8/13/2019 Dialogue in a Hairdresser
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CONVERSATION with a hairdresser
Her: Hello, would you like some tea?Me: No thanks, I'm okHer:
Please come this way to have your hair washedMe: Ok sure.Her: Is
the temperature ok?Me: es, thank youHer: !ould you like conditioner
in your hair?Me: es, thank you.
some time goes byHer: Please sit up so that I can dry your
hair
Me: sit up so that she can dry hairHer: Please come over here
and have a seat
Me: go over there and have a seat with lots of big layers of
plastic all over me '"hankyou'Her: #oooo, what can we do with your
hair today?Me: !ell, can you please cut it so that it is short on
the one side and lon$ on the
other. (show picture from magazine)Her: Glances furtively at
picture and moves hair around in different directions and
says ' !hen last did you $et your hair cut?'Me: %&out months
a$o.Her: Have you &een here &e(ore?Me: No, I havent,
actually.Her: !hich way does your partin$ usually $o?
Me: "his way (point)Her: our hair is very dry, should we take
hal( an inch o((?Me: !ell, please can you take a&out an inch
o(( on the one sid. %s its so dry, anda&out ) inches o(( on the
other side, similar to the picture and please can you makesure its
*uite sort o( messy
Her: #o you don+t want it to &e too styalised?Me: No, not
really, thanks.Her: ok, are you sure you wouldn+t like some tea?Me:
no, I'm ok thanksHer: would you like a ma$aine to read?Me: no,
thanks.Her: $ets scissors and cuts hair (or a&out - minutes and
says ' where are you (rom?'Me: I'm (rom #outh %(rica, where are you
(rom?Her: I'm (rom /n$land.Me: !here in /n$land are you (rom
ori$inally?Her: well, I'm (rom 0oventry in the midlandsMe: 0oventry
is a &eauti(ul town, do you $o home much?
Her: #ometimes. I'm $oin$ home (or christmas. How lon$ have you
&een here?Me: a&out 1 yearsHer: !ill you $o &ack one
day?Me: no, I love /n$landHer: es, there are a lot o( #outh
%(ricans here. I worked with a #outh %(rican in mylast 2o&.Hair
dresser picks up mirror and shows hair at the &ack and says:
'have you thou$hto( $ettin$ hi$hli$hts?'Me: yes I did once, &ut
my hair is $oin$ $rey so i dye my hair.Her: oh yes, I can see you
do it yoursel(Me: 3a, I doHer: "here we $oooowww, how does that
look?
Me: that's nice, thankyou.Her: ru((les hair and says: ' all you
need to do is put some $el in your hair in themornin$'
