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Overweight and Want a Manicure? Pay a Fat Surcharge!

August 24th, 2010. By LucyC

What would you do if you were charged, without advance notice, an additional fee for wear and tear of equipment related to a service you were purchasing, simply because you are overweight?

For example, if you went into a nail bar for a pedicure, for an advertised price, and were subsequently charged an additional $5 more at the end of your session because you were deemed to be over 200 lbs? Yup, you read that correctly. The five dollars would be a kind of tax, fine, levy…actually, I don’t know what category, besides discrimination, that charge would fit under.

Neither does the person who was charged the $5, as it turns out. Oh, it’s a true story. Short version, Michelle Fonville from Georgia, was charged an additional $5 by Kim Tran, the salon manager of Natural Nails in DeKalb County, as a surcharge to the salon for chairs broken by overweight customers, MSNBC.com is reporting.

It’s only my opinion, but I find that a bit of a cheek, for a variety of reasons, not the least being that all sorts of people use the chairs all day long—presumably—so how could wear and tear be solely the fault of people over 200 lbs? And, how could Ms. Tran Read the rest of this entry »

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