What's the weirdest thing you heard from the other side of the table?

[hello_kitty]

these are so funny!!

i once had a client that phone up asking if we did fasle nails! i guessed she was meaning acrylics it was her daugters wedding and she wanted them put on for it! which is very normal! she booked in a few days later when she came in i sat her down at the table, as i sat down she put a set of stick on nails from the supermarket by the salon on the table and asked if she could use her own nails she had brought in as they had a pretty patten on them!!!! i didnt know what to say to her! lol!

then last weekend we have 3 nail sations in the salon i was sat down with one of my fav clients a little old ladies, the other two girls had clients in, the other girls clients both new each other as they had been in a mental hosptal together 3 years ago one had just beeen back in to the hospital the week before! the things they where talking about in the salon was mad!! my ladies loked up at me n said you do see a lot of life in this salon!! i felt so bad for my lady the stuff they there saying infornt of her!!

oh n one of my clients thinks bart simpson is her boyfriend, she talks to us like he lives with her n the rest of the simpson family like they live around the corner!!! she always has a bart tshrit or jumper on n sum times comes in with a doll of bart with her!!!!

sorry for the long post!!!!! sadly i got made reduntant from this salon last week really going to miss some client we get in!!!! xoxx

 

[LadyFinger7]

My wierdest situation was when I first started and I was over at a family friends doing her pedicure. Actually it was more of an annoying situation. I would be doing her pedicure and she has 3 small children plus one older child who is severly handicapped. I love her, but she doesn't discipline her kids.

Her youngest would be sticking his feet in her pedicure water while the second youngest was throwing toys at me while I would polish. The disabled son is a sweetie, but he shows his attention by smacking you on the back (he's 14 now and HUGE! I mean this kid has power), so I'd be rocking around trying to avoid getting smacked while the other two are bothering me to polish their toes!! (their only 3ish) and when I'd try not to pay attention to the littelest one he sat inside my pedicure bowl holder! To boot, they all figured out how to open the latch on my tool box so I'd have to keep an eye on them to make sure they didn't take anything!! Nevermind the fact that everytime I'd open my toolbox some toy would be thrown into it. Oh! And I forgot, their aim got better as we progressed and the second youngest managed to bash his mum's polish with a hot wheels car right after I'd just finished it.

Their cute, but by the time the little one was sitting in my carrying case I was losing it. I would have completely freaked but at that point I had already decided she'd have to come to my house minus the children if she ever wanted another pedicure. It was a good lesson for me on nipping problems in the bud as soon as they happen, I will not work in that kind of environment. Because people will expect strange things out of you if you don't say anything.

In example, a woman has gotten a bikini sugar before and wants to know if it'd be okay if her husband helped with pulling the skin while I sugar!! Ummm... is that a joke? Basically, do I mind if your husband sits their staring and holding your crotch (probubly with a big, gross smile on his face that should be limited to your guys time in the bedroom!) while I, another woman is fussing around down there?!? LOL Yeah that sounds about as fun as having teeth pulled, thanks but no thanks. Geeeezz people have the most inappropriate requests. It's like, YOU just asked the question so obviously somewhere in there you think it's okay, and now your putting me in a position to tell you it's totally not okay.. talk about awkward!

 

[Perfected]

I don't think I have anything to add really...but these were great! Although, one time a client kept bragging about her Italian boyfriend and how he lived 6 months of the year in Italy, and usually she did too, but this year, blah blah blah. I was so bored with her trying to get me to act impressed with her! I just kept thinking, Yeah, he probably has a girlfriend over in Italy!

 

[elements_aus]

The client who halfway through a braz wax said oh I hope you dont mind that I am taping this conversation.... We saw the tape recorder when she came out. I know it isnt nails but still, crazy!

 

[VHunter]

Okey dokey...

I have reg that's been working hard at losing weight and I must say, she's doing a FABULOUS job.
Anyway.... recently she came in for her rebalance, and she's chattering away about how much she's lost (40lbs) and says to me

"I can finally see my hoo-haw again!!" (meaning her privvies down south lol)


I couldn't stop laughing.


Another time.. I was treating an esthetician who worked at a local beauty counter. Mature woman in her 60's, but young in personality. Very sympathetic-motherly type, but fashionable without looking ridiculous? (you know how some mature peeps dress 'young' and look silly, and some are just fashionable... know what I mean?).
Anyway.... It's summer and I didn't have Air conditioning at the time. I was wearing a tank.
Out of the blue, with her free hand, she reaches out and grabs a handful of one of my boobs, jiggles it, and says 'oohhh they're very natural, your doctor did a good job. You must love them" Much as a grandmother would pat a pregnant woman's belly. I was flabbergasted to say the least. We laughed about it, because I was more surprised than uncomfortable because of 'how' she was as a person? there was really nothing 'weird' about it? But I did tell her "you realize my own mother hasn't done that?"

