Hairdresser left me with wet hair

They shouldn't have washed your hair until someone was ready to dry it. It was okay to leave if you were becoming cold or uncomfortable. I don't think you made a scene. You just towel dried and went to the desk to pay.

But I have to agree with the others, that going to the hairdresser while still actively ill with a chest infection was unfair on the stylists who are in such close contact. I know it infuriates me if a stylist is sniffling or suffering with a sore throat when they're doing my hair.

I’ve just wasted ten minutes of my life reading that.

Blow out??? Urgh. That's worse than 'lay-in'.

If you were short on time, you should have told them when you arrived

I hope you recover soon but honestly hoping no one caught it off you, seems odd you went at all.

20 minutes is too long to wait with wet hair. YANBU.

Yabu going to the stylist whilst unwell, no one wants to be styling hair whist you are coughing and snotty. Yabu to go there all the time and never book an appointment, how annoying!
Don't book you'll be fitted in whenever. You did make a scene and should have just sat there and waited for the people with appointments to be completed.

How much does it cost you to have someone else blow dry your hair twice a week, have you added that up over the course of a year?

I think you need to maybe rethink your priorities if you think it is wise to go out to get your hair blow dried when you're obviously feeling pretty ill.

But no they shouldn't have tried to fit you in if they didn't really have time. But it is also really annoying that styling with ghds has now become a part of having your hair cut when salons don't allow enough appointment time for it. It annoys me when my appointment is running 20 mins late because of the previous client getting their hair tinged, that used to be z separate service you'd have to pay for.

YANBU

You were not being unreasonable to leave as they shouldn’t have left you with wet hair.

But honestly, it is so selfish to go to the hairdressers when you are unwell. The staff are working in close contact with you and so you are likely to pass your illness into them. I don’t see how a hairstyle could be so urgent you couldn’t wait until you were better?

I don't think you were unreasonable to leave. It's pretty poor service to leave you sitting there with wet hair for so long. I'm not surprised the owner refused to take payment she was probably embarrassed they'd treated you so poorly.

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Why are ppl so weird?!
This is a salon you regularly go to - twice a week - and appointments aren’t always necessary, nothing wrong with you just turning up.
Of course YNBU for not wanting to sit for a long time with wet hair.
They shouldn’t have washed it until they knew the stylist would be free in the next 5/10 mins.
However if this is just a one off I’d not worry too much, just pop in there tomorrow or maybe drop the owner a private msg on Facebook to say “sorry about today, I’ve not been feeling well and the wet hair made me feel really cold and I just couldn’t wait any longer - hope I didn’t upset anyone, it wasn’t personal. See you Saturday”
It’s not like you ran out without paying ffs. I’d have done the same - my hairdresser always leaves me sitting waiting for something or other, hence I’m trying a new one next month

I think there has been a misunderstanding. They should not have washed your hair if there was no one to finish it.
You could have booked an appointment or as you didn't perhaps asked if they had time .
Never worry go back and take some buns and just check for again. The buns will will be an ice breaker..

Never heard the term I admit, blowouts happen to tyres! And twice a week? I would suggest making appointments though. How the other half live ...

No idea why you’d visit a busy salon with a chest and sinus infection? Seems a bit strange tbh and very selfish 🤷‍♀️
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect to wait with your hair presumably wrapped in a towel?

I was left with a very wet head of hair when I had a full appointment for highlights, cut and blow dry. This was at a salon I had been going to for years. My stylist made my appointment and certainly knew I have thick hair ,halfway down my back.

He stopped drying my hair to take another client as “my appointment had run over time”. I was early to my appointment and early in the chair. I haven’t been back since.

I think leaving was fine, why did he wash your hair if there was no one to dry it?

Blow out is American for blow dry.

I think you’re being a little contradictory to say you don’t make an appointment because you don’t mind waiting, and then say that you did mind waiting albeit with wet hair. I agree it’s annoying though, just probably not to the extent that I would have walked out. Could you not have asked for someone, even a trainee to rough dry it (or even ask for the hair dryer to do it yourself if you were really desperate) and then you could wait with dry hair for the stylist?

I'm more surprised that you exposed other people to catching your chest and sinus infection 😮

GeePipe has it spot on, OP. If the bastard can't stand the heat, he should stay out of the kitchen (or rather the salon)

You shouldn't have gone there.

Blow out?

Sounds like crap service, there is a big difference between waiting to be seen, and waiting after the service has begun. You did nothing wrong by wanting to leave, and thankfully it sounds like the opener of the salon recognised that you had not been treated well and wanted to ensure you didn't feel so bad that you never came back.

Your blow dry should have been started before the person who was behind you in the queue had their blow dry.

Seems like you’re a regular- why not make an appointment? I think both of you could’ve handled it better- the man who washed your hair should’ve made you aware you’d be waiting a while, and asked if you wanted to wait for the wash. I probably wouldn’t have walked out in your position.

YANBU. They shouldn't have washed your hair until they knew they could see you. I think the reaction you got was probably embarrassment that you had been waiting so long without it even registering with them. Hope you're feeling better soon