On how I may have spoken too soon

Remember this?

Funny story.

So, on each hall that the residents live on, there is one hand washing station for all the nurses, etc. The soap dispenser at this station looks a lot like this:

You may be familiar with this dispenser.  In case you aren't, here's how you work it.

Now for months, hall three has been out of soap.  Months being as long as I have been working there.  Then, hall one ran out of soap.  AND THEY NEVER REFILLED IT.  I was so disgusted by the fact that all of the nursing staff was not washing their hands that I didn't know what to do with myself.  I mean, how gross is that? How can a place be out of soap for months? Can you imagine what kinds of things they touch without washing their hands? There was hand sanitizer... but sometimes you NEED to wash your hands. I would judge and judge and judge people on the long walk from hall three back to the therapy gym where I could finally was my hands with good old soap and water. On Friday, here's what happened:

It appears I may have been a little early in my judgement over the difficulty of soap dispensers. My patients may not be able to figure out automatic soap dispensers, but clearly, I can't figure out the manual ones.

On the best marketing scheme. ever.

So, I recently made a wonderful discovery. Hair cuts at cosmetology school. How I lived 25 years of my life without this knowledge is beyond me.  I have never been that high maintenance with my hair cuts and I have always been cheap. Needless to say, after discovering the wonderful land of institutes of hair design, my life was quite changed.

1) It's cheap.
2) You can walk in on a Saturday and there's no wait.
3) If you do make an appointment, they were ready for you when you get there (and don't seem to "forget" I made an appointment and make me wait 2 hours. Thanks Shannon)
4) All of the student's work was awkwardly "checked over" by her supervisor (which let's face it, most people could use some good quality control, even if they aren't students)

When the supervisor was checking over the student's work, he suggested I try a certain shampoo they were selling because my hair "needed it". I was so over joyed by the experience that I decided to take his advice. I was saving so much money; plus I have never had real salon shampoo.  It comes in a tiny, shiny bottle, so it must be nice.  Suave may think there's no difference, but I was about to see for myself.

Oh it looks so FANCY!

As I was checking out, the supervisor said "Even if you don't notice a different after the first bottle, keep using it."

BRILLIANT.

Who needs 100% satisfaction guaranteed? That implies the product works.  "Just keep using it" should be the tagline for every product. It ensures repeat costumers with no promise of actually working.

So, have I noticed a difference from the shampoo? Duh, that's not the point. I'm going to keep using it anyways.