I'm sure that there are others, but those ones stand out in my mind.
:lol:

 

[Ophala]

these are all so funny! the last one in particular reminds me of a client i had....

she was in her 80s and always coming out with awkward questions, so i'd recently started seeing my bf (i'm jewish, so is the client but my bf isn't) we're talking about it and whether my family mind etc etc when she asks me 'so does your bf have a foreskin?!' i was so shocked i just said erm no...! it's none of her business, i couldn't believe she asked it!!!

i have another client i was at today and he cat is really naughty. he jumps onto the table while im doing her nails and starts licking and biting my nail files in the pot! we have to shoo him away constantly!!!

 

[jedane]

OMG....i was really sad when i started reading this threat but i can not stop giggeling now!
thanks !
Jedane

 

[leanne]

its not nails but i was doing a clients facial and i asked her how she had been finding her skin recently as she had previously bought some cream from me... she was a regular client in her 80s and a neighbour too... and she proceeded to tell me about a rash she was having down low... i quickly stopped her and told her to go to her gp and said to her that i meant the skin on her face! but she rattled on about her sex life with her husband and all that they get up too!
i was bright red with embarrasment by the time she left - and a bit jealous as she got up to more than me! hope im that active when im in my 80s! lol!

 

[shedunlop]

When I was mobile I was asked if I could do a chin wax for a lovely old lady who was 86. As I was setting up she was asking me about myself and commented on what a lovely figure I had. I thanked her very much, I don't get compliments that often so was grateful. Anyway she went on to say what a lovely looking girl I was and how well presented I was, again I thanked her. As I was doing her chin she told me what beautiful skin I had and asked me what I used and if she could buy some. It wasn't until after that she revealed that she used to pluck her chin but unfortunately lost her sight in 1992 and hadn't been able to see a thing apart from outlines since then! So much for the compliments!!:lol:

 

[lasach66]

Not so much what someone has said but something funny happened today! Went to do a new set of nails on a young lady, brand new client. She lives at house number 79, hadnt been on this road and all way there was chanting 79, 79, 79 which somehow when I found road had turned into number 74 so got all kit out of car and knocked on the wrong door, thankfully noone answered! Went back to car, put all kit back in whilst ringing client on my mobile. Whilst talking to her an older man came out of house few doors up and said "we're at this house,she's waiting inside" so I put mobile down said "see you in a second" and followed this man into the house. Looked at the house number and was 84 and made my excuses that I couldnt understand how I'd written number 79 down in my diary?

Was still trying to work it out when he said she's upstairs and he carried my case upstairs for me at which point a middle aged woman greeted me on the landing and said she's in here (did think was strange doing nails in a bedroom but assumed the young woman wanted it doing in peace n quiet away from her parents) Anyway went into bedroom and was an old lady sleeping in bed (looked ghastly)and other lady explained she'd been up all night with her and had been waiting for me all morning, at which point I realised something amiss!! Said to her you obviously dont want your nails done and she said no I thought you were the doctor. God Im blushing whilst Im writing this, I feel so stupid. Then had to carry all my stuff down the stairs & explain to the older man that I should have been at number 79 afterall and he explained he saw my white tunic and bag (bright pink case!) and assumed I was the doctor to look at his mother. By this time I was sweating with embarrassment but luckily on way out the NHS van was just pulling up outside. I then had to put kit back into car and find number 79 (round the corner as was a Crescent) and tell her why I had taken so long to find her!! She thought it was histerically funny thankfully and loved the nails by the way, hopefully she'll ask me back for her infills and my blondeness not put her off (I'm brunette really) OMG what a weird day????

 

[elliebabes33]

omg what interesting stories haha! I havent had anything shocking, the only thing that made me gag was the salon owner (I rent my space in her salon) had been eating cottage cheese wrapped in ham (she is addicted to the Atkins diet) and had it all up her nails when I came to infill them - urgh! She then took my tweezers off my trolley and started pulling a stray hair out of her chin and then just put them back!!!!!

 

[VHunter]

omg what interesting stories haha! I havent had anything shocking, the only thing that made me gag was the salon owner (I rent my space in her salon) had been eating cottage cheese wrapped in ham (she is addicted to the Atkins diet) and had it all up her nails when I came to infill them - urgh! She then took my tweezers off my trolley and started pulling a stray hair out of her chin and then just put them back!!!!!

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW


Where's the pukey smiley???
(Sam!! we need a pukey smiley lol)

 

[laurenatcherubs]

I had a drunk client in for make-up, absolutlety reeked of booze but she was acting fine and she's a regular so i went ahead with it. I had literally just started putting the foundation on when she jumped up lookied in the mirror and said "OH WOW! that is absolutely fantastic! Thankyou hun!" and started getting her purse out to pay, i was like woaaah im not done yet :irked:
Confused, i sat her back down and carried on, while she babbled about missing her ex-husband and so on. When i was done she did the whole "oh wow! thats amazing!" thing in the mirror again and her eyes all teared up.
I didnt know what to do! and bear in mind, this appointment was at 10:30 am :S
She's booked in for a facial this week, lets hope she's sober this time

 

[MichelleG]

I've only had one Whacky so far (sorry if this is long). I'd put out ads saying I was a nail student looking for people to practice on in my home.

