‘Dirty Jobs’ Host Mike Rowe Walks Into Barbershop for Haircut, What the Stylist Did Left Him Smiling

When Mike Rowe needed a haircut, he made a leap across the generation gap that left him and the stylist happy. Rowe related the incident on his Facebook page on May 20, explaining that while he was in Charlotte, North…

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“‘Oh good,’ she said. ‘I love a challenge,’” he posted.

Hagaman — who said she recognized Rowe but still needed to confirm it was him — said her father watched Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs.”

“Then I asked her about her job, and if she liked it,” he posted.

Rowe learned that she had three jobs — the one she was working at the moment, another salon gig and a position as a hostess in an Italian restaurant.

“Well, technically I’m the hostess, but really, I do whatever needs doing. Mostly, I deal with customers who, you know, need to be dealt with,” he quoted her as saying.

Rowe posted that he asked her: “Do you use the scissors on them, too?”

Her reply: “I am often tempted.”

When she was done and Rowe saw the hair on the floor, he said, “I thought about asking if she could put some back, but she was still armed with the scissors, so I said, ‘It’s exactly what I needed.'”

“Because it was. It was a great cut at a fair price in a barbershop that serves cold beer, made even better by a sparkling conversation on a hot day with a 26-year-old woman who works three jobs,” he wrote.

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He said anyone who patronizes where she works should “ask for Allyssa, and tell her I said hello. She’s the one with the scissors.”

Hagaman said cutting Rowe’s hair was easy because he “was like talking with an old friend.”

“He’s a very kindly man,” she said.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.