On blogging and half a facial!

I am an introvert. I have always found it very difficult to express my thoughts and opinions to people I don’t know. Before I started blogging, I used to wonder if blogging anonymously would help me open up. After all, I wanted to communicate with all you wonderful people whose blogs I read regularly. It took me a long time to get on the blogosphere and I still can’t get myself to talk about serious issues like this or this, though I have progressed from keeping my opinions to myself to at least expressing them mildly in comments to other people’s posts. Hopefully someday, I’ll be able to write about what matters. Until then it will be about other “important things” like this one….

“Is this Mrs. T?” asked the lady on the other end of the phone.
“Yes.”
“Mrs. T, I am glad to inform you that you have won a free facial and a gift certificate for some free products from our company. Would you like to schedule it now?”
A free facial! Vow! How did I get so lucky? Now I have never won anything unless you count a single company coaster that I won in a drawing at the last division meeting. So for a minute I was excited. Then I remembered that sometime around mother’s day this company’s rep and made us fill out our names and addresses at my daughter’s day care. I knew that this was a sales gimmick but I’m a sucker for free stuff. So I scheduled an appointment and then rescheduled it and so on until the lady finally came home yesterday. I work from home once a week and I use my lunch hour that day for errands, blogging etc. Yesterday, I decided that I’d drop the errands, ignore your blogs and allow myself to be pampered instead.

The lady showed up fifteen minutes late, then blamed it on traffic. Yeah Right! I know how crazy the traffic can get on a Wednesday afternoon in a purely residential area, especially with schools out. Anyway, she decided that we would sit at the breakfast table and pulled out a plastic tray from her bag. She took a drop (literally!) each of a cleanser, a moisturizer, a toner and a couple of other things and put them on the tray. She then told me to go ahead and apply the products to only the right side of my face.
“Why just one side?”
“Because I want to show you the difference it makes”
Ok. I thought. First we’ll apply it to one side and then to the other.
After applying all the products step by step to the right side of my face, she handed me a mirror.
“Do you see any difference?”
I was squinting my eyes hard trying to search for any difference.
Sensing that she may not get the answer that she was looking for, she immediately said,
“See I can see this side looks brighter. Don’t you agree?”
Being a pushover that I am (which the lady had shrewdly observed ) I nodded.
“Ok now, I’ll show you some hand products”
“What about the other side? Can I apply the remaining products (read the other half a drop of each product) on the left hand side of my face?”
She just smiled and said, “ May be you can apply the moisturizer”
Would it have killed her to let me use the remaining products on the tray, especially since she had promised a free facial and this is nowhere close to a facial? She should have just called it product sampling or half a product sampling. Needless to say she did not get any business from me.

Anyway, if you are in the Atlanta area and if you run into a (young)woman with right side of her face looking brighter than the left side, come say hello to Naina.