The Difference Between a Spa and a Doctor's Office
While I love a massage, what I really love—the genuinely relaxing part—is the waiting room. The lounge chairs, the wafting music, the teas, the lemons floating in the special water, everybody shuffling around in robes like 19th-century hysterics gone to take the cure at McLean, the air misty with estrogen. Heaven. Better than the massage, the facial, whatever, no? Discuss.
—Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director
February 28, 2008
Well I wouldn't say it's the BEST part, but it's certainly less cold and uninviting than a doctor's or chiropractor's office. Spa waiting rooms put you in the mood and by the time you get to the actual treatment you're really ready for the "Ahhhh."
"everybody shuffling around in robes like 19th-century hysterics gone to take the cure at McLean"
Baffling that in the 21st century one could use that pithy description for a spa without the slightest hint of irony.
I think it was funny!
BTW, nothing beats the massage.
i see your logic, especially if you're getting a deep tissue massage, which is always slightly painful (but totally worth it once the knots are worked out). and facials often leave my sensitive skin raw. maybe i'm not going to the right places...
I'm a stay-at-home mom and spas aren't generally part of my budget, however, my mom generously gave me a gift certificate a few months ago, and your post gave me a happy flashback. The free robes and cucumber water were absolutely as much a part of the experience as the pedicure. I felt as if I'd been briefly transformed into a lady-who-lunches, with nothing better to do with my time but sit among other robe-clad women and listen to coma-inducing music. Pure bliss!