Now let me share with you what was given to me this past week in the form of a letter (he’s here tonight). His father was a low man on the totem pole when he first encountered him. There were four in the shop and he was the fourth man. If you’re familiar with the barber shop—maybe you ladies don’t know—the boss always has the first chair, so if it’s a slow day, he gets the man. By the time he is through if the second one comes in, he gets the second one…he doesn’t share him. If three should come in, they go to the different chairs. But four chairs…the fourth one waits for his customer. Well, this friend of mine, one day he happened to sit in his chair and he liked the way he cut his hair, and gathered from what he said he liked cutting hair. He was proud of the profession as a barber, proud of it…not making excuses as so many barbers do. He was proud to be a barber and wanted to be the very best barber and win competitions. So having heard this man express this desire, he imagined that he was tops. Well, in a little while he bought out his father and then dismissed him, and rearranged his setup, and from then on began to proceed to the top.867 ¶2