Oh NYT, really? Did you really need to have an expose on the manicure/pedicure industry?

It’s not like I thought that these women in the backless stools were paid well, because let’s face it, they’re performing a task I do not want to do myself. And they’re *my* feet/hands.
(As an aside, my feet are actually not so bad. But I’ve taken a look around many a mani/pedi place as well as in my barefoot Barre burn classes, and let me tell you: There are a lot of unkempt feet out there). But I thought these women at least made minimum wage. And that their pay did not depend on customers showing up in the dead of winter.

But now what? As I see it I/we have five choices, and I don’t really like any of them.

1) Ignore the article and pretend I never read it (I won’t do this, but I want to).

2) Convince myself that by getting a pedicure, at least the woman will get paid something for the day (yeah, I know, I know).

3) Tip the shit out of the pedicurist herself.

4) Go to insanely priced salon where hopefully the employees are paid better. I checked the Mandarin’s website and since some of their spa treatments are $1,000 (really), am guessing this might not be my best idea.

5) Do it my own damn self. Which would require me to learn how to apply nail polish better than my 9 year-old can.

Maybe I should stop reading the paper.