I Can Not.
This afternoon, I FINALLY found myself inside a nail salon. THANK GOODNESS. My favorite regular place to go wasn’t open, so I found myself at a place I had never visited before. And so did masses of other people, because the wait times were long. While my nails were being done, a woman busted through the door and proclaimed she had an emergency and needed to have her nails done immediately. The long line people waiting all just looked her and so she offered them each $10 if she could cut in line in front of them. No one took her up on her offer, so she once again proclaimed she had an emergency and she offered each person $50 in cash if she could skip the line. At this point, most people in the line agreed to the $50 payout. The owner stepped in and told her the wait was long and she would have to come back later. And then she proclaims loudly, “DO YOU JUST WANT ME TO MISS MY DAUGHTER’S EMERGENCY WEDDING? I CAN’T GO TO A WEDDING WITH THESE NAILS AND HER WEDDING IS AN EMERGENCY.” And then she stormed out. I almost reminded her that drug stores offer a fine press-on nail for emergencies, but she didn’t look like the type to appreciate unsolicited advice. I still have a lot of questions.
Anyway.
Here’s what else is going on:
Jeanne continues to recover well at home. On Sunday, she was playing Candy Crush on her laptop. Did you know that was still a thing? She also had Gunsmoke playing in the background. The whole scene was very on-brand for her.
While the majority of the city begins the reopening process this week, everything remains the same for us since we never closed and remained business-as-usual for the past five weeks. That was a hard decision to make, but in retrospect I’m certain we made the right decision for PJP and we’ve come out stronger on the other side of an unprecedented time in our history.
I so appreciate the Team PJP members who really worked hard over the past month. All the people who work with the public as part of an essential service are amazing. Obviously, I couldn’t have done this without them…but also thanks to our food truck drivers, UPS and FedEx delivery drivers, bank tellers that take our deposits and give us change for the drawer, and more. It takes a village, even in a pandemic.
I read today that J. Crew filed for bankruptcy with over one billion dollars in debt and blamed It on COVID-19. And here is my thought about J. Crew: their favorite client is a 21 year old girl who is 5’10” and 115 pounds with a high amount of discretionary income. And that is their billion dollar debt problem, because that is a pretty small percentage of the women in the world shopping. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
This has nothing to do with anything, but if I read one more article about murder hornets, I’m going to need to up my dosage of Xanax. I can’t live in an uncertain time of pandemic and mix in the arrival of murder hornets. I CAN NOT.
