Daily Ambivalence - bereavement salons

It really feels great when people run their fingers through your hair.

I was trying to think of ways to make money the other day and the idea of bereavement salons popped into my head.

Of course, there are places today where people run their fingers through your hair. But those folks usually do it when they are cutting your hair.

The way I see it, at a bereavement salon it would just be people running their fingers through your hair.

Did you get some bad news today? Your cousin Jeremy only have a month to live? Did you recently bury your cat Boris in the backyard? No problem. Come to one of my bereavement salons and an employee will run his or her fingers through your hair.

It would be easy to own a bereavement salon. None of the employees would need special training. Working at a bereavement salon wouldn't be like cutting hair or owning a landscaping company. No schooling needed at all. Owning a bereavement salon would almost be like printing money.

Only money can't buy you happiness.

If the fact that money can't buy you happiness bums you out, come to one of my bereavement salons.

Bereavement salons . . . eh.