The Thief

I have never you been a fan of doing hair at home.  Kitchen hairstyling as it’s called is inconvenient unless have a set up with sink and chair etc.  I do not.  But that hasn’t stopped me.
Enter Heather my then next door neighbor.  Heather had 2 children worked and never had time to get her hair done.   She asked if I could do her hair, I said sure.   She had dark blonde hair highlights and haircut and blow dry $100. Very fair considering she did not have to spend money on gas, my back would be killing me after without the aid of a hydraulic chair and there was the business of bending ever the sink. Ouch.  Not to mention my time is worth something.
It was November a week before thanksgiving and Heather made an appointment to have her hair done so it would be fresh for the holidays.  No problem.  I got everything ready and I waited.  Her appointment was for 1:00. By 3:00 I called now pretty pissed off.  
“HI Heather”
“OH hi”
“I just need to know if you’re still coming to get your hair done”
“OH yeah, I forgot.  I’ll be right over”
I could tell something wasn’t right. I just had a feeling in the pit of my stomach.  I shrugged it off and moved on.
She came over I did her hair highlights cut blow out same as always.  When I was all finished she said   “oh I went shopping this morning and spent all my money.”  “Ok if I pay you tomorrow?”
The proper thing would have been for her to ask me that BEFORE I did her hair!!  At least I would have had a choice.  What was I supposed to say??
“Sure. No worries.”
Tomorrows came and went and still no payment.  One week two weeks.  Seeing her just about every day smiling and waving at me was making my blood boil.  I asked my two close friends and my mother what I should do.
My mom and my friend Kay said “just let it go, what goes around comes around.”
My friend J who is kind of well, let’s just say very no nonsense said.  “If I were you I would park a chair right in the direction of her house and stare that bitch down for a few days”.  Then knock on her door and demand your money!!”   
I’m not good at confrontation.  Maybe she really didn’t have the money.  Still she should have said something before I did her hair.  I spoke to my husband about it. 
“Do you want me to go over there?”
“No!”
“They have the money Kate.” 
He reminded me that Heathers husband played golf.  “I’ve seen his golf clubs, they’re not cheap and golf is not a cheap hobby.”
Finally I did the only thing that seemed right.  We sold our house and moved.
Relax, we were planning to move long before I was robbed (the technical term is theft of services).
I was happy to be gone from the area.  We moved in to a nicer house in a much better neighborhood.
A week before we moved Heather pulled up in a brand new conversion van.  Starting retail $35,000.
I hope I never see her again.

The Toilet Paper Dildo

She was so beautiful.  I was a little intimidated, and it takes a lot to intimidate me but I ignored that inner voice that was telling me she was going to be a megabitch and moved on. 
Hello I’m Kate nice to meet you.
She smiled and shook my hand.  We walked over to my chair.  In my experience very beautiful women come in two flavors:  nice and normal or evil psycho.  To my happy surprise she was not the latter.  Jane was a wife and mother of four.  She was going out with her husband for her birthday.  She just had her makeup done and now it was time for hair, my department.
Jane had an exotic look.  You really couldn’t tell what her background was but you could tell that she was multi ethnic.  She had large almond shaped eyes, full lips, and long curly hair perfect for putting up for the festivities of the night.  Jane was so excited just to get out for the night a hard working woman just grateful for someone to be taking care of her for a change. 
I asked the dreaded question.  So, what do you do?
This question can bite you in the ass if the answer is.  I’m a hairdresser too!  And sometimes you’ll get yeah I’m a hairdresser so you better do a good job response.  (Yes I have had asshole customers say that to me verbatim).
Hot damn!  Jane worked in a women’s prison!  What!?  This woman was no joke.   I am amazed at people that work in such places.  I would be terrified.  I have met people before that work in the prison system and some have told me they would never work in a women’s prison.  Women are nasty. I’ve heard stories of guards having used tampons and menstrual blood hurled at them.  She told me how jaded she was.  Jane started out in a juvenile correctional facility.  She would deal with 12 year olds who raped their 5 year old sister because their dad raped them.  “I don’t trust anyone with my children”.  Yeah I was thinking I don’t blame you we live in a sick world.
Jane said there was never a dull moment at work.  I could only imagine.  A few years ago almost all the women in the section became ill.  They came down with “Trich”.   Trichomonas is a very treatable S.T.D. characterized by itching, burning and redness of the genitals.  Wonderful, the doctors couldn’t figure out how so many inmates had contracted the infection.   Then they did… a toilet paper dildo.  What?!  One of the inmates made a dildo out of toilet paper.  Just like paper mache they would wet and mold and wet and mold until they created this masterpiece.  The problem was they were all sharing in its use.   Hence the outbreak.  Just when I thought I had heard everything, who knew you could make a sex toy out of toilet paper.  I will stick to my Rabbit, and do my best to stay out of prison.