コロナウイルス蔓延防止のため、人と接触する全ての職業がしばらくの間停止となっていました。ここオランダでは約２ヶ月くらい続いたかな。5月11日からこれらの職も仕事再開ができるようになりましたよ。この人と接触する職業の一つが美容院。通常は美容院が自分たちの生活に欠かせないものだと感じている人って少ないかと思いますが、いざ行けなくなってしまうと、その重要さに気がつくってもんです。特に私のような自分では怖くて自分や、子供たちの髪を切ることができないものにとってはね。
Due to the Corona virus pandemic, all businesses involving human contact needed to be closed for a while. This lasted for about 2 months in the Netherlands. From 11 May, they could re-start their business again. Among the businesses with human contact are hair dressers. Nobody normally thinks of them as really crucial to our life. But once you cannot go there, you realize that they are quite important, especially to people like me, who are not confident enough to cut our own and our children's hair by ourself.
ということで、我ら美容院の再開を首を長ーくして待っておりました。営業再開から1週間後の数日前、私と子供たちはようやく念願の散髪へ。サイコー！
We were waiting for their re-open. After 1 week from their re-open, children and I went to the hair dresser and finallly got our hair cut. How nice!
しかしこの美容院の再開を待てなかった方もここに。。。Dropさんです。彼は長くなってくる髪の毛に耐えられず、ある日断髪式を行ったのです。
But there is a person who couldn't wait for re-opening of the hair dresser. That is Drop. He was so annoyed by his hair and one day he suddenly started his hair cutting ceremony.
この断髪式に使ったのは付属でついてきたトリミングのパーツを取り付けた電気髭剃り。ま、髪の毛もどのみち薄くなってきているし、ということで、自分で髪の毛を短く刈ってしまおうと決めたわけであります。
The tool he used was his electric shaver with trimmer attachment. He is anyway getting bald on various parts of his head. He decided to shave all his hair off by himself.
結果はこちら。刈ってみると結構な量の髪の毛！と結構なハゲ部分！最初はなんだか変だなーと思っていた私ですが、1日後にはすっかり見慣れてこんなもんか思うようになりましたわ。最終的には悪い決断ではなかったのかも。本人もすごく気に入ってみるみたいですしね。
This is the result. Quite a lot of hair! And quite a big bald patch! He looked a bit strange in the beginning for me but after one day, I got used to how he looks and in the end, it was not such a bad idea. He likes it very much as well.
Dropの断髪式の数日後、会社にいるとそれまで在宅勤務でしばらく見なかった同僚（男性）が二人会社に来ていました。二人ともDropと一緒で、さっぱりと髪の毛を刈り上げておりましたよ！男性って長髪に耐えられないし待てないんですな・・・。
A few days after his ceremony, when I was in the office, two colleagues (men) who have been working at home came to the office as well. Both colleagues had also shaved their hair off! Some men really cannot stand long hair and also, they have no patience.
このパンデミックが治まる頃には自前の坊主頭の人だらけになってるのかも。。
Maybe by the end of this pandemic, there will be many homemade supershort haircuts around....