S/O talking during a pedicure?

I love my nail technician and enjoy our conversations and friendship. I couldn't imagine just expecting them to sit there and wait on me without saying anything. Just not my thing at all. I understand her just fine too, not all have accents or speak English as a second language. She is awesome. <3

Any place I've lived, unless you go to a really expensive, fancy spa-type place, all the nail technicians are Vietnamese. And most of them have been here less than 10 years and have extremely thick accents.

All the pedicure companies around here are owned and completely staffed either by Vietnamese or Koreans, who speak little to no English. One of the women who does mine is so limited that she has to hand customers a printed list of services and have us point out which ones we want.

Even if they did speak English fluently, I generally go with friends, so we are all chatting together. No need to converse with anyone else.

I prefer to just relax and not make small talk.

Even without language barriers, manicures, pedicures, haircuts, color, etc. are some of the only "me" time I get - so I really   having it silent (or nearly so).  It's just more relaxing for me; I'm not intending to be rude.  I usually plug into a device (phone or ipod or something) during nail services, and that helps me get the environment I'm seeking.

I prefer to read and not chat during a pedicure. I have to agree with the others who said it's a good time to just relax. Now when I'm getting my hair done, I have great conversations with my stylists and the others in the salon.

I find it difficult to chat with the nail technician when I'm getting a pedicure, because I find that when she's down by my feet, it's just not conducive to conversation. When she's doing my manicure, we chat the whole time.

I love the lady that does my nails - she's been doing my nails for years, and I know about her kids and grand kids, but only learned last week that she was a lawyer in Vietnam before she came to the US, 30 years ago. Her husband is an architect, and she when she came here she was not able to work in her field. She did home child care for 20 years, and about 10 years ago, she agreed to help a young couple in her church open a nail salon, so she went through the necessary training to be a nail tech.

No talking!   "You want flower?" is about all I can understand anyway.  Most of the time I'm like

I don't like small talk, it can be difficult to hear if the foot spa bubble thing is going, and I like to read and relax quietly during pedicures. No chit chat please.

Lots of chit chat from multiple techs would keep me from going back somewhere.

Yup! Ditto this.


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Last time I went, I felt very pressured to have the gel nails. I've read up on it, and I know from past experience that it would be bad for my nails. My natural nails look great anyway.

I prefer quiet as well. What I hate is when the owner comes in bitching about there not being enough customers and starts counting the money. I find it is so hard to discover a nail salon that is both professional AND sterile.

I haven't even found a nice spa/salon that does mani/pedis. I think most have stopped since everyone goes to the cheap places.

I always chat with my hair stylist--or at least I did before I moved and haven't found a new one I really like. But my girl in TN, we chatted up a storm at every appointment. I knew all about her boyfriend, her mom, her sister, her niece…I miss her!