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Posted by Kimm Moon on February 25, 2004 at 16:20:33:

I did a Girl Scout event as a favor to a friend, who needed another
Henna artist. It was all on a volunteer basis, which was OK by me. We
were told there would be 40-50 girls and we wouldn't be the only
activity. There would also be hair braiding, massages, cappuccino,
dancing, palates and make-up advice. So we figured the two of us
could handle it.
After a 2 hour drive we arrived early to set-up. Setting up only
took 5 minutes or so, so we henna-ed each other and a few early
birds. Then the scouts began to come in in herds. the head count
totaled 250!!! We quickly turned into the main attraction. Our line
extended beyond our view and the insanity began.
Scout leaders hovered nearby shouting at us to hurry it up because
there were alot of girls and they ALL were told they would be able to
get henna. I tried my best to explain that we could not possibly get
all these girls henna-ed, but we would try our best. There were about
3-4 scout leaders that were exceptionally pushy...pointing out to me
which designs I "should" be doing, the ones they thought were easiest
and quickest to do. They even took my books apart in attempt to weed
out the easy designs from the hard ones...that was a minor annoyance
compared to the one that hovered close to me and kept telling me to
hurry, no hand designs because they took too long...as if she was an
expert. When I stopped looking up at her (because I was trying to
hurry.) she must have thought that I couldn't hear her so she got
louder and bent her head very low so I could see her in my Field of
vision. This woman was so obnoxious I didn't know what to say to get
her the heck away from me so I could work in peace. So in an attempt
to avoid confrontation in front of children, I pleasantly told her if
all the girls didn't get henna-ed I would come to each troop meeting
and henna them there. (stupid stupid stupid!) I live 2-4 hours away
from most of these troops!!! What was I thinking by saying that!
To top this evening of chaos off as I was packing up my stuff, the
early bird girls approached us to tell us they got in trouble for
having such large and lovely designs on there hands and that they
were told it wasn't fair to the rest of the girls who were only
allowed to get small simple designs.....what insanity!
On my long drive home....through a typically nasty western New york
snow storm on dark country roads, I prayed that those leaders would
lose my business cards..................but of course they didn't.
I received a call from the obnoxious woman wanting me to come to her
troop, like I had(stupidly) promised I would....now I have to call
her back and tell her if i can or can't do it...I'm dragging my feet
on this.
Comments, critisisms, advice are all welcome.
Artfully Screwed,
Kimm Moon

 

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