A Fifty Dollar Haircut

Each year around this time the Leukaemia Foundation organise the Shaveforacure fundraiser. King O'Malley's Bar in Canberra City are one of the big supporters of this event and many a brave soul sits down to have their head shaved. As King O'Malley's is also the venue for, and sponsor of, Street Chess, the Street Chess crowd decided to a throw a little money into the pot.
The deal was that if they could scrape together $50 I would get my head shaved. As a testament to the players generosity, or because they just don't like me, the $50 was soon collected. Of course there were a couple of players who were never going to part with any money, even for charity, but what would the stereotype of chess players being incredibly selfish be without a few players being incredibly selfish.
Attempts to negotiate a generous No.2 shave were unsuccessful, and soon the trimmer went to work. Despite the fact that the person wielding the weapon of "thatch destruction" wasn't a hairdresserer, but instead one of the bar staff, the finished product wasn't that bad.
So hopefully the Canberra winter will not be too cold, and I can wait 6 months before I need another haircut.