A girl replied, we set an appt and she came over. Seemed nice and just RAVED about the work. Talked non-stop, in great detail about her amazing fiance, her huge family, and all her friends.

But she spent her entire appt fighting with the Amazing Fiance via cellphone. Finally, halfway through, she says she has to go, he's pi**ed she's not home. Um...ok. I had JUST put on her prosthetics. Hadn't started the gel yet. So she was clean but I warned her to be VERY careful with these tips, as they were only glued.

She comes back the next evening so I can finish, again just RAVING about the work, I'm so good, the best she's ever seen, and I have to do her whole wedding party when she marries the Amazing Fiance. Oh yes, blah blah blah, they have all their problems worked out, it was no big thing.

I finally finish and off she goes, apparently just thrilled. I'm so nice, the coolest nail tech EVER and she's going to come to me like ALL THE TIME when I begin working for real.

At just past MIDNIGHT that night, my phone rings again: she's at a metro station dowtown all by herself, can she come over? The Amazing Fiance beat the snot out of her and she left him and had no one else to turn to. Despite all these stories of her huge wonderful family and wide circle of friends.

Frankly...call me cold...but I just said (when I could think straight -- I'd been in bed, almost asleep) "I'm really sorry to hear that and I'm not saying I don't care, but I cannot get involved in the personal lives of my clients," and suggested she go to her family.

So that was my one Whacky. Never heard from her again, despite an appointment to do her fill 3 weeks later. I wasn't really surprised though. Again, sorry if this was long.

 

[josiegrocy]

These storys are very funny lol, I used to have i client in who was a "high class escort".....she used to come in for many treatments and one day she decided to have a set of l&p's. After i did them she asked me how hard she could dig them in to someones back? and would they snap? I just looked at her in amazement and really didnt know what to say lol i just had a horrible mental picture of what she was goig to do with these nails and what was going to be under them when she came back for a rebalance lol

Hahahaha!! I had the same happen to me only my client was a dominatrix and she wanted pointy nail tips for extra effect!!! Ooooof poor old bloke thats all I can say!!!

 

[jade_m_b]

Not sure my stories are as interesting but just yesterday one lady and her daughter were talking about how obsessed they are with removing the hard skin off their feet with a blade that one day her friend asked her to do it and before she realised she had took a massive chunk of her friends heel off and blood was everywhere and all she had nearby was a flowerpot to put her foot in, then she ran to get a tea towel. Another time one lady after a massge said 'you enjoyed that as much as I did didn't you' as she walked out into the corridor where other therapists were waiting for their clients they looked at me with disgust, and when I come back up they wondered what the hell I'd done to her. I told her I'd rather be on the bed myself having a treatment but that was odd! One old lady who was deaf I was mouthing the whole way through a manicure too took me nearly double the time as I had to look at her too mouth everything but she was lovely, at the end her daughter come in too take her back up to the hotel room, she
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[jade_m_b]

She asked to have her photo taken with me! Felt abit like a celebrity lol! And then a young girl the other month decided to tell me all about how the pill wasn't working for her so she will have to get the coil but she doesn't like the idea of that and her boyfriend told her it was ok he wld just wear a condom but she said she knew he didn't like them, omg I was mortified! I wldnt share stuff like that, she thn told me he lit her a candle bath in the hotel and walked in the bathroom with just a shower cap on, so when he come down to the spa I looked at him and laughed asking him where his shower cap was!
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[Divine Beauty Newcastle]

I was painting someones nails in a store while her mother was shopping and she had her 7 or 8 year old brother with her who seemed overly interested on all the things on my nail table and went on to say "You know how you sniff glue..." I sat and blinked at him. "...well, is it the same with nail varnishes, would they get you high if you sniffed them? Cos, like, it works with petrol doesnt it." Arghhhh. He then went on to try and smell my nail polish remover and barbicide. I was very aware of people walking past looking over with baffled expressions and had visions of being sued for causing fume inhalation damage. I grabbed his hand and practically screamed at him "STOP SMELLING THE CHEMICALS!!!" He then went on to interrogate me about my qualifications, insurance and how much I was being payed haha. Kids.

 

[Thompson24]

Im a male therapist and was carrying out a manicure after training, a lady went to the loo half way through and came back, she was wearing a wooly jumper. I went to roll her sleeve up for her to do a massage and was horrified, there attached to her sleeve was a used sanitary towel stuck to her jumper!!! OMG I didnt know what to say, i went bright red and i must have just stared as she asked what was up, she looked at it, pulled it off her jumper and put it on my nail desk and had the nerve to ask "is that yours" PMSL I didnt know what to say or do lol

 

[Nickie]

OMG!!! LOL! EWWWWWWWWW, poor you