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February 2011 Moms
TiffanyTheMom
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My Mother's Day Gift. DH is sorry.
TiffanyTheMom
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My DH booked me a 1hr full body massage! He didn't tell me til we showed up to the place, and then left me.
First, the massage was supposed to start at 3 and I was in the room 10 min after, and the masseuse showed up 15 min later.
The massage itself was fine. Not fantastic, not mind-blowing, just fine. The music kept turning off, so she'd leave the room to yell at the manager to turn it back on. She gave me an extra 5 min because of the music. As I was leaving, the guy at the front desk showed me the receipt ($42 for the hour) and asked if I'd like to leave a tip. I said sure, so I put $7. He looked at it and told me it was customary to leave a $10 tip, and left the receipt on the counter. Like he wanted me to change the amount. And the masseuse was standing right there watching me! I was like, Um, well, it's already on the receipt and she was all, Oh, that's fine, just fine. As if I was doing something wrong, but she was going to let it go since it was my first massage! I felt 2 inches tall as I left there.
My mom is a masseuse, and I have gotten massages from her before- she's very professional and after her massages, I feel like I'm floating on air. I called her after and told her about it, and she was shocked they were pushing a bigger tip. I am too, and I wish I'd said something smart to them. DH is angry about the tip thing, and he wants to call the shop and yell at the manager for pushing more money out of us when we could have take our business to any of the hundreds of massage parlors anywhere here.
So... his gift was kind of a flop, and he's bummed. I feel bad, he actually tried this year and it didn't pan out well. 
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Re: My Mother's Day Gift. DH is sorry.
first, sorry for my lack of caps. i just got a new phone this week and it will only let me type in lower case on here. ?? weird. anyway, sorry about your mother's day present. bet your husband felt bad. mine did today too, he didn't realize the ppb bag he ordered was on back order so it did not arrive by today and he just gave me a picture of it, he felt horrible. poor guys.
hope you had a great day other than that though!
now, to figure out how in the heck to use caps on here!!!! arg!
Uh, because my mother is in FL and we're in CA.
Sorry that it pretty much sucked and I feel bad for you DH thinking you would have a great time and you left there worse then when you get there (assume you walked in feeling more then 2 feet tall).
A tip is essentially a reward or gift for a service. My tip directly correlates to how well the service provided was and not what they tell me. And you, my dear, sound like you had shiitty service. Leaving a massage multiple times? How the f are you suppose to fully relax when it keeps stopping and starting!
How did you get paragraphs?!
I for the life of me can't figure it out on my iphone.
If someone had told me what they "usually" get for a tip, I would have taken the receipt back....and crossed off the tip.
Also, I'm a massage therapist. You do NOT leave the room mid-massage. You're not even supposed to break contact unless necessary. It's disruptive to relaxation. I've had music stop (forgot to hit the repeat button on the cd player) and continued the massage. When I apologized afterward, they said they didn't really notice.
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My mother's day was great- I'm blessed with 3 gorgeous, funny, smart children and a DH who shows growth and maturity with every passing year. I just feel so bad that my DH's first super awesome attempt at a gift blew up.
My upper back is sore right now, like she didn't work enough there.
It feels like a waste of money.
I barely got a Happy Mothers day from MH so a crappy massage is sounding good to me.
Sorry it didn't turn out like he had planned...I hate when people ask for tips. I yelled at a chinese food delivery guy when I was PG over it and basically told him that was all he was getting so bu-bye
OMG how rude of them to ask for more of a tip. If people tipped under15/20% at the restaurant I worked at the manager would sometimes speak to the guests. For them it was to find out what was wrong with the service so that it could be corrected.
I'm a massage therapist and that sounds awful. I would have complained. The first thing they teach you is to never remove your hands unless theres an issue. And by issue I mean an emergency. And then they left the room on top of it. On top of that, I hate when people are tip pushy. Your tip should be based on how the service was. I wouldn't have tiped in this case and I would have spoken to someone.
Sorry it sucked. People/places like those make our entire industry look bad.
Paragraphs are no problem, I just hit tab, but that's on a BB. On my old BB I could not do paragraphs though, but I could shift and capitalize. Now on the new one I can't capitalize and can make paragraphs. What the heck.
It was a place in Kearny Mesa on Convoy, it's in the plaza where Curry House, IACE , and a place called SunRise Buffet. Wish I remembered the name, I'll have to ask DH when he gets home.
This is plenty of info - thanks! I was just there Friday night bc DH loooves the Sunrise Buffet... Sorry again that your massage wasn't everything it was chalked up to be!