HEALTH & BEAUTY
Prompt - Health & Beauty : Take some time to peruse your medicine cabinet or the health and beauty aisles at a local store. Write a poem, short story or journal entry inspired by a product label.
It was a disaster. In ten minutes time I had to leave for an interview that could change my life. Would change my life. I was sure of that. Until my idiot daughter managed to tip jam in my hair.
Cue panic. Cue anger and fury and a frustrating sense of what never was. I yelled, she cried.
"Ideas?" I looked around the room in search of hope. "Anyone?" They looked too frightened. "Come on, I have ten minutes. TEN MINUTES!"
Geraldine had been staying with us for a few days. My sister-in-law suddenly threw her arms up and rushed from the room. She was back within thirty seconds.
"Try this" she commanded.
She was holding out a white tube. In big aqua lettering were the words 3 MINUTE REPAIR, and under that, in smaller font RINSE OUT TREATMENT. "I've never used it yet, but I've heard it's good." I had nothing to lose.
She came with me to the bathroom, trying to make sense of the tiny print on the back. "Here, let me." She sat me on the edge of the bath, put a towel over my shoulders to protect my clothes, wet her hands and ran them through my sticky thatch to dampen. Then she rubbed in the treatment, a white cream that smelt of nothingness. "Now wait."
She left me for a couple of minutes, then returned, checking her watch. "That's it, three minutes. " She wet her hands again, through a little water from her cupped hands into my scalp. Massaged away. "Stickiness gone" she announced proudly.
I rushed into the bedroom, blasted the hairdryer and comb though my repaired dome, and thanked her as I made my exit.
Disaster averted. It did what it said on the tube.
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