THE DRUNK AND THE ARM ON THE FLOOR

[ED ST]

A salon owner here in Cleveland, Ohio, told me this story about a bed cleaner who passed out when she peeked into a tanner's room to find out what was taking the tanner so long to vacate the room one night last summer.
The salon owner said that he could tell from her breath and speech that his customer - a young lady - was drunk when she walked in, but he rang up the single session sale, anyway, and assigned her a room. The customer zigzagged her way down the hall, stepped into the right room, and a few minutes later the tanning bed turned on.
But, 40 minutes later, after the tanning bed had been off for 20 minutes, and the customer still hadn't vacated the room, the salon owner began to suspect that she had passed out or simply fallen into a deep sleep.
After another 10 minutes of waiting, he decided to knock on the door of the room, hoping to wake up the sleeping customer. But, no matter how much or how loudly he knocked, there was no reaction from inside the room.
He fetched his skeleton key, but before unlocking and opening the door, he called his bed cleaner, a high school girl, over to him and instructed her to peek into the room first, since the sleeping customer was a female.
He unlocked the door, pushed it slightly ajar, and the bed cleaner poked her head into the room.
The next thing he knew, he heard her shriek, step back into the hallway, and fall backwards.
He pushed the door open. The canopy of the tanning bed was down, there was a head of long, brown hair on the yellow foam pillow, and lying on the floor was a detached arm.
"It was the last thing I expected to see," he said. "It took me a minute to make sense of what I was looking at, that it was a prosthetic arm."
By then, two customers who had been waiting at the front counter, and had heard the commotion, came dashing down the hallway. They propped up the passed-out bed cleaner and brought her back to her senses. The owner, meanwhile, crept into the sleeping tanner's room and tried to wake her up.
"No matter what I did, I couldn't wake her up. I even banged on the top of the tanning bed with the flat of my hand, but, nothing. She was out cold!"
By then a small crowd had gathered at the room.
One of them was a Cleveland fireman, and he suggested that the owner call EMS, which is what he did. An ambulance was at the salon in a matter of minutes, and within a few more minutes the sleeping drunken tanner was on a stretcher, her prosthetic arm laid out on top of her, and was being wheeled out to the waiting ambulance.
The next day the owner found out that the drunken tanner had woken up in the ambulance on the way to the Emergency Room with no sense or recollection of where she was, where she had been, or what had happened to her.
"I haven't seen her since," he said.


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[lil_missfit]

OMG - too funny

[ALOHATANCA]

OMG.....only in the Tanning Business!! Never let a drunk person tan!!!

[Neon Beach]

I guess you have to be properly armed to deal with these types of situations? I would have been alarmed too! Hope there was no real harm done though.

[Sqewk]

I wonder if she gets her 1 arm airbrushed to match the rest of her?

[TanningEmporium]

needed a good laugh

[amazontans]

this is too funny

[Neon Beach]

Quote:
On 2004-11-02 14:23:00, Neon Beach wrote:
I guess you have to be properly armed to deal with these types of situations? I would have been alarmed too! Hope there was no real harm done though.

[TRayz]

OMG, that is crazy. We had someone fall asleep before and we banged on the door and yelled, still nothing. We called 911 and they opened the door and the guy had fallen in a DEEP sleep. We need a skeleton key.

[Sherin]

I think it was very considerate given her condition to remove her arm & not scratch up your bed...