Yesterday I took a few hours off from the most adorable child in the universe to visit one of my favorite LA spots, Wi Spa, a traditional Korean bathhouse. After soaking in various hot tubs and resting in rooms heated to 135 degrees or more, I got the scrub. For those who have never had the unique pleasure: For $30, a woman wearing only a black bra and panties will use a rough webbed glove, which we will call the Mitten from Hell, to exfoliate your skin. Every single inch of it as you lie on a vinyl covered table, watching the dead skin roll off with each pass of the Mitten. You emerge, new and soft and clean and ready to take on your life again.
There are babies and grannies and everyone in between at these places. As I was lounging in a tub, I noticed pairs of old women helping each other in and out of the pools and saunas, and taking turns scrubbing each other with their own personal Mittens from Hell. I made a mental list of potential girlfriends who would trade back scrubs with me when we are 70licious.
If you ever want to know who is in your largest circle of friends, have a life event -- a wedding, a baby, a major illness, that kind of thing. But if you want to know who your dearest circle is, imagine who is most likely to scrub your back when you are 75, when the babies are off and gone, when the wedding pictures have faded, when the illness has left its faint scars.
5 comments:
Thanks for this beautiful post. I sent it to my best friend who is going through a really hard time right now. It felt good telling her I'd scrub her back when we're 70.
I love this! I just found your blog today (and honestly, I don't remember how) but I can guarantee that I'll be back!
:)
Amy
Thanks ladies. I've been thinking about this all day. xo V
Your good friends will tell you when your dress is see-through (and you're not wearing a slip) or you have a boog in your nose, too. :) Great post V.
Well I happen to be wearing a see-through dress today!
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