what a girl wants vs. what a girl gets
I've always wanted to try blonde hair, and have never been able to achieve it for one reason or another (remember the orange and pink hair debacle of Korea?). I decided that I would finally go to a salon and have a professional do it. Afterall, who'd be a better authority on how to dye a brown head blonde than someone in Southern California? Unfortunately, the lady I went to loved my natural color so much (she called over everyone in the place to ooh and ahh over it) that she didn't want to "ruin" it, and instead put blonde STREAKS in it. Little did I know this was going on until my sister came in and asked "I thought you were going to dye it all blonde?" Yeah, I thought so too, but apparently not so much. I'm glad Ms. Colorist adored my au naturale-ness; I rather dig it too. But what ever happened to "the customer is always right"? Working in Customer Service, I know that's not always the case, but when it comes to stuff like this, that idiom should hold true... And before you ask, yes, i did pay for it. I'm a big weenie when it comes to that.

Irony settles in when I realize that things that I truly want never seem to come through for me in quite the satisfactory way, but things I can subtley suggest about wanting happen for me = no problem. Tatoeba (for example), I needed to know what kind of oil to use for upkeep of my karate bo, so I resourcefully marched down the street to an antiques shop approximately 50 steps from my front door, bo in hand, and asked the muscle-y men inside. 3 of them sprung to my rescue, one of them swiftly took the bo from me, and in about 30 seconds I was walking back down the street with a newly oiled bo in my hand. Now that's service. Today I was able to convince the construction men to sneak into our department and repaint the walls where we got a little rambunctious with our rolly chairs. They didn't have to do it, but they did.

Now if only I could find a hair-person to bend to my whim like this. But my guess is they wouldn't be operating under the same motivation, if you know what i mean...