*picture borrowed with gratitude from Google Images

Last Friday I did something different. Blog-Stedman and the boys had given me a spa gift certificate for Mother’s Day and I gleefully redeemed it.

I called the spa that morning to see if they had any availability that day since my mom was coming and could watch the boys. Thank God for grandma!

They had an afternoon appointment open in which I could receive a massage followed by a facial. The stars had aligned correctly and mommy was going to the spa…

It was fabulous in a way that I could feel myself feeling how fabulous it was the entire time.

I was relaxed.

I was pampered.

I was restfully ecstatic.

The whole afternoon went without incident. The whole afternoon went without incident. The whole afternoon went without incident! In fact, it was so incident-free that I was reflecting on how incident-free the whole experience had been while getting dressed after the appointment.

Why would I be surprised of the afternoon’s incident-freeness?

Things usually just happen to me. I am not complaining, but the truth is things seldom run incident-free.

So I was reveling in the incident-free nature of the afternoon when I reach for my shoes…

…which I soon realized had been LOCKED into the locker beneath mine.

It is a bit hard to see in these pictures, but the lockers have a cut-out where the top locker’s door covers some area of the locker below and the bottom locker’s door covers some of the upper locker. This place was very fancy.



So, I put on my provided spa flip-flops and went out to the front desk to report my shoe loss. They were very nice and assured me that it happens all the time…

Which I totally don’t believe because it took the locker manual, two locker unlockers (I am sure that is the scientific name for it), two spa employees and 25 minutes to retrieve my shoes.

I left the spa feeling all was right with the world because really, incident-free is so boring…



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41 Comments

  1. *LOL* Well, at least you got SOME measure of incident-free-ness. It just didnt’ last ALL day 😀

  2. LOL I was expecting some sort of wardrobe malfunction. Great post! I need a spa day. . .

  3. They owe you more treatment for all that horrible stress they put you under. To have to walk out in public in those flip flops–why I could cry. I’ll get one of our attorneys that advertises on TV to fight for you–I bet he will!

    Glad you got a spa day!

  4. Wow, you were up writing this at 3:15am? Surely not. I think you need another spa treatment for your late night literary dedications!

  5. Well, I have to say that’s a milder “incident” than what I was expecting. I thought you were going to tell us that after reaching for your shoes, you hit your head against the locker door, and it was Bloody Holly all over again.

  6. I think that they OWE you another spa day! I mean the trauma of having to wear spa flip flops while ‘locker unlockers’ (I like it) unlock the lock.

    Or maybe they should just give you some cake.

    Have a great day!