Irish-Persian Connection! (A long one)

So I was getting my regular massage done and my massage therapist asks me where I get my eyebrows done?

Now this is significant cause if you are a brown girl reading this or know a brown girl - you just about know how difficult it is to find a good threading lady - that sculpts your eyebrows into your desired shape. Yes, I am talking about that ancient Indian art of using nothing but a thread to perfect your brows! And yes, these threading ladies are difficult to find. Ask my friend Violet who recently moved to UK and as far as I know has yet to find that lady. She there somewhere...in Sheffield with her thread ready in hand waiting for my friend to find her. Hang in there, dear friend!

Anyways, I tell my massage therapist, lets call her - Rhea (my fav name) - that I usually see the crazy persian lady. Yes, she is crazy but not crazy in koo-koo crazy - but crazy because of the following reasons:

a) I have been seeing her for about 2 years now and every single time - I have called her - she has asked me in a middle-eastern accent - "Could you come now?". The emphasis is on the 'now'. As in now - damn it - not 10 minutes from now but now. You might as well call her from outside her salon - cause she expects you there within 5 minutes of the call!

b) here is where the irish-persian connection comes in from the title of the thread. Her salon is called Delany's Family Hair Kare. This is the most funny part to me. Why is this woman, clearly the owner, named her salon after an Irish last name? And that too decided to spell 'care' with a 'K'. So everytime I call she or her husband answer again in a middle-eastern accent - 'Delany's'. It always takes me a few seconds to realize what I am doing.

c) Her husband: a very nice retired man hangs out at the salon all day. What does he do? He watchs TV all day. Yes, all day. They have a TV - that is always playing some arabic serial - and he watches it all day long. He wont talk to you, wont bother you - he is guy sitting in the corner watching TV.

d) Her son: works for Bell, a telecommunications company at a nearby mall. I did not know this guy trying to get me to buy a cell phone I did not need was her son, until crazy persian lady walks in while I was in the midst of haggling with this dude. I was asking this dude (I dont know his name) why he was trying to 'sell me this cellphone when I clearly said that I dont need....' In walks the crazy persian lady with lunch in her hand. The dude looks up over my shoulder and I turn around. I see her and give her a smile. She asks me 'How are yooooou?' (for some reason its always 'yooooou', maybe its the accent or maybe she just pities the girl who doesnt have her parents in the same continent!). She then admonishes her son for forgetting to pick up the lunch - all in arabic. No, I dont speak arabic but I know when a kid is being yelled by his mom for not taking his/her lunch, just from experiance! She then walks away.

e) Saturaday's Delany's: it is next to impossible to get an appointment to see my crazy persian lady as she is slammed on Saturdays. She is maybe in her 50s. She is not ancient and one could describe her as a good looking mature woman. I did manage to wiggle in one Saturday and found out why she is soooooo busy. Being a good looking ethnic woman who gives, what I can only guess - decent haircuts for $10, she has a lot of older men coming in to get their haircut. Now this in itself may not strike you as funny or odd. But a lot of these men come in and very sweetly flirt with her. I find this very endearing and also somewhat funny as she and her husband (who sitting just a few feet away watching TV) are completely oblivious to all this. My CP lady always acts very professional and will cut the hair and send them their way.


Actually having written this - I dont think that the persian lady that is crazy, its just my Anthropologic side that observes these things and sees the crazy side. I do like my esthetician a lot. She hugged me when she found that my family is way back home and I havent actually seen them for 4 years. It was a very obvious motherly hug - that as you can guess I dont get all too often. She has found a place in my heart through that hug - it really reminded me of my mom. I miss you a lot mom!