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Snip cut hair salon11/25/2023 ![]() She told her that my Egyptian Arabic is different from their Lebanese Arabic. So, I approached her and asked “what’s so funny?” My co-worker kept laughing and headed to the customer to apologize on my behalf. I heard my Lebanese co-worker behind me, in a fit of giggles. She then asked, “why are you going to iron it?” I was very confused. So when I came to ask the customer what she wanted to do with her hair, I asked “would you like me to blow dry your hair or iron it?” She then turned to me, flabbergasted and asked “how are you going to iron it?” She seemed very upset. This was a few years back, so instead of an electric hair straightener, we used to heat iron and use it to straighten our client’s hair. While working at a hair salon In Dubai, I had a customer from Lebanon. He said it was all a prank and that he told the customer to play along the entire time. So, here we are, everyone is cracking up and their clothes are dripping wet and in comes a hairdresser called Ahmed, laughing hysterically. So, he began spraying some of the employees as well. He snatched the water hose and began spraying at the customer while saying “see, the water is hot!.” The entire hair salon, with its customers and employees, began laughing. All of a sudden Adam reached a breaking point. ![]() Then, she again blurted out “no, this is still not hot.” So, he replied, “the water is hot.” This kept going on for a while and their volume kept getting higher and higher. this water is cold!” So he replied, “the water Is hot.” Then he continued washing her hair. At that exact moment, the customer said “no, I want you to use hot water. As she placed her head back on the backwash chair, he began to wash her hair. One day, Adam was assigned to wash the hair of one of our regular customers. He was Nigerian and his Arabic wasn’t that good so there were many situations when he would misunderstand a customer and vice versa. In my head, I was like “if I just dyed her hair any shade of red, this whole episode could have been avoided.”Īt the hair salon, we had a male assistant called Adam. Yet, once she took a look at herself in the mirror, tears started streaming down her face and she gave me a huge hug. It’s important to know that it was not the color she wanted. He told me of a dye color to use on her hair. I wanted this situation to be over with, so I went to my boss, told him the whole situation. They both kept going back and forth as to who is right about the color for a whole half an hour. However, in response, the girl said, “no, it was definitely burgundy red!” I paused then jokingly asked the friend, “were you with your friend in the same dream or what?” The friend said no. When I asked her what color they used to dye her hair in the dream, her friend responded on her behalf and said it was copper red. ![]() So today, she wanted to literally turn her dream into a reality. I came over to her and she said that last night she dreamt that she went to a hair salon where she dyed her hair red and cut it degrade style. ![]() One day, there was a customer standing with her friend. To everyone’s surprise, that very man was in fact married to both of them. Upon entering the salon, the husband abruptly stopped, his eyes widened as he looked at both the women standing together. With only a credit card in her purse, when the cheerful customer realized the salon only accepts cash, she called her husband to come pay for her. They both continued to chat until their hair was done and then they headed to the cashier to pay. Hence why she came to the salon to let out some steam and do her hair. In comparison, the grumpy customer said she had been married for 10 years and just had a big fight with her husband. The other grumpy customer scoffed and said “you must be a new bride” which she in fact was, having only been married for 2 years now. One was in a sour mood while the other was feeling festive because it was her wedding anniversary and even asked us if we can put on cheerful music. At the salon, two customers were seated together. ![]()
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