im not going to tell you how many there were , because this story isnt about the hair in stevens left ear ( or his right , before you ask , you always trying to find out whats happening before it happens ) so im not going to waste valuable paper and ink going on and on telling you all the details about those hairs and perhaps giving each one a cute little name or arranging them on a color scale from dark to light shades which i could do , because we were on the elevator long enough for it but i can assure you that there were enough hairs so that itd take a lot more than twelve seconds to count them all .