AIBU to expect that during a 'relaxing' spa treatment

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..that the beauty therapist would shut the fuck up?

Honestly, she talked non stop. About her life, her flat hunting, her boyfriend, her fucking eyebrow tattoo course. I gave her one word answers and told her I wanted a peaceful treatment. Didn't take this on board at all. She left the room while a face and neck mask thing sunk in and that 20 minutes was the only relaxing element of the whole experience.

She also subjected me to a hard sell- fair enough- we all have to make a living- but I felt under pressure to buy products and packages. (I didn't).

I complained to the front desk when I was leaving. They were apologetic but...meh...

This was a gift from my birthday and I feel that my friend wasted her money as I feel about as relaxed as a rabbit in headlights. Mind you, I am glowing and my pores are lovely.

AIBU to expect peace and quiet and not to have to demand they shut up or is this how it works?

I'd like to teach the world to sing

Would you, cat? That would take ages. Have you thought it through?

i think you are being a wee bit unreasonable. I go for a facial once a month and me and my therapist chat the whole time - i dont have a problem with it, but your therapist i presume isnt a mind reader and i think if you had just said something like "if you dont mind im not going to chat, i just want to totally relax" she might have taken the hint and shut up.

I see that ...

The op told her she wanted a peaceful treatment. To me that would mean STFU!! And I would comply.

Personally I hate any kind of smalltalk. I find it pretty embarrassing. I am never doing anything tonight, I am never going anywhere nice on my holiday, I have never heard of the pub or club they ask me about. I come out feeling like a social fail.

Hmmm, yes Vicar, I did think that by not saying 'I WANT TO CONTINUE THIS THING IN TOTAL SILENCE' to her that I really had no right to whine about her verbosity. I guess I thought that it went without saying if I treatment was described as 'tranquil' and 'forget your worries and drift off' blah blah, that it would be just that.

I shall only be satisfied when such treatments are carried out by robots.

I have Sue

I thought I'd roll it out by teaching one person in each country and asking them to teach ten people, asking each of them to teach ten people until everyone is singing in perfect harmony. I could do YouTube tutorials too, just to keep my hand in and make sure we were all singing from the same hymn sheet. Although we won't sing hymns as this is a global and cross-cultural project and I think hymns would not be appropriate. We'll sing Abba. Everyone likes a bit of Abba.

Once that's done I am going to grow some apple trees and honey bees.

I may branch out into doves, but I don't want to over stretch myself

I can sing a rainbow

I did have a quiet experience at the hairdressers once because my answer to the 'are you going anywhere nice?' was 'to my friend's funeral'.

I wasn't lying by the way!

Mind you...

Can you listen with your eyes though gafhyb?

That's really hard

Ooh, sorry...

And I've tried singing everything I see. It got me punched.

Cat - do you mean you're pyramid teaching?

Well, funny you ask catgirl, because I suffer from synaesthesia, so I can also sing everything I see.

You are orange, BTW, and the OP is definitely purple

Fuck off, I'm green

I'm calling it Triangle Teaching as I like the alliteration and the lack of jail time sue

gafhyb orange? :) Fab - I am like spuddys scouse hairdresser :) NIce cheerful colour orange.

Ah well, that's your problem OP. Everyone knows it's not easy being green.

Hmm. maroon, like the West Ham Strip

Good Lord there has been some right nasty idiots on this thread going way over the top with their insults to the op. Nasty and pathetic - grow up trolls.

Op - yanbu - I would go back and say again to the highest manager how disappointed you are and they really should offer you a free treatment with another therapist. Oh and ignore the sour-faced comments on here by the - thankfully - small minority of spiteful little people - they obviously have nothing better to do!

Look, anyone who says fuck off to a complete stranger, is not green Alazarin, maybe

LeQ, I don't know what colour you are but I imagine oyu to be something tasteful by Farrow and Ball :)