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The Barber

This guy sticks his head into a barber shop and asks, ``How long before I can get a haircut?'' The barber looks around the shop and says, ``About 2 hours'' The guy leaves.

A few days later the same guy sticks his head in the door and asks, ``How long before I can get a haircut?'' The barber looks around at shop full of customers and says, ``About 2 hours'' The guy leaves.

A week later the same guy sticks his head in the shop and asks, ``How long before I can get a haircut?'' The barber looks around the shop and says, ``About an hour and a half'' The guy leaves

The barber looks over at a friend in the shop and says, ``Hey, Bill, follow that guy and see where he goes''

In a little while, Bill comes back into the shop laughing hysterically The barber asks, ``Bill, where did he go when he left here?'' Bill looked up and said, ``To your house''

Vocabulary Help

  • haircut: corte de cabelo
  • leave (leave, left, left): sair, partir
  • stick: enfiar
  • customer: freguês
  • follow: seguir
  • see (see, saw, seen): ver
  • laugh: rir


Mais histórias como esta podem ser encontradas no livro Read in English: Uma Maneira Divertida de Aprender Inglês, publicado pela Editora Novatec,


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