customer of the week

the public continues providing material without being asked. #

A woman today asked me whether doing a longer session would make her `”more tanned immediately.”` I explained that longer isn’t automatically better and that she should follow the proper timing. She looked at me as though I were personally withholding summer from her. Then she asked essentially the same question using slightly different words. I answered again. Then she asked a third version and I suddenly realised she wasn’t actually asking for information. She was shopping for permission.

This happens all the time. People ask a question, receive an answer they don’t like, then rotate the question slightly in the hope that somewhere behind the counter I have a secret second set of physical laws.

There are lovely ones too. One older woman always comes in beautifully dressed, always says hello properly, never rushes me and somehow remembers things I’ve mentioned. Today she asked, `”And the boyfriend?”` Yuri has never met this woman and is apparently now a recurring character in her life. I told him later and he said to tell her he’s fine.

So tomorrow I may be giving relationship updates to a woman in a bathrobe.

Work is strange.

Remember me, Eclipse.