Hey brothers! It's time for something new.....I was talking to another fellow barber the other day, and I was shocked on his opinion of beauticians. Being that when  I came into this thing,it was a good thing to be able to connect with the ladies in the neighborhood salon. I remember different than he does,so I assumed that his position on the sisters would probably be simular to mine.....NOPE!!! When I asked him why, he could only say; "It's day-time stories and blah,blah,blah all day.... I can't take being in the salon all day like that." My experience was different. I had worked in a salon as the sole barber before opening up my own shop,and the experience was a very enlightening one. There were things that they kept me abreast of in their world, and there were things I kept them up on. I had to ask him; "Don't those same type of things happen in a barbershop?" to my surprise he said,"Nah, not on that level, man. We don't do it like that!" Hah! I like to believe that in some places it's just the same and that's pretty sterotypical due to the fact that I found that women actually gossip openly LESS than men do in the salon. I found when I left to work with the ladies, there was actually less babble and more work.....My own observation was that the ladies were so busy with wash & sets, perms, and braiding , that time was MONEY.It was really cool for me. Plus being the only male there was like living your own little private fantasy with just YOU and a bevy of beauties on your own little island.....(smile!) I say we're no different in behavior; Days Of Our Lives is substituted with ESPN ; and how many times did you and a bunch of the fellas babbled on about this and that?( "Did you see so-and-so's new video?" sound familiar fellas?)I think great things will happen if we look past the typical stereotypical b.s and really start networking.