As I was walking from my parked van in the back of our building after a PO/bank/Staples/Target run, Howard the Barber walked across Broadview Avenue to me from the Chase Bank parking lot. After initial greetings, I asked him if the scaffolding of the Stucco-Men encasing our store and taking three parking spaces to do it were bothering his business.
"Who knows?" the pessimistic barber shrugged. "It can't be helping either of us, but we got through much worse last year during the Walgreen's construction." He added, "Looks like they have your side door blocked today.
I nodded and said, "It most interferes with people trying to bring boxes of books in to sell. The books have to be lugged around to the front, and there's scaffolding there, too."
Howard gestured toward the back of the bookstore -- which is next to his shop as can be seen in the photo -- and said, "Too bad you can't just knock a whole in the wall so you have a back door like the rest of us in the building."
"The landlord told me they'd do it for $4-500."
"Whoa," he said, pulling back his head at the price.
"Tell you what; I'll let them go through the barbershop for just 50 cents!"
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