You know you're going to have a bad hair day, or month, when your hair stylist yells "Oh NO!" when cutting your hair.

I've been using the same person for several years now and haven't had any problems. To protect the innocent all names have been changed. For example, "Melissa" has been changed to "My Rotten Wife."

My Rotten Wife began cutting my hair as usual, with the clippers on the back of my head. We have one of those clipper kits with several different attachments to obtain the desired hair length. My hair is pretty easy; she uses one attachment for the back and sides and another for the top. Switching attachments, she begins on the top of my head. She's completed two strokes down the center when she says those fateful words:

"Your hair must have grown a lot since last time. I'm taking off a whole lot more OH NO!"

Yes, My Rotten Wife grabbed the wrong attachment and cut my hair just a wee bit shorter than normal. Actually, a lot shorter.

After taking several pictures of my reverse-Mohawk My Rotten Wife cut the rest to a matching length. Still, it feels very strange to have such short hair. Not that my hair was ever very long (OK, it was in the 1980s but EVERYONE had long hair then!) but it's almost half the length it normally is. Oh well.

I offered to cut her hair but for some reason she refused.

And if anyone is really wondering: No, I'm not mad at my wife. We laughed about this for quite some time. And no, you won't see the pictures posted here.