During a haircut, the conversation with my hairdresser stops for a while. Subconsciously we both listen to the conversation of the only other customer and his hairdresser. At the insistence of his hairdresser, the customer has just explained in detail what kind of work he does, after which the conversation falls silent, just like ours. Not happy for long, because then the customer asks: “And you, what are you doing?”
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of November 18, 2021
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