aamusedinatx | Abuse with a Smile

I adore, Karen: my crazy Vietnamese nail salon lady. She always argues with me, overrides my choice of color, lectures me on my boyfriends, and looks for any reason to up-sell me. And I PAY HER FOR THIS! She and Mary and Corine all take good care of me, they make me laugh, they argue with me, they rip my eyebrows off my face and all the while speak to me in English and to each other in Vietnamese--often (seemingly) simultaneously.

Karen (ripping the fabric and wax and half my face off at the same time)
Me: SQUEAL!YELP!OUCH!watery eyes
Karen: (calmly rolling lotion over my brow). "Don't squeal! You scare my customers."

Me: "I need my nails cut down this time, they're getting too long to type with."
Karen" "No! Its Holidays! You need long pretty nails. I leave them this way-you get New Year Kiss. And no, this wrong color. You do red. It's holiday, long red nail--you get boyfriend!"

Me: (first visit I lay down on the bed in the back to get my brows done.)
Mary: Lays her hand flat on my crotch "You like bikini wax too yes? You dark hairy girl!"
Me: (fighting urge to cross legs) "UM, no just the brows today!"

Me: (squirming in my chair trying not to giggle because my feet are very ticklish.)
Corine: (looks up while scrubbing my feet with a pumice stone--grins and rubs harder) "You jumpy today-you drink too much coffee."

My co-worker sent me this link today and I died laughing. This girl has the whole experience "nailed."

(work safe).