Escape from the Day Spa
Our hair is neatly coiffed and our fingernails are lacquered,
but they’ve been at us for hours and, frankly, I am knackered.
They’ve elevated eyebrows and plucked chin hairs at random.
Two people worked an hour, massaging me in tandem.
This day trip to the beauty spa once seemed a good idea,
but I’ve found it as annoying as a junket to Ikea.
Everything goes on and on. There simply is too much.
First there’s this and this and this and then there’s such and such.
And though it’s meant to calm me, I find I’m feeling goaded.
When it comes to things and services, I’m simply overloaded.
“I know” I tell my friend, “I should be finding it relaxing,
but I feel the opposite. I find the process taxing!”
I need to steer us out of here before she finds another
way for them to soak us or to pluck or curl or smother.
Before this spa day started, she’d assured me it was fun,
but now its time for me to declare that it is done!!!
I need a gin and tonic and perhaps a wild dance
to loosen all the hairpins and give my hair a chance
to escape the close confinement of gel and goop and spray.
I’m tense with relaxation. I need wildness in my day!
Give me a seedy roadhouse and some honky tonk guitar.
Some cowboys with their cowboy boots propped up against the bar.
Some line dances and two-steps to work up a little sweat,
and I’ll be about as relaxed as I’m ever going to get.
jdb photo of the Mint Bar, Sheridan, Wyoming
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Prompt words today are trip, knackered, random, elevate and steer.
Good one. Yeah sometimes these spa days take too long.
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I’ve never actually had an all day spa day. I love foot and leg and arm and neck massages but have someone come to my house once a week for it. We are soooo spoiled in Mexico. I don’t like anything that is too fancy. Prefer an everyday atmosphere in hotels, restaurants and massage sites.
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I go monthly for a dye and mani padi. But the girls take ages and I get tired waiting for them to finish.
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We went to an appt. a few months ago that was agony! I swear it took them 20 minutes just to wash my hair. I never went back.
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Oh yes they are like that. I guess they think that they are pampering us.
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I’m lucky if I manage to stay for an hour! I’ve better things to do with my time. Great poem though đŸ˜€
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Loved it! I would not relax at a spa. I was given a massage certificate and hated the idea. I’m not into the dark incensed zen atmosphere I guess. I used to get my nails done when I worked as a jewelry clerk but never again.đŸ˜³đŸ˜€
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I do like mani/pedis but the gals I go to are fast. In and out in an hour. Haven’t been for a few months and it shows.
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To each his/her own, I suppose. I go for a facial four times a year. That takes an hour, and then I am off to a pool and a couple of mojitos. That’s what I call a relaxing day at a spa.
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That sounds perfect if I could substitute a gin and tonic, Dolly.
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Anything with a goodly amount of alcohol in it will do, Judy!
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Ah yes. Gin itself is a tonic of sorts.
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Yep
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Fabulous. Love this.
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