Woman refused pedicure because of weight

[happyroo_bunji]

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/17821686/woman-refused-pedicure-for-being-too-fat/

A woman has recorded the moment she was refused a pedicure from a US nail salon after staff told her she was too large to fit in the chair.

Rachel Bascue was denied treatment at Regal Nails Salon in Hot Springs, Arkansas just one day after her mother was also refused a pedicure at the salon for the same reason.

On her second attempt to have a pedicure Ms. Bascue secretly recorded her conversation with salon staff on her mobile phone.

In the footage a male employee can be heard telling Ms Bascue she is too fat and would break the chair.

"You cannot (fit) over 250 lbs (112kg). You don't fit.

"I've tried to tell you too many times. It's not fit for you. It's dangerous. It's for your own benefit," the employee continued.

Ms Bascue said despite the employees claims, she and her mother had both been treated at the salon in the past without any problems.

She conceded the public humiliated she suffered during the altercation with salon staff was the worst abuse she has experience.

"I have been talked about and made fun of, but this is the first time I was made to feel like a freak," Bascue told NBC.

"I shouldn't be discriminated (sic), nobody should be made to feel like that."

Umm I have opinions about this, but I won't say what they are yet, want to see what others think.

[cherry*135]

I think businesses should have theright to say people are too big to fit in their chairs/seats. airlines do.

[margomeoz]

Well happy I probably should not state mine either but I don't think I would like to play with her feet either and actually I think they were very nice to use the chair as an excuse not to treat her.

Lets face it I think it would be a damn long time since she was able to bed down and give her feet a good wash.

[dskracing]

Call me harsh...but if it is a safety reason and she is too big for the chair, then I think they are well within their rights to refuse service.

[lionrose.7]

If she could not fit into the chair how could she have a pedicure.

I feel very sorry for her 😞

[margomeoz]

someone hand me an N please for my post bed = bend

[the_great_she_elephant]

It's unclear from the OP whether she really didn't fit in the chair or the pedicurist was afraid she'd break it. either way I think he was entitled to refuse her service . but a lot would depend on how tactful he was about it. 

[crystal**flake]

I dont think 112kg is overly large, I'm sure she could have given herself a pedi. 

I bet they were asians.

[mainecoon1]

The problem I have with the story is that she knew her mother had been refused the day before and so had she so it seems to me that she deliberately went to this Salon for the second time to provoke a reaction so she could film it cry foul and then try and get compensation for humiliation.  

If she truly was humiliated maybe this will give her the incentive to loose weight but I doubt it.

[azureline**]

If she doesn't fit within the guidelines for the weight the chair takes, they should refuse.

Norti poster award for Crystal.