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Nail salon denies service to woman they said was 'too big' to get pedicure (video)
Yahoo Lifestyle ^ | 9/9/2019 | Hope Schreiber

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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To: simpson96

She’s gone beyond pear-shaped to coconut-shaped.


61 posted on 09/16/2019 8:36:46 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: trisham

I thought it was perfect, we all grabbed lunch there from time to time, it was literally next door in the same building, nice familiar neutral turf. A fancier place wouldn’t have been as comfortable.

He saw the look of surprise on my face as the chair cracked change to a smirk on the way down, followed by “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”

The stuff of a corporate legend...


62 posted on 09/16/2019 8:39:36 AM PDT by null and void (<---powered by warm sunshine and gentle breezes and unicorn farts, don't forget the unicorn farts!)
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To: null and void

You’re famous. :)


63 posted on 09/16/2019 8:41:23 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Hey, there’s an idea: maybe the salon can install one of those slings they use to move the whales from tank to tank. Probably need to reinforce the ceiling joists first, or erect some type of truss system.


64 posted on 09/16/2019 8:45:39 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: null and void

That’s actually pretty clever. With her size, she could make a decent offensive guard.


65 posted on 09/16/2019 8:52:20 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: simpson96

The eyelashes got me.


66 posted on 09/16/2019 9:36:02 AM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: Jane Long

I had a similar experience. I was behind two young women with several children in tow who were buying things with their SNAP cards and food stamps. SNAP takes a long time, since the cashier has to note and check off every purchase on a list. When I saw that, I moved to another line. Later, I saw them in the parking lot getting into a new Cadillac Escalade. They were also well-dressed, manicured and talking on IPhones. My tax dollars at work.


67 posted on 09/16/2019 9:54:33 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: simpson96

And so begins the rude remarks from FR fat haters...


68 posted on 09/16/2019 9:56:28 AM PDT by bgill
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To: eyeamok
Can’t she go to Earl Scheib?

I had a 1953 Olds convertible painted robin's egg blue by Earl Scheib in 1962 for $29.95.

The paint job lasted for a year without peeling or pitting.

I only paid $ 300 for the car {which we referred to as a Rolls/Hardly, it rolls down one hill and hardly makes the next up hill}.

But, back in those days, even a junker rag top was a chick magnet.

69 posted on 09/16/2019 10:41:50 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: Polyxene

Really sickening, isn’t it?

I hope all of the welfare rolls get cleaned up, after Trump wins, in 2020.

Welfare should NOT be a career!!

Only a TEMPORARY hand UP.


70 posted on 09/16/2019 10:49:58 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bgill
😂
71 posted on 09/16/2019 10:53:29 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Nifster

If the chair don’t fit,
Take a big …


72 posted on 09/16/2019 10:56:46 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: bgill

Wah ...


73 posted on 09/16/2019 11:06:56 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: simpson96

Well, from what I can see, she is too big.

What 2 said


74 posted on 09/16/2019 11:19:18 AM PDT by democratsaremyenemy (Streepisacreep)
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To: trisham

She’s a perfect model....for a shipbuilder.....


75 posted on 09/17/2019 9:17:52 AM PDT by slapshot ( Speaker Ryan was a sober and less tan version of John Boehner)
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