Amatuer Hour on TV

If you happened to have seen someone this morning on an Atlanta tv station that looked like me talking on a cell phone, it was indeed yours truly. The place that I go to for haircuts had called and asked if I wanted to help them out. A morning tv show was going to be doing liveshots from there this a.m. and if I came I could get a free haircut. I needed a haircut and agreed.

I have blogged about how I love this place. It is a men only spa/salon/barbershop. It is barely more than the national discount hair cutting chains that are located in every other strip mall in America. For $25 you get a good haircut, a beverage, they wash your hair, massage your shoulders and neck, and wrap a hot towel around your face. They also have massages, manicures, straight edge razor shaves, and shoe shines available.

So they were open early today to have this free advertising as Father's Day gift ideas. They had hired a "PR Expert" to speak on their behalf and help drum up sales I guess. It would have went much better if they had used the owner instead of this idiot "Expert." One of the two longest live shots the roving reporter guy approches the "expert" who is sitting in a barber chair. She stupidly didnt know that they were at that very moment live on the air. He asked her what a woman was doing at a man's salon and she said that she was primping for his "stupid show" and had been waiting on him for an hour and a half to talk to her. He tried to laugh it off and asked if she knew that they were on live TV? She replied she didnt. Again he tried to assist her out by asking what kind of services they offer here as opposed to a neighborhood barbershop and she replied that wasnt the way the reporter was supposed to ask the question. They sent it back to the anchors in the studio who were laughing at this expert idiot. They gave her another chance later on but the damage was already done. The place received a few phone calls from viewers who said that they wouldnt come after that performance.

I hate it for them. To help them out, I'll post a link to their website later this evening. I really love this place and highly recommend it.