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Ahhh, after a refreshing evening of sleeping upside-down (or whatever Tabatha does to repose) she revisits The Loft to meet up with Tami and find out exactly why this woman seems to be intent on joining the throngs filing bankruptcy at this very moment. Turns out Tami's picture could be in the dictionary next to the word "denial" because that is the supreme state of her being...

..."Why are you here? Why am I here?"...

Tabatha starts with a few questions every good salon owner should know the answer to (that is, if they're interested at all in staying in the salon industry as opposed to joining the ranks of Faceless Uninspired Corporate Office Workers, or FUCOWs... and don't get mad at my acronyms, I'm stuck being one of 'em, too). Lady T wants to know how many clients Tami has, how many new clients come in every week, how much her manicurist area is pulling in. Tami has no idea. The only thing she does know for sure is that she's not pulling in enough money to live off of (she says she's living with her boyfriend and "He pays for everything."... what a lucky guy he is!) and then admits to Tabatha that she borrows money from Dear Old Mom. "I hate asking, but..." Yeah, but every month, somehow she overcomes this hatred enough to score $1500.00 from mom's checkbook. Niiiiice.

Tami interviews that she's borrowed money from several sources, actually, and that now she needs to move out of the country and go into hiding. I'd say that's a good plan, and your mother would likely be the most relieved of all, Tami!...

...the face of willful ignorance is never pretty (but it does have highlights!)...

Lady T is demanding to know why Tami owns a salon in the first place, and it turns out that Tami didn't want a salon, she wanted a spa, because she had "helped people" run their spas and do marketing for them, and when she saw The Loft, she saw the potential for it to grow, and thought that "if the 'hair part' didn't work out then I would make it into a spa..." Interesting concept, that. If the main income-generator of my business fails, I'll just change it over to something else.... with what?!?!? Sorry, Tami seems kinda sweet... but ultimately kinda stupid, too.

She also can't understand why the stylists cannot just run themselves, because she doesn't want to have to be their mommy. She insists that she wants the salon to work, but she's saying it with her eyes half-closed and in a really dull, dead tone of voice. Kinda like when you're dating someone and you tell them that you love them, and you're giving them full eye-contact (and possibly a blowjob) and they're reclining and watching a rerun of "Bewitched" or "Family Feud" and they glance at you for half a second and say "Yeah, right back atcha babe!... oh, and uh, little less teeth there, if you don't mind?" It's just really hard to put stock in someone's words when they're giving you no indication of any sincerity whatsoever. It's also really hard to put Band-Aids all over your penis...

Tami is one of those really frustrating and annoying and infuriating kind of people who just sit back and say "Yeah, you're right, I guess I'm a bad business owner..." and go right back to organizing their Post-It Note pads, arranging them in the desk drawer according to hue. She is just standing there shaking her head as Tabatha tries to get some kind of idea of why all of this has happened, and claims she doesn't have any of the answers... it is really pushing Tabatha to the breaking point...

"Tami, I'm not a violent person... but I want to just beat the living hell out of you!" Tami's still smiling like she thinks Lady T is joking. Next thing you know, she's clapped her hand to the side of her head with a shocked look on her face as blood begins to pour through her fingers and we see Tabatha chewing on her severed left ear and snarling "Next time, gimme some answers, bitch!" Ok, no that didn't really happen, but I was starting to find the fantasy disturbingly pleasant to envision...

STAFF MEETING

This time around, instead of it being staff-only, Tabatha has Tami sit in on the meeting so she can hear exactly what her people really think of her hands-off style of management. Markoan Crawford says he can't stand when some of the staff wander in 20-30 minutes late and their clients have been sitting and waiting for them...

...girl, I totally feel you on that one!...

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