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My barber of 12 years told me he'd been charging me $5 less than everyone else, and it got me thinking about advice
I've been going to the same barber shop over on Wyoming Ave for about 12 years now, and on Saturday the owner Ray told me he's been charging me $18 a cut while the sign says $23. He said he does it because I've been coming since before he bought the place and I never made a fuss when he had to close for two weeks after his knee surgery. That got me thinking about all the advice people hand out, like always ask for the discount or always shop around or always know your worth, and how none of it covers what happens when someone just quietly decides to be decent to you. I asked Ray why he never mentioned it and he said, "You don't tell a guy he's getting a deal, he'll start thinking he owes you something." I've been chewing on that all week, mostly because I've given plenty of advice in my life that was probably too loud and took up too much room. So now I'm wondering, what's the best piece of advice you ever got that nobody framed as advice at all? Like it just came out of a normal conversation and you didn't even know it stuck with you until years later?
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