Yesterday I did two things for the very first time. I had my eyebrows threaded and I listened to NPR radio.
I’d found some aberrant hairs amongst my eyebrows. One hair actually covers the full expanse of my brow. A friend at work said I ought to try threading. I pictured someone carefully interlocking my unruly hairs to make a nice neat threaded border over my eye.
Not so I found out. Someone, usually a stern looking woman, takes a large spool in one hand, unravels a few feet of the cotton thread, zigzags a strand back and forth, and places one end in her mouth. It’s not a typical beauty salon. Not chatty and fun. It’s a quiet place with half the salon’s occupants chomping down on a wad of thread and the other half pulling the skin around their brows taunt while biting their lower lip (my guess to distract them from writhing in pain). Then the hushed woman spins the long strands of thread in the air until it twists together. I remember my mom performing that same task with a big button and making a spinning pull toy for my kids.
I never knew thread could be used as a weapon. The lady in black lassoed those fringe hairs and yanked her twisted thread in every angle across my brow, pulling those ornery disobedient hairs out. Her hands moved so fast I wasn’t sure which end the thread was moving from. I’m hoping it wasn’t from the end secured between her teeth. My furry friends were no more.
As long as I was experimenting with the unknown, still stinging from my new experience, I turned on NPR radio on the way home. I don’t even know what NPR stands for, but Coco, the Green Peace daughter, suggested I try it. I thought it would make me hip. And I’m so glad I did. If I hadn’t listened, I would never have known that today Jim Morrison was pardoned for exposing himself forty years ago in Florida.
Now I have an open mind and an open space over the bridge of my nose. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
P.S. I did my other new thing and texted Coco that I’d listened to her channel. She texted back that it made her smile.
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I LOVED this, every time I read your blog I have such a visual and I am NOT a very visual person. I feels like I’m right there with you. Thanks for sharing and bringing laughter to my day!!!!
I’m glad you told us! I thought this was supposed to be painless! Very good story!~
2nd best story yet.
two things:
1. We want to see picture of your new brow(s). Will we recognize you?
b. NPR sucks! Unless you are that much into Celtic Fiddle Music from the 1300′s as performed by Kelly O’Reilly and the Wee Bogmen, or that malarkey about Global warming and how, if we shut down all industry in America and all move into hogans the planet will be saved.
It’s National Public Radio- in case you weren’t joking about not knowing what NPR stood for. I think Garrison Keiller has/had a show on it you’d like. He’s pretty funny himself.