Posted on 09/16/2019 6:31:10 AM PDT by simpson96
Tina Lewis, who had visited the Rose Nails salon a week prior to the incident to get her eyelashes done, had returned to receive a pedicure. Instead, she was told by an employee, Marie Bui, that the salon chairs were not big enough for her to sit in. Lewis, who gets her nails done every two weeks, has never had an experience like this before(snip)
"I was like, 'Can I get a pedicure? And what chair do I sit in?' And [the employee] was like, the chairs were not big enough for me to sit in. And I was like, 'Are you serious? So you’re saying that I'm too big to sit in a chair?'" Lewis said.
Bui admitted that she informed Lewis she would not be able to get a pedicure due to her size.
"I said, 'I'm sorry I cannot serve you because my spa chair is very small,'" Bui said, according to ABC7 Chicago. Bui adding that she did not intend to sound mean or rude, but claims that another customer had damaged one of the salon chairs, and Bui believed it was caused by that person's weight.
(snip)the salon owner said that they had the right to deny service to Lewis, adding that the chairs cost hundreds of dollars and they are unable to afford repairs to damaged chairs.
“Someone needs to go down there and let them know that if they do have [weight] requirements, that they need to be posted on the door,” Lewis said.
Lewis said that the employees at the salon are lucky that they told her this, and not a woman who may have low self-esteem. Despite remaining confident in herself, the interaction left Lewis shocked.
"It was... very disrespectful,” Lewis said. “To me, I felt like it was discrimination."
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As if she wouldn’t have a problem with that. Maybe install a turnstile you have to fit through to get to the chairs — must be this not-fat to get a pedicure.
She should go get her nails clipped at a large-animal vet.
Salon chairs have weight limits.
A bariatric chair, one that will safely seat a morbidly obese client, can cost a lot more money.
The salon might not be able to afford the cost.
I didn’t have to look........but I did.................I was right......................again................
Does this chair make me look fat?
LOL, that takes me back a few years when my granddaughter was about 4. We were having a family dinner at my mother-in-laws house. His sister-in-law was at least 350 pounds if not bigger. She only got up from the couch long enough to waddle to the kitchen and fill another plate. After her third trip to the kitchen she came back and sat next to my granddaughter. Ashley looked over at her and said "Fritzi, you're fat". I couldn't even speak for trying not to laugh because kids need to know that calling people fat in public isn't nice. I was also struck dumb from shock. I couldn't hold back any longer though when a few seconds later Ashley turned to her again and said "In fact Fritzi, you are too fat for this couch". That one sent me running for the door to let her mother (my daughter) take care of it. 😁 It didn't get any better when I got outside and her husband, my husband's brother, asked what I happened and I told him. All he said was "good for her" and I cracked up again.
Ashley did learn better manners in a hurry when my daughter found out about it but kids are honest if nothing else.
The nail shop couldn’t refer Jumbo to a nearby farrier?
Based upon that photo it looks like they should name it
“The Big Butt Salon”
Did you notice this is posted in Chat before commenting?
Question: how could this behemoth ever SEE her pedicure, unless she's sitting down? And how would she ever get out of the salon chair by herself? Maybe the massage chair at the salon has a toaster pop-up setting for people of great weight?
“Someone needs to go down there and let them know that if they do have [weight] requirements, that they need to be posted on the door,” Lewis said.
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I agree with this statement, and the nail salon refusing her service.
In before the Al Bundy jokes.
You eat more shrimp den whale!
I’m guessing 500+. She should be seeing a doctor.
Yes. A protected class person was denied service.
That's today's news.
Tomorrow's news is a herd of angry black women rioting in the streets.
It will be a bit like The artilleryman imagined the Martians in The War of The Worlds:
I reckon the Martians'll open their beautiful eyes! Can't you see them, man? Can't you see them hurrying, hurrying--puffing and blowing and hooting to their other mechanical affairs?
I once worked with a woman who, on her first day, sat down at her desk and the chair collapsed under her. The company had to order a special chair for her. I wonder if she’s still alive.
Fwee Wirrie!
Total insanity.
They should have been able to find a solution, apparently the woman customer was there before.
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