Zaneta Loh: How long did it take you to grow (your hair) out?
Morgan Salmon: I’ve had it like this for about two moths now, and I think it took me two and a half months to grow it.
Loh: So what do you have to do to it every day? Do you have to gel it?
Salmon: No it stays up by itself. I just straighten it in the morning.
Loh: With a straightener?
Salmon: Yes.
Mauricio Lazo: Me too.
Loh: What kind of straightener do you have?
Salmon: I don’t know. It cost $11 at Wal-Mart.
Loh: Are you sure that’s good for your hair?
Salmon: I don’t know. It works.
Loh: How long are you going to keep it?
Salmon: Probably about halfway through football season.
Loh: Why halfway?
Salmon: Because I’ll probably be tired of it by then.
Loh: What if we keep winning?
Salmon: Well, if we keep winning I’ll keep it, definitely.
Loh: Have your parents seen your hair?
Salmon: Yeah, my mom saw it. She asked "why?" That’s the first thing she said, was "why?"
Loh: What did you say?
Salmon: I said, "Why not?"
Loh: Does she like it?
Salmon: She says it draws attention to myself. But she’s like "It’s not my head." Girls like it though.
Loh: Do you work anywhere?
Salmon: I work here at school, and I work as a bartender downtown. I used to work at the Toyota Center.
Loh: Doing what?
Salmon: I was a suite attendant, working in the suites with the big ballers.
Loh: At Astros games, in the suites, they pass around a paper and you can check off what kind of ice cream and toppings they want. Did you do that?
Salmon: No. Actually, at the Toyota center they bring around this desert cart… and it’s just full of desserts: velvet cake and carrot cake and cheesecake and all kinds of stuff.
Loh: Are people in the suites snobby?
Salmon: Sometimes you can get people like that, but for the most part everybody’s real cool and real chill. It’s a really good job because you get to see the concerts and games for free. You get paid $10 an hour, plus tips. The biggest tip that somebody ever got that I worked with was $1400 in one night. My biggest tip that I got was $700.
Loh: How about as a bartender?
Salmon: At the job that I work at now, $350.
Loh: That’s better than what we get paid.
