Harris said.
“It’s not a regular phone call we get everyday.”
“He mentioned they were both lesbians, which doesn’t matter – we cut everyone’s hair.”
“He never showed.”
None can agree whether they believe the man to actually have teenage daughters, or if he had fabricated those details for whatever motive.
The one thing we can agree on is that this man is certainly committed to his prank.
Fox & Co Hair Studio had at one stage phoned the police regarding the matter after receiving repeat calls.
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