I think that you have hit the nail on the head with mentioning the bathrooms. I was homeless/NFA and knew a lot of homeless people in a couple of major UK cities, and MacDs bathrooms were always considered a place where you could use the facilities without being bothered. Of course, that meant that some people used…

Twelve years ago when I was homeless in Baltimore and lurking around a RoFo dumpster the Krispy Kreme driver told me that any night I was outside when he got there I could have every 12 hr old donut (all destined for said dumpster if I wasn't there at drop off time). He would bag them nicely and wish me well. Thank u…

Jesus. Maccas is go to for buying a homeless person food - no, I won’t give you cash because drug money, but I will take you to McDonalds or 7-11 and buy you food, water and coffee. Because food. You need food. You also need shelter and not be treated like you’re less than a person, but I don’t have that level of…

If someone is loitering on the property, menacing customers, vandalizing, or stealing: those are crimes.

If it helps I am on the #westcoastbestcoast so it's only 3:24AM. Not 6:24. That would be shameful.

Hello is there a Friday night/Saturday morning Open Thread for those of us who may or may not have gotten into some cocaine tonight. It's OK it's from the Earth.

Googling it wouldn’t have explained to me the demographic. But hey, thanks, because I never would have considered LOOKING THAT SHIT UP.

People ask me this all the time. I’m a reference librarian sitting under a big ol’ sign that says “reference librarian”. One woman told me she assumed we were all volunteers when I told her you needed a master’s degree to be a librarian.

That’s generally what I go with, I just refer to it as a “long layer cut” and if need be, let the stylist know I don’t want layers shorter than chin length (so I can still tuck it behind my ears).
I made the mistake of just asking for layers once and ended up looking like the lead singer of Whitesnake because my hair…

Not weird at all. I would ask for her opinion and just say, “I want to cover my grey, but I don’t know how to exactly go about that. I’d like to do something fun, though. I’ve never colored my hair before.” Some of my best colors have turned out saying, “I just want something fun,” although I will caveat this by…

Yah, I am always lugging a big ol’ tote bag because I have to go to work, take along breakfast, lunch, and a workout snack, my ballet clothes, and something to read on the train. Maybe I’ll go out after ballet. I don’t have the extra hours and energy to go home in between each of these activities to shower, cook…

I was at a salon once when a woman walked out with a box of hair color to be applied. The colorist looks at the color, looks at her hair color, and explains to her that applying that color will turn her hair green. She even brings out a color wheel to explain why. The woman insists that she apply it anyway. She…

I can’t understand this. I’ve had terrible haircuts; once I rolled out of a place with layering so severe it looked like a mullet and I had to get an emergency appointment somewhere else to fix it. In the end, it’s just hair. It grew back. I lived.

I walked in a salon once, and a client was just LOVING her new short hair cut. Loving it. Grinning from ear to ear, and thanking her stylist profusely. 30 minutes later she comes back with her mom, who throws a fit about the hair. Screaming about how the stylist should’ve made sure she had her mother’s permission…

7. Please don’t ask me, “Did you go to school for this this?”

7. Please don’t ask me, “Did you go to school for this this?”

I like asking stylists to tell me about any extreme (good or bad) hair makeovers they’ve done. Apparently, there’s a 50-something cancer survivor with a hot pink mohawk in my town that I’ve never seen but plan to hi-five if I ever do. She literally walked in and was like, “I didn’t die and now that I have hair again,…

Yeah I usually do 20-25%. My stylist is reallyyy expensive (I do side work for my mom just to afford keeping my hair blonde!) so that percentages adds up to a lot!

My best friend does hair and her favorites are people who show her a highly styled, high maintenance look and then proceed to tell her they don’t want to put any product in their hair and don’t want to spend any time on it. Unless you are blessed, movie star hair takes some time and effort on your part. Also she loves…

I could never be a hair stylist. I’ve witnessed at least a handful of client meltdowns related to expectations versus results. As in, a 40 year old woman thinks that if she gets the same haircut as a supermodel, she’ll also magically get said supermodel’s cheekbones / bone structure / etc.