Y’all, this is funny. I hope I can get across to you here how much this grossed me out and made me laugh at the same time.
I went and had my nails done, like I do every few weeks. You know, you can take the girl out of Brentwood, but, you can never totally take Brentwood out of the girl, sorta thing. Never mind I never had my nails done until I was 30 and living in Sumner County. It’s just something I do for myself. I also have short, stubby fingers and nails make them look somewhat graceful and not manly.
Anyway, I started going to this nail place here a couple months ago . It’s run by your regular, Vietnamese people. They start talking their native tongue to each other and I get all paranoid that they’re talking about me. “Phillip” the nail guy (I love how they always give themselves American names) is a nice little guy, although I can barely understand him and he does have a stutter. (There’s a sitcom for ya right there….a stuttering Vietnamese feller). He always knicks my cuticles when he’s doing his thing and it usually brings blood, but, the groovy surroundings and the elevator music renditions of stuff like “Physical” and a revved up version of “Unchained Melody” make up for the physical pain.
I always get stuck with this guy. Always. I think the girl that works in there must hate me and when they see me coming she goes “You get her. Nah nah!” He takes forever and it was hotter than hades in there this morning and I’m sitting there wishing the Vietnamese Mel Tillis would hurry up when I notice he has a hair on his chin/neck area. Not a beard, but, one, single hair. I thought maybe he was shedding and to my absolute horror, I see that it was sorta like those unwanted boogers I get in the same place, but, I have sense enough to use something on it to get it off. Mel had let that one hair grow reallllllly long ON PURPOSE. Part of me wanted to ask him why in the hayell did he have one, long, curly hair growing out of his neck? Is that some Buddhist tradition? Is he trying to get in the Guiness Book of World Records for long, single hairs?
I think he was purposely trying to make me gag. He did a good job of it. I had noticed it last time I was there a few weeks ago, but, it was much shorter. What could he be trying to accomplish here?
February 20, 2007
sistasmiff
Collie's Corner 
8 responses to “Le Yucko”
Scout
February 20th, 2007 at 13:35
Well, you know his entire intent must have been to see how long he could go on with uno whisker before someone puked on him. Way to go for having a strong stomach!
I know what you mean about being paranoid about the language barrier and the possibility that the people are talking about you. Yep, I dated a guy from Taiwan for a couple of years, ended up meeting his totally non-fluent folks and found out later that, yes indeedy, their indecipherable jabbering was directed squarely at no one but me.:-)
sara sue
February 20th, 2007 at 13:57
“wishing the Vietnamese Mel Tillis would hurry up”
malia
February 20th, 2007 at 14:11
Is it just me or is there always one token guy in those places. There are two salons near me that I have gone to and both of them have one guy in a salon full of women and both of them only do mani’s, not pedi’s. Which is odd, since isn’t usually men who have the foot fetish?
sistasmiff
February 20th, 2007 at 14:48
I’ve had pedicures by dudes before. They do the massage part better. Strawnga and all….usually, I don’t mind the guys doing my nails. Nine times out of ten, they do a better job and they last longer and they tend to be a little more detail oriented (hence Mel taking forevah to get the job done).
Kathy T.
February 20th, 2007 at 15:52
An agent in my office had her nails done and told them to not cut her cuticles. They did anyway and she got this n-a-s-t-y infection to the point that even her arms swelled up. So if they cut your cuticles, my dear friend, bring your own equipment.
MixMonk
February 20th, 2007 at 21:43
…why didn’t ya’ just reach over an’ pull it out???….whilest smackin’ him up side tha’ head…
WonderDawg
February 21st, 2007 at 03:09
Note to self: check hair on neck before lunching with the Sista at the Mothership.
manicmanicurist
February 21st, 2007 at 07:28
Ew. that’s all kinda nasty.
There is no reason why he should be drawing blood when clipping your cuticles.. ack.. he needs to slow down and do a better job!
Orrr you could come up here and let ME do your nails:):):)