McCain and Mullets
Before we left for Chile on our ten week trip, I told a few people that if Obama didn’t win, and McCain was elected, we weren’t coming home. It may not have been 100% true, but I thought it was kind of funny and there was part of me that would start looking into Canada as an option should Obama not get the White House. However, the day before the election took place, as I walked around nervously, I realized that I really needed a hair cut.
Now, you have to understand that the Chilean Mullet is alive and well here in Santiago. It’s not quite the same as the American Mullet, which clearly has many incarnations. I would have to say that the Chilean Mullet is somewhat similar to the Baseball Mullet of the early 80s, it starts high on the back of the head, and is only slightly longer than the sides and top of the rest of the head. It’s a calmer, subtler mullet, but a mullet just the same.
With the haircut I had at the time, I was pretty sure there was no way I was walking out of that hair salon with anything but the Chilean Mullet, and decided going into it that I was fine with that. When you consider the fact that I can’t speak Spanish, and the guy cutting my hair couldn’t speak English, coupled with the fact that I hate telling people to alter the haircut they’re giving me if I see it going the wrong way, I left the salon with the only result possible, a Chilean Mullet.
Now, a big part of the reason I didn’t mind was that I figured this was my McCain Insurance Plan. That if McCain won the election, I would already be on my way to fitting into the Chilean lifestyle for the long term, haircut and all. As it turned out, my efforts were in vain, and Obama won the election. Now, I can return to the United States on December 12 as planned, and receive the laughs and jokes of my friends due to my ridiculous haircut. However, when I weigh in the options, I’ll take a bad haircut and being made fun of to four years avoiding the United States, and I’ll take Obama and my chant of Hope, even if it means I’m a goofy looking bastard. Call me a patriot if you must, but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
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its like a mohawk/mullet, like a mullawk, or a mohullet. subtler on both ends, though. please come back looking like this so i can analyze further.
tight hair, cru.
Jason,
I really like the mullet. I’ts classy like a 1974 Gran Torino. The trick with a mullet is you just have to own it, like it’s the coolest thing ever. (Personal experience)
Juany
Thats funny I found your post looking for countries to move to BECAUSE Hussein won! LOL! Too funny… It’s strange you would want to go to Chile… it is the most agressively modernizing capitalist country in the world today… which is the antithese of Hussein’s MASSIVE socialist agenda. Maybe Cuba would have been a more suitable place… that’s what the USSA will be like in 10 years… another 3d world shithole.