The narrator is sitting on a chair in front of a hairdresser, who is the first person he sees on the street. He tells the man that he's not impressed with the man's haircut, but that the man is "free-spirited tony" . The narrator says that he is actually bald, and that he used to be a comic artist, but he lost all of his hair when he started working as a hairdresser. He asks the man if he is losing his hair, and the man says that his colleagues are also losing theirs, but the narrator doesn't believe them. He says that one day he came across an editor with thick hair, so he asked his colleagues if they were the same as him, and they were all like him. He had a chip on his sherry on line, which was inspired by him. The man recognized him as a professional hairdresser, and gave him a bottle of tonic hair, which made him feel better.