Something for the weekend, sir?

Continuing the theme of barber conversations (see 21 June), my first haircut in China was limited to two sentences, both equally prosaic but fairly essential: Wo yao li fa ("I want a haircut") and Duan y dianr ("Just a trim please"). I also tried the impossibly advanced Wo bu xu yao xifou fa ("I don't need it washed") but it came out wrong and met with what-the-hell-is-he-on-about faces. So I just edged away from the basin and that did the trick. Good cut though.