每天读一篇英语小故事：A Haircut

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　　It was time for a haircut. Lenny didn’t even have to look in the mirror.
Even though he was going bald, he knew that he needed to cut his hair every two
weeks.
        　　He had a "tongue" of hair on the top of his head. His hair was thinning at
the crown. He still had plenty of hair on the sides and back. It was what they
call "salt and pepper," a mixture of gray hair and dark brown hair. It was only
a few years, he figured, until the salt and pepper became just salt.
        　　He never let his hair grow for more than two weeks. The longer it got, the
worse it looked, he thought.
        　　He spread a newspaper over the bathroom sink so that no hair went down the
drain. He plugged in the clippers and started cutting his hair. He started at
the back of his head, went to the sides, and finished on the top. Every minute
or so, he had to clean the hair out of the blades with an old toothbrush.
        　　Finished, he picked up a hand mirror to check out the back of his head.
Everything looked okay. He carried the newspaper back out to the kitchen and
shook the hair clippings into the trash can.
        　　Then he took a shower.