As every one knows I do any service that I need done to myself at AF Bennett. For one its convenient having everything done in one place, and for the obvious reason, You are pampered while you are there, and sheltered from all the other riff raff that go to the $12.99 salons. Well, its been years since I have been in (as my mother would say) the common people salon. So being I was pressed for time having to do a whole bunch of things to prepare myself for a bridal shower on Sunday. I decided to have my manicure and pedicure done at another place. Now this wasnt just another random place. It came highly recommend by a friend of my mothers. She said they put clay masks on your legs and give a great massage etc. - Ok not to bad. My mother also adds thats.. This women knows what she is talking about because she has gone to AF Bennett and knows a "good" pedicure. Ok, I tell my mother to make the two of us appointments and she has no clue of the name, so she calls her friend who recommended us and she also has no idea what its called but said not to worry becasue you dont need an appointment - hmmm feeling a little fishy about the no appt. needed, I said well maybe we should try and get one anyway. So my mother drives there being its only a few minutes away to make us appointment's. We arrive there for our appt. at 6, and I walk to the women who seems to be the manager, and tell her that we have appts. So she starts to yell throughout the salon - Mani/Pedi - Mani/Pedi - Mani/Pedi. And we are standing there waiting for someone to come - Oh did I not mention that all the workers were sitting there in plain site chatting with each other, oh and there were NO customers.... Finally someone who looks like she is there Mexican cleaning women comes, and takes me for my pedicure. Now I have to stand there as she removes all the items such as cleaning supplies, garbage cans and towels out of the pedicure bin so that I can sit there. After she was done I had to squeeze myself threw to get on this chair against a wall and up a step, that had I been an inch fatter I would have still been there now. The pedicure begins.... She places what looks like Palmolive into the basin, and proceeds to speak Sp'anese (Spanish & Chinese) to the girl next to her doing my mothers feet. You know they are talking about you, You just know it. She takes out a bottle that says callous remover pours it over my feet and with her gloved hand (cause she never takes them off) starts rubbing it into my feet. All that came to mind was seeing some mob movie, and remember them using a liquid to dislove away human bodies after killing them. Well this very well could have been the same stuff. Oh here comes the clay mask that I heard off. SLAM - She threw it onto the front of my legs and left it there as it landed. I almost feel like I am being filmed because this cant clearly be how everyone gets a pedicure. Its now time for her to remove the mask. She uses the water in the tub that I have been putting my feet in and out of to wash my legs off. Now feeling that I need an instant shower-SLAM- she throws the lotion on my legs and with a one handed motion massagses them switching hands on each commercial of the Mets game.. Yes we had a baseball game on this entire time, and she still has not stopped talking Sp'anese. Oh please let this end. Thank God its polish time...as she is polishing half of my toe nails I am dreading my manicure. I rather not even speak of that. My grand total was 28.00.. It would have been 18.oo but she said she gave me the premium pedicure.. All I could do was laugh.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Mani/Pedi - Mani/Pedi
As every one knows I do any service that I need done to myself at AF Bennett. For one its convenient having everything done in one place, and for the obvious reason, You are pampered while you are there, and sheltered from all the other riff raff that go to the $12.99 salons. Well, its been years since I have been in (as my mother would say) the common people salon. So being I was pressed for time having to do a whole bunch of things to prepare myself for a bridal shower on Sunday. I decided to have my manicure and pedicure done at another place. Now this wasnt just another random place. It came highly recommend by a friend of my mothers. She said they put clay masks on your legs and give a great massage etc. - Ok not to bad. My mother also adds thats.. This women knows what she is talking about because she has gone to AF Bennett and knows a "good" pedicure. Ok, I tell my mother to make the two of us appointments and she has no clue of the name, so she calls her friend who recommended us and she also has no idea what its called but said not to worry becasue you dont need an appointment - hmmm feeling a little fishy about the no appt. needed, I said well maybe we should try and get one anyway. So my mother drives there being its only a few minutes away to make us appointment's. We arrive there for our appt. at 6, and I walk to the women who seems to be the manager, and tell her that we have appts. So she starts to yell throughout the salon - Mani/Pedi - Mani/Pedi - Mani/Pedi. And we are standing there waiting for someone to come - Oh did I not mention that all the workers were sitting there in plain site chatting with each other, oh and there were NO customers.... Finally someone who looks like she is there Mexican cleaning women comes, and takes me for my pedicure. Now I have to stand there as she removes all the items such as cleaning supplies, garbage cans and towels out of the pedicure bin so that I can sit there. After she was done I had to squeeze myself threw to get on this chair against a wall and up a step, that had I been an inch fatter I would have still been there now. The pedicure begins.... She places what looks like Palmolive into the basin, and proceeds to speak Sp'anese (Spanish & Chinese) to the girl next to her doing my mothers feet. You know they are talking about you, You just know it. She takes out a bottle that says callous remover pours it over my feet and with her gloved hand (cause she never takes them off) starts rubbing it into my feet. All that came to mind was seeing some mob movie, and remember them using a liquid to dislove away human bodies after killing them. Well this very well could have been the same stuff. Oh here comes the clay mask that I heard off. SLAM - She threw it onto the front of my legs and left it there as it landed. I almost feel like I am being filmed because this cant clearly be how everyone gets a pedicure. Its now time for her to remove the mask. She uses the water in the tub that I have been putting my feet in and out of to wash my legs off. Now feeling that I need an instant shower-SLAM- she throws the lotion on my legs and with a one handed motion massagses them switching hands on each commercial of the Mets game.. Yes we had a baseball game on this entire time, and she still has not stopped talking Sp'anese. Oh please let this end. Thank God its polish time...as she is polishing half of my toe nails I am dreading my manicure. I rather not even speak of that. My grand total was 28.00.. It would have been 18.oo but she said she gave me the premium pedicure.. All I could do was laugh.
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HYSTERICAL! Ironically, I was at the coveted AF Bennett the day before you went here getting one of those 'she she' pedicures by LOIS! You were right, not the best one to go to. You know that grape peel mud that they are supposed to rub into your skin and exfoliate with? She glopped it on and walked away as well! HILARE!
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