Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS WRITER.
The man was going to a Turkish barber in a nondescript northern German town. He had heard that in this establishment, he could get all of his hair needs met, right down to his nasal hair, and cheap at that. Not that he particularly wanted his nasal hair messed with. As he was about to enter the place he, literally, ran into an expensively dressed young woman who was so intensely staring at her mobile phone that she paid scant attention to either him, or the uneven footpath, partly covered in dirty, icy snow. The action of the physical meeting of the two bodies caused the aforementioned phone to fly out of her hand and into a pile of less dirty, but no less icy snow, now on the side of the footpath. Unfortunately, both parties dived for the phone at the same time; the young man out of an apologetic attempt at recovering the situation, and the young woman in an attempt to quickly regain her most important possession, and this resulted in their crashing heads and her falling awkwardly to the ground. In this she was aided by the overly high, spindly heels of her rather white boots.
Every day she tried to talk herself out of wearing these boots, and into something more practical. But as a result of the most uncomfortable and embarrassing situation she currently found herself in, she felt that something more than her head had been knocked. She sat there for a while, no longer trying to reach for her phone, and looked at her shoes- those white boots she was wearing. One day, actually, today, this had to stop. Gingerly she reached down and slowly unzipped each boot. Whilst the young man fussed around, talking rapidly and generally trying to help, she slowly pulled off the boots, and let her feet out into the cold. She slowly wriggled her toes. The young man’s frantic attempts to talk to her made little effect, as they didn’t have his language in common. Still dazed, and in English, she looked up and asked him if he knew where in this town she could find a sensible pair of shoes. And thus, the man never discovered the potential joys of a Turkish barber.