[2Jedismom]

Well, I'm back!

I don't have any pictures, and none worth taking anyway. My haircut turned out pretty good, considering I only let him take an inch off (yes, HIM). My hair hasn't been cut in probably 2 years, so it's gonna take a few cuts to get it back in good shape. But I think I'll just take it slow.

OK, here's the story (and in my life, everything seems to have to be story).

Now, remember, I've never had a manicure before.

This guy come up to me and introduces himself. He LOOKED like a hardened criminal. No kidding. But he was personable and friendly and I'm an amiable person. So he gave me my blunt cut haircut. Did what I considered was an outstanding job. He was quick and thorough and when the teacher checked it, he'd done an almost perfect job. By the time he finished, I knew he was a drunk though...he told me all about his drinking binges. Very friendly sort, though.

Then it's on to the manicure. Same guy gonna do it. He was very forthcoming when he told me he didn't do too many of them. The best part was I got to soak my hands in hot lotion while he ran all over the place getting items from other people's tables.

Then he started pushing back my cuticles...now that smarted and i said so. "OH!" says he..."I forgot the cuticle softener!" He put that on, much better.

Then he started clipping off my cuticles with these sideways clippers that seemed dull, they wouldn't clip. He would clip and then PULL the cuticle off! Yowzer!

Now by this time I had found out that he did indeed answer to a parole officer and that he had forgotten his painpills for his back that morning.

Then he clipped a chunk of my pinky finger cuticle and I started to bleed. He clamped his bare thumb down it. I JERKED my finger away and screeched "That's a BIOHAZARD! Don't put your bare skin on it!" Then I promptly calmed and gave him a lesson on what do it he ever encountered human fluids again, put a gauze or something between him and the blood.

He seemed to appreciate the hazmat lesson.

Then he went over my nails with a fluffy thing, no buff or anything and that was it.

[HairOfTheDog]

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't have any pictures, and none worth taking anyway.

I disagree.... Think we need pictures!

[ecurbh]

He didn't look like this, did he?

[RosieCotton]

Oh dear...you and your adventures!

Meanwhile I'm feeling annoyed 'cause I just got off the phone with a student who was chewing gum LOUDLY the whole time I was on the phone with her. Then there are those who have music blaring in the background. At our house, we were always taught to turn off the radio or TV if anyone called or came to the door, and I CERTAINLY wouldn't have called to ask for computer help with a big mouthful o' gum. Kids these days... < /cranky old lady >

[Corin Stormhands]

You went to that place next tuh the pawnshop, didn'cha?

[Wneighbor]

Oh dear.... did you call that teacher over there? This is not good. Did you report what all he did? Oh no! That was just horrible for you! I have my appointment with my nail lady coming up here in less than an hour! I wish I could send you instead of me to get yourself soothed!

[SuziQ]

ROTFL!! It's always SOMETHING with you, 2J! ;o)

[PurpleQ]

Hey 2J! Sorry your day of beauty turned out to be painful! And please don't take this the wrong way! I am not trying to be facetious. But, I have always thought, "You get what you pay for". Now, that doesn't mean you can't get a heck of a deal for some product or service. There is a difference there. I have just been too scared to put my hair and flesh in the hands on some one that hasn't exactly completed their training and learning process. My in laws have done hair for over 30 years and he has some of the same clients he picked up in beauty school. So I don't mean that all of the students out there are nincompoops. There are some students out there that know what they are doing. It is like playing the lottery though. Some you win, some you lose. It is too big of a gamble for me.