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This morning I attended my usual breakfast with some friends. We were talking about a visit to the barber (salon if you’re a woman or Nancy Pelosi).

At any rate, I related a story about growing up in Brooklyn and the fact that my dad liked to go to a local barber college to get his hair cut at a discount. While the full price of a haircut at the local barbershop at that time was $1, at the barber college it was $0.75. (and the fact of the matter was when my dad returned from his haircut – it looked like a $0.75 haircut!).

Yesterday, I visited my local barbershop – where the full price...