Dial - Season 1 - Episode 52

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 52

Life was looking up, and I was beginning to get happy again…until I went for a haircut.


My barber sat me down, covered me with the large silky barber’s apron, and then he picked up a comb and began running it through my hair. This man had been my barber for many years. My father had introduced me to him, and he had cut my father’s hair till he died.

“Ei, Mr. Biko, na worry you worry wey your grey hairs dey come na so?” he asked with concern. “Abeg, make you no worry o! Ah, even your father wey e grow like that no get grey hairs like this, Mr. Biko!”
I froze.

“What are you talking about, Felix?” I asked softly.


My hair had always been jet black, inherited from my father. Even at his rich age, he had just a speckle of greys in his hair.

I was just twenty-six years old, one year to the day my father died.

“Your hair, Mr. Biko,” Felix said gently. “Plenty, plenty grey hair. Ah, I don’t understand o! Or you use some yeye hair dye for top? Because last week when you came no grey, but today nooor so much grey like this? Why?”
I bolted from the chair and faced the huge mirror!
That morning I had combed my hair, and there had been no grey. What the hell was this barber talking about?