Sorry for the boring football stats lately. I have been really drawing a blank with the blog. I did have an incident the other day though that I thought I'd share. (P.S. this turned out longer than I anticipated, sorry)
A little background..
Since I was about 17 yrs old I have had acrylic nails.
(not my hand)
I have had to change nail techs several times, which is painful. If you don't get your nails done, you probably think this is silly. If you do, you know how important a good tech can be. While it is true, there is a nail salon on every corner, most are not very good.
I went to a lady in Bountiful named Jeanette. I'd been going to her for 8 years. She is fantastic. Reasons why I loved Jeanette:
1. She is fast. Thiry minutes and I was out the door.
2. She doesn't really chat, which is good.
3. She knew exactly how to shape my nails.
4. She airbrushed a perfect french manicure.
5. I could go almost 3 weeks between fills.
6. She only charged $16 for a fill.
7. I could always get in within 1 day of calling.
So, as you can see I was more sad to leave Jeanette than some of my friends when I moved...(just trickin') but she was great.
I've now been is California for 23 months. I've been to countless salons and until last week I'd found no one that could even hit 2 of the above 7. I know it seems crazy but I've had a really hard time. I found one lady that I pretty much liked, but she charged me $40...Ummm..NO!
I've found ones less expensive, but the quality was terrible, and most of all... the techs have been rude. Especially the guys. I guess they figure there's a million other women out there, they don't need to be nice.
Anyway a few weeks ago, my cell broke. I went to Verizon and got it taken care of. The girl that helped me had great nails. (At this point I have no shame, and will ask anyone about nails to try and find a good tech). She told me the salon name and the tech to go to. I was so excited. There was hope for decent nails.
So here we are to last week. I made my appt. and showed up. The lady's name is Jenny, and she did my nails. They looked great! She shaped them well, was fast, not chatty etc. I was very pleased. She is actually the owner of the salon. Her 2 daughters work there, and her youngest daughter was out of school that day, hanging out at the salon. I think she is about 8 yrs old. Gabby was with me in her car seat. She had been great the whole time. She really didn't make a peep until the last 5 minutes. I was over drying my nails, (under the fan) and she was fussing a little for me. I saw the little girl come over and stand by Gabby. I thought, Oh good, she will talk to her for a minute so she won't fuss. Then I heard the girl say:
"Shut up baby, shut up baby, shut up baby, shut up baby, I'm telling you to shut up baby! Shut up baby, shut up baby......
She just kept saying it!
My timer went off, and I hurried over to Gab. The girl just looked at me, not embarrassed about what she'd been saying, just looking annoyed.
The older sister came over to tell me the amount. The little girl said; "Isn't that baby annoying? She needs to shut up!" (FYI, Gabby is not crying, just fussing a little). The sister was stunned... She told the girl that the baby was fine, and that's what babies did, and stuff like that. The little girl just kept telling her to shut up and that she was annoying. I wanted to tell that little girl that she was the one who was annoying, and tell her it wasn't nice to talk like that. But as I went to speak up, this is what I saw:
I saw myself being banned from the only decent salon I've found!
So what DID I say....
I said nothing. I said nothing, paid the girl and quickly left. I was too afraid that Jenny might be a "Nail Nazi". I did not want to offend her. I let that little brat talk badly to my innocent little angel. What kind of a mother am I?
If Gabby had been old enough to understand the words I would have said something, banned or not. I thought, this girl doesn't know better, just leave. Was I wrong?
I know I should have said something, in a nice way, because I've thought about it since it happened. That means I feel guilty. I don't mean to make this an earth shaking incident, but what would you have done?
