Only while waxing.

On a recent trip to the Nail salon I was subjected to a robust conversation between two patrons. One lady (getting her nails done up in coral) was persistently referring to the teenage girl to her right as the "next American Idol." And what was her criteria for supposing the teenager was worthy of such a distinction? The fact that she was better than everyone who had ever been on the show before. Even....and she had a hard time admitting to this....better than her beloved Bucky Covington.


"There I said it!" Said she.


The conversation was then turned in a different direction. This time by a woman who I noticed when I entered because she was screaming at her nail professional in pain. She announced to all in attendance that she has no skin? on her small finger...only bone, so she comes in to get it covered to look like a nail so that people won't stare. I didn't get a close look at what she described, but apparently she doesn't want us to stare or even know it exists? She also screamed later when she sat down. I think the chair surprised her.


She began telling us that she was in a class and that the ethnic background of the students in the class was quite diverse. "Yeah the husband of my teacher is all the way from.......?" She lost her train of thought and couldn't remember the name of the country. So the lady with Coral fingernails decided to help by naming all the exotic and foreign places she could think of. This list included the Taj Mahal and Seaworld. Eventually they agreed that the man came from Ugali. I don't actually know how to spell it because I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. I might be wrong.


I went back to get my eyebrows waxed and ended up getting my whole face waxed thanks to the unyielding guilt trip the waxer put on me. She doesn't even speak English. She just knows enough to make feel bad. "Oh it's been long time-how this make you feel bout self?" "Oh there are lots of hair in moustache-me take care of for ten dollar?"