Once upon a time Holly found herself with an
extra hour and 1/2 without three boys who she calls her children. Holly hardly could contain herself. She decided that she would take that time to do something fun for herself.
To pamper herself.
To give herself a hug.
She decided that she would go to the nail salon!
Holly walked into Pretty Nails and found that they had availability RIGHT THEN!
Yay for Holly.
Holly then noted that she was the ONLY person in the salon that didn’t work there.
Lucky, lucky Holly.
This was Holly’s third visit to the nail salon in 37 years
(averaging one visit every 12.333333 years).
Her first visit was right before her
wedding. She had a manicure with those faux nails. She then spent her honeymoon trying to rip off the faux nails one by one with her teeth because they were driving her crazy.
Holly doesn’t bite her real nails, just her faux ones.
Let’s just admit that she might suffer from
PTWFNS (Post Traumatic Wedding Faux Nail Syndrome) and assume that she is not at the nail salon for a manicure:
Yep! Holly is going to kick off her fancy boots for a
pedicure.
After a lot of hand motions, Holly gathers from the salon employee that she is supposed to choose what pedicure she wants.
Holly has no idea but decides that she wants to put her feet in warm water and she doesn’t want to mortgage her house to pay for it.
Let’s have a spa pedicure!
Holly is motioned into a massage chair made in heaven. Her feet are placed in clouds of warm water.
Wow!
This IS the life:
Holly is relaxing.
Holly is meditating.
Holly is basking in the sunshine radiating from her soul.
It occurs to Holly that the salon employees are
talking. And it is
serious. In fact, there might even be a bit of
yelling going on.
But Holly remains clueless as to WHY since the heated discussion is not in Holly’s native tongue.
And then there is some
screaming.
Oh,
that would be Holly as her foot is savagely attacked by a salon employee who is simultaneously
screaming at another employee.
The
screaming continues between the salon employees. No one in the salon has noticed that
Holly has joined in.
Then there was some
stomping.
And some
door slamming.
And then it got very quiet.
Holly looks up and she is still the only person in the salon except now there are no salon employees.
All the salon employees are outside the front door. All she can see through the door and window are wild hand motions.
And then the
door opened, a phrase that Holly recognized was uttered…
YOU ARE FIRED!
And then another
door slam.
These words were hurled at the very salon employee who had been working on Holly’s feet.
This salon employee then grabbed her purse and
slammed the door on her way out.
And then
it got quiet. Everyone came back inside. Another lady sat down at Holly’s feet.
No mention of what happened.
No comment as to the commotion.
It was almost like they expected Holly not to notice.
The end.
Holly walked into Pretty Nails and found that they had availability RIGHT THEN!
Yay for Holly.
Holly then noted that she was the ONLY person in the salon that didn’t work there.
Lucky, lucky Holly.
This was Holly’s third visit to the nail salon in 37 years (averaging one visit every 12.333333 years).
Her first visit was right before her wedding. She had a manicure with those faux nails. She then spent her honeymoon trying to rip off the faux nails one by one with her teeth because they were driving her crazy.
Holly doesn’t bite her real nails, just her faux ones.
Let’s just admit that she might suffer from PTWFNS (Post Traumatic Wedding Faux Nail Syndrome) and assume that she is not at the nail salon for a manicure:
Yep! Holly is going to kick off her fancy boots for a pedicure.
After a lot of hand motions, Holly gathers from the salon employee that she is supposed to choose what pedicure she wants.
Holly has no idea but decides that she wants to put her feet in warm water and she doesn’t want to mortgage her house to pay for it.
Let’s have a spa pedicure!
Holly is motioned into a massage chair made in heaven. Her feet are placed in clouds of warm water.
Wow! This IS the life:
Holly is relaxing.
Holly is meditating.
Holly is basking in the sunshine radiating from her soul.
It occurs to Holly that the salon employees are talking. And it is serious. In fact, there might even be a bit of yelling going on.
But Holly remains clueless as to WHY since the heated discussion is not in Holly’s native tongue.
The screaming continues between the salon employees. No one in the salon has noticed that Holly has joined in.
And some door slamming.
And then it got very quiet.
Holly looks up and she is still the only person in the salon except now there are no salon employees.
All the salon employees are outside the front door. All she can see through the door and window are wild hand motions.
It was almost like they expected Holly not to notice.
The end.
My daughter and I had her nails done for her birthday and they jabbered away in Korean–that drives me crazy. They never had a conversation like that one before–what did you do 😉
OMG! See what happens when you’re not a regular there? 🙂 I kid. I kid 😉
That must have been so..um,…awkward!
I definitely suffer from PTWFNS too. I feel like my nails are suffocating 🙁
Well, at least you got to hear something in English while there besides, “You need eyebrow wax.” (no, I wouldn’t be talking about me, not at all…)
So funny that suburban correspondent mentioned the fish pedi. My hus just sent me that link yesterday! ha!
That is so funny. I used to get my nails done by Asian peeps and I always thought it would be funny if I went in with another friend and we gabbled on and on in another language, occasionally looking at them and gesturing towards them. Maybe they’d wonder, HEY are they talking about me??? I wonder what they’re saying?!?!
Translation:
“Looks like this lady hasn’t had her toes done in, like, 12.333 years!”
“You were in charge of marketing! Why couldn’t you get her in here before”
“Hey, at least I got her to spring for the spa pedi!”
“That’s my point imbicile! If they’re only in every 12 years you must talk them into the diamond pedi!”
“But I don’t speak English!”
“How you gonna twitter new customers with our pedicure specials if you don’t speak English yet? You’re fired!”
Ok wait, I am LOLing at too many things at once, first the PTWFNS, then at the fact that they left you in the chair to brawl outside!!!
If this was to encourage people to get pedicures….
So, did you leave a tip? 🙂
Personally, I think it’s rude of employees to speak a foreign tongue in front of customers – it’s suspicious and makes me paranoid. And then they get upset with you when they deign to speak with you and you cannot understand them.
On the bright side, being left in the lurch for however short amount of time, while having a root canal done may have been a much more painful experience!
Glad animated Holly is back. I may or may not have been having animation withdrawls!
Geez, what did you do to piss off the tech?
I’m in such a coma when I’m getting a pedi that I may not have noticed. Aside from the pain.
So. How’d your toes come out?
I think it was your fault.
And, I didn’t see the fish pedicure mentioned as one of the options.
Click on that link – it’s worth it.