golfers...

my day yesterday was quite interesting. with the weather outside being overcast, i really didn't want to go into work. i wanted to go back to bed. but alas, i got myself up and dressed and all off to work. i decided to stop in at maverick and get a mtn dew live wire (the best ever cause its orange with caffeine). needless to say, i almost guzzled the whole thing on my 30 ish min drive to work. *i haven't had soda for almost a month too, so i was really not wanting to work*
i got to work, and yippee, had clients... no "on call" today. i hate on call cause i don't get paid. i just sit and wait to get called in. but i guess if i just sit there, i don't get paid either. whichever way, i have to have clients to get money.
so both of the bosses were there and they were both in bad moods...really bad moods. it was kinda funny. cause they should be stressing about the place and all the "behind the scenes" stuff going on. (they had 5 therapists leave in less than 2 weeks, and might have 4 more walking out in the next 2 weeks and they so far had only hired me to replace all the ones who left) well, i looked at the screen that tells us when and who our clients are, and low and behold, there is a new therapist. she comes in after me so i won't get to really meet her until after my first 2 clients, unless i get more... which i did.
well, the newest therapist was late. and she was storing her extra linens in one of the couples rooms. and i don't know if she washed after each session cause i only saw her waiting right outside the door each time i was in the hall waiting for my clients. and i watched her walk in on a client disrobing cause she didn't give them enough time before she just walked in. needless to say, i hope her day today will be better or she won't be having this job too much longer. she already had 2 clients complain against her too. poor thing. but she gave me weird vibes. i just don't know if it was first day jitters, but i wasn't like that on my first day. yes it was a little crazy, but i was also on time and watched everyone else in the hall and such.
so on to my clients. boy oh boy.... all but 1 were yappy. every single one of them wanted to talk. so i just let them. it was a little weird cause most people fall asleep, but not these ones. all of them were in because they have a golf tournament tomorrow (today) that they need to relax and work out the sore muscles from practicing on the green. i felt like i was a birthing coach too cause i had to keep telling my clients to breathe slowly in through the nose and out through the mouth so i can work a little deeper. breathe, breathe.
one client was talking about opening his own spa. he offered me a job when it is finished. it was kinda funny cause he was talking and talking and the suddenly snoring. it was funny, but it was also a relief. my hands worked magic. yes! so after i got done with that client, he was still in la la land and took his time coming out of the room, but it was ok cause it gave me a chance to get a business card (massage envy's but i wrote my name & number on it) so he can call me when the spa opens.
and my next 2 clients were also golfers, and wouldn't stop talking. they didn't fall asleep though. but the funniest was my 77 year old man. he was wanting a deeper massage, but then found out he didn't really like deep. so i switched to a more swedish massage style. he asked me what the strokes were called. so i was telling him as i was working the muscles. this is petrissage, this is effleurage, this is feathering, this is petrissage again. he would tell me oh yeah i like that one or oh not so much on that one. and when i had him turn over he was almost in la la land.
well, then i finished working his legs, and moved up to his shoulders and neck. he then opened his eyes and said to me "i don't know how to put this, and don't take it wrong, cause i don't know how else to put it, but that feathering stroke is, well, kinda turning me on. i think i am going to ask my wife if she wants to get in the whirlpool with me when we get home."
HOLY CRAP!!! what do you do with that?! it took me by surprise and all i could say was "ok" but my brain was screaming "la la la la la, too much information, i don't want to know that! just shut up and enjoy your massage! la la la la la" he did leave me a pretty good tip, and i think they might join and become frequent clients. who knows. i just hope he is silent the next time he comes in for a massage so i don't throw up on him.
thank goodness for my last client who was silent. she wasn't a golfer though. oh, and i forgot cause a lot happened at work yesterday... but the new girl has a uniform. i still don't. so i had to give the one boss crap for it. he didn't take it well. and it wasn't until he realized i was totally joking, that he tried to make up for it and said that i looked professional and beautiful in all black. what a jerk, but whatever. he is just stressed and needs to learn how to manage things a little better cause he is going to find himself without therapists soon if things keep on the way they are. oh and they are completely redoing the shirts, so that's why i don't have a massage envy shirt yet. and that was my work day. CRAZY!