My places.
One of the many things I do not enjoy about moving to a new place is having to find "your places" again. You know what I'm talking about. Your grocery store, your cleaners, your haircut place, all those things that take forever to find and once you do, you hold on to them for dear life. You recommend your cleaners to all your friends as THE BEST cleaners in town. You give out your stylist's name and business card to everyone you meet telling them you got the BEST haircut there. It's good to have "your places."
I forgot how important it was to have that until today. I had to get a haircut and I needed to drop some clothes off at the cleaners. Simple enough task. Someone recommended a cleaners close to my gym so I went to check it out this morning. "$1.85 cleaners." Awesome I thought. Within my budget. I entered the cleaners to witness the following:
1. My boss having a difficult time with trying to communicate with the employees. It appears he dropped off some suits to be cleaned and upon pick-up, noticed a sour smell. He asked them to be re-cleaned and after two unsuccesful promise pick-up dates, he came back this morning to pick up the suit jacket he needed for his meeting with donors. The cleaners could not find the suit jacket. Oh well, they said, sorry. (NOTE: this is not what they actually said since they did not speak English but if body language could speak, this is what it would have said). SORRY??? WTF??? They encouraged my boss to change his suit and wear one that they could find in the store. Not ok with that.
2. A woman walked into the cleaners complaining her clothes smelled terrible after she picked them up.
On that note, I left. I didn't need smelly clothes. Or lost clothes for that matter. I found another cleaners that charged $4.00 to clean my pants. Not what I was hoping for but hopefully they won't smell!
Haircut: Upon the recommendation of Matt, went to Bella salon for my haircut. Not only do they not shampoo you (apparently the $22 haircut doesn't come with a shampoo-strike 1) but the woman also was not familiar with the use of clippers (strike 2). She said she never uses them on her clients. She spent 40 minutes trying to cut and clean up my hair and even had to ask another stylist to come over and help her (strike 3). I will not be returning to Bella.
I miss Sparkle Cleaners. I miss Dabbles. I miss my places.
I forgot how important it was to have that until today. I had to get a haircut and I needed to drop some clothes off at the cleaners. Simple enough task. Someone recommended a cleaners close to my gym so I went to check it out this morning. "$1.85 cleaners." Awesome I thought. Within my budget. I entered the cleaners to witness the following:
1. My boss having a difficult time with trying to communicate with the employees. It appears he dropped off some suits to be cleaned and upon pick-up, noticed a sour smell. He asked them to be re-cleaned and after two unsuccesful promise pick-up dates, he came back this morning to pick up the suit jacket he needed for his meeting with donors. The cleaners could not find the suit jacket. Oh well, they said, sorry. (NOTE: this is not what they actually said since they did not speak English but if body language could speak, this is what it would have said). SORRY??? WTF??? They encouraged my boss to change his suit and wear one that they could find in the store. Not ok with that.
2. A woman walked into the cleaners complaining her clothes smelled terrible after she picked them up.
On that note, I left. I didn't need smelly clothes. Or lost clothes for that matter. I found another cleaners that charged $4.00 to clean my pants. Not what I was hoping for but hopefully they won't smell!
Haircut: Upon the recommendation of Matt, went to Bella salon for my haircut. Not only do they not shampoo you (apparently the $22 haircut doesn't come with a shampoo-strike 1) but the woman also was not familiar with the use of clippers (strike 2). She said she never uses them on her clients. She spent 40 minutes trying to cut and clean up my hair and even had to ask another stylist to come over and help her (strike 3). I will not be returning to Bella.
I miss Sparkle Cleaners. I miss Dabbles. I miss my places.
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