i had a weird experience today. i went to Windward Mall to get some last minute items for my Italy trip and decided at the last minute to get my toes ready too. i find a place at the mall and got a pedi scheduled right away. woohoo!!
so, let me start with the chairs....awesome! top notch massage chairs. then the bathtub your feet go into is lit up with florescent colors. it was like midnight bowling without the bowling. it would've been super-cool if they turned off the lights at one point to really enhance the effect. but then the pedi-curist wouldn't be able to see what they are working on with their sharp implements....so maybe we keep the lights on.
they had a big flat screen TV turned to CNN. awesome!! catch up on the news while getting my soon-to-be-aching feet ready for the cobblestone streets of Rome. another woohoo please!
here's the disturbing part: my pedi-curist. it was a dude....and he wasn't gay....AND he sort of looked like my manly friend Tai. disturbing!!! the pedi-dude was Vietnamese (Tai is Chinese), and he had hair (Tai shaves his head), but some of his features were Tai-ish. i was gonna try to take a photo of him while he was working on me but it would've been too obvious and a tad bit creepy on my part. it was already weird to think of a guy working on my toes. not sure why that is. i think i equate manly-dudes working on women's toes as being intimate. although that chinese peanut-breath dude in LA doesn't count as he beat me up...there was pain involved and not good pain. have i told that story? i guess i should for the sake of other people's safety as they don't wanna go to this "massage" parlor. story to come soon.....
anyway, my dude did an incredible job and had great hands. he did seem to work on my legs a little longer than necessary but it wasn't the painful massage that seems to be the norm nowadays. it felt really good........almost too good. ;-D
i'd totally recommend him and may return in a few months. i just gotta not look at him or i'll keep giggling at the thought of bald, manly, kick@ss Tai doing toenails creating pretty little flowers designs. if he and his wife end up having a girl next March...he may have a to resort to doing her nails as these places aren't cheap. start practicing on your wife, Tai!
this place also had little massage chairs in animal shapes for kids. there was a place for the feet and they got their own little Vizio DVD player. i'm gonna request the giraffe chair next time.
the lady next to me also had a dude working on her but he was an old dude -- grandpa-san...or whatever the Vietnamese equivalent is to that phrase. the lady had this huge wound on her foot from a horse stepping on her. talk about ewwww!!! why would you get a foot spa with a huge wound on your friggin' foot. no band-aid or anything. i was ready to urp when i saw it after it was soaking in the bath for a bit. do i need to describe the white filmy top layer of the wound? i won't mention how mushy it looked. was real glad her dude was wearing gloves. her dude was saying he could put a band-aid on it and i was "yeah...do that."
and her feet were strange looking. i made a comment about how her foot still looks all swollen from the horse stepping on it and she informed me that was the wrong foot.
ooops. foot in mouth. i started to feel bad by my faux pas but she then asked her guy if he could do a design on her toes that would slim-up her feet. the guy just looked at her. it was pretty funny as his face was totally deadpan. even my guy stopped what he was doing to look at this kook. slim...down...her...feet. wtf? is this what's next for celebrity doctors?