But who knows, could turn out that way. I'm on my way to europe this week. I carefully planned the coloring of my roots for this saturday. I made the appointment 7 weeks ago, which is incredibly not like me. I am usually calling the day before I want the appointment to beg my way in. However, this time I wanted to make sure that I had everything set for first thing in the morning. The stylist I go to has been coloring my hair for 5 years now. I met her as a teen when she dated a friend of my nephew. I've been in and out of this particular salon for 4 years at this point. So, here I am expecting my haircut and color (she usually throws in the haircut for free so this is HUGE to me as I'm getting this all on the cheap) when I walk into the salon. I arrive, state my name and who I am there for and the young girl (who was just adorable) looks at me in panic and says "JUST A MINUTE!!!". 10 minutes later the manager of the salon comes out and in one sentence says "UNFORTUNATELYKELLYISNOLONGERWITHUSTHISJUSTHAPPENEDLASTNIGHTANDWETRIEDT TOCALLYOUTHISMORNINGBUTDIDN'THAVEYOURCELLONLYYOURHOMEI'MSOSORRY". I'm now in a mini state of panic as I am down to the wire and I've of course not done anything for my trip, or any of the other million things one does on a saturday. How can I present myself in Europe with an inch of roots complete with more grey than I care to remember? The cut?? The color??? As I panic and am in total "all about me mode" the manager then says "we do have another stylist coming in to do your color and to blow dry your hair". Whew. So I get the color done, don't get the haircut cause I don't want to shell out the extra 45 bucks, get a decent blowdry (almost substituted the word job for dry.....whew....) and then the owner of the salon (who I've known since I am a long time client) sits next to me and says "I hated to do it but we just had to ask her to leave. I hated to do it but what else could I do?" I said "you could have done it at the end of today instead of yesterday!".
So I'm in all about me mode right now, saying stupid things like "oh what bad luck, or I have bad luck" and that leads me on to another kvetch which isn't really a kvetch. A member of my family always says when something bad happens "if we wouldn't have bad luck, we would have no luck at all" and also "Oh its our family luck", implying that we have nothing but bad luck. To be sure, we have had our share of miseries and heartaches but whenever she says that I always wonder why she doesn't recognize the good luck we have as good luck. Like how wonderful the children are, or the good luck we had in our dad, or even the fact that we all have a roof over our head, food in our bellies and some measure of happiness.
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Track down Kelly and get her to cut your hair. Have you no sense of loyalty to a poor girl cast out of her employment... Although it may be interesting to find out why she was fired. She didn't start colouring people's hair bright red like a clown, for example. It would explain a lot.
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