HotTexasCowboy
Star
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2011
So, I remember the night my life changed as being at the end of a fairly ordinary day.
I got home to my crappy little two and a half room apartment about seven. Madame Bitch, as I called her in my mind, the Salon manager, had me stay late to re-do the nails of a particularly demanding older woman. She kept berating me for getting the wrong color, when she picked it out, for pity sakes. And then she tipped me a lousy three bucks, which was even more insulting than no tip at all. It meant she didn’t ‘forget’ the tip, she just made it small to rub it in. Then I had to take the late bus, (there went my tip) so my ‘dinner’ was a couple of old pieces of reheated pizza. Yippee for my life of independence.
I remember sitting at a card table with some reruns of a crime show on my tv. Ronnie, girl, for this you dropped out of school? I thought I had it all figured out back then. Classes were boring and pointless, and what was I going to do with a Sociology degree anyway. I should be out in the real world, working, making the big bucks and finding a hot guy or something, so I quit. I figured: make-up, manicures, pedicures, I could do that and the ones I’d ever used charged a bundle. Except I didn’t realize there were kickbacks to the salon manager, and some of them treated you like shit. This is ridiculous, I was thinking, turning off the tube, putting on the radio, and sitting with a glass of cheap wine feeling sorry for myself. OK, this is it! I'm 24 years old with my whole fucking life ahead of me. I decided right then and there to turn it all around. I was going back to college, get a degree, and find a real career. With a renewed burst of energy, I redirected my life from that moment.
Except that didn’t happen, none of it. I just sat there feeling sorry for myself, but knowing I’d be back at the salon in the morning. So, sometimes things happen you never really planned on and had no control over…
I got home to my crappy little two and a half room apartment about seven. Madame Bitch, as I called her in my mind, the Salon manager, had me stay late to re-do the nails of a particularly demanding older woman. She kept berating me for getting the wrong color, when she picked it out, for pity sakes. And then she tipped me a lousy three bucks, which was even more insulting than no tip at all. It meant she didn’t ‘forget’ the tip, she just made it small to rub it in. Then I had to take the late bus, (there went my tip) so my ‘dinner’ was a couple of old pieces of reheated pizza. Yippee for my life of independence.
I remember sitting at a card table with some reruns of a crime show on my tv. Ronnie, girl, for this you dropped out of school? I thought I had it all figured out back then. Classes were boring and pointless, and what was I going to do with a Sociology degree anyway. I should be out in the real world, working, making the big bucks and finding a hot guy or something, so I quit. I figured: make-up, manicures, pedicures, I could do that and the ones I’d ever used charged a bundle. Except I didn’t realize there were kickbacks to the salon manager, and some of them treated you like shit. This is ridiculous, I was thinking, turning off the tube, putting on the radio, and sitting with a glass of cheap wine feeling sorry for myself. OK, this is it! I'm 24 years old with my whole fucking life ahead of me. I decided right then and there to turn it all around. I was going back to college, get a degree, and find a real career. With a renewed burst of energy, I redirected my life from that moment.
Except that didn’t happen, none of it. I just sat there feeling sorry for myself, but knowing I’d be back at the salon in the morning. So, sometimes things happen you never really planned on and had no control over…