
Imagine your aunt say, was a larger lady and she was treating herself to a manicure.
She gets her bill – and it’s a fiver more than she was expecting. When she queries the price she’s told that overweight people are charged more. And if she doesn’t like it she needn’t come back.
The humiliation!
Sounds mad? Well it’s not, it’s happening in the US and although there was a media storm about one recent incident in Georgia, it’s becoming more common to treat customers like this and is apparently perfectly legal.
Obese people break furniture say the salons claiming that the cost of this means that a surcharge must be slapped on each and every obese customer, because the furniture won’t take weights of over 200lbs. Buy stronger chairs to start off with I would have thought and then you won’t need to humiliate people.
The Irish definition of a larger lady is not however the same as it is in the US, where hugely overweight folk are much more common. Could it happen here though? And if it did what would you think?
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