Thousands of words have been written about the media’s tendency to present unrealistic body images. These signs are unrealistic, too, but in their own glorious way:
Where?
This shop apparently caters to customers whose toenails center around their spines. If that’s your situation, you’d certainly want a pedicure. Just think how uncomfortable it would be to settle into a chair, lean back, and hit a toenail.
Staying on the subject of feet, I can’t resist reposting this sign (see “Massage Tips” at http://www.grammarianinthecity.com/?p=1253):
Front feet not included.
The hyphen in “back-foot” creates one description; therefore, this store massages only your back foot. Go somewhere else if your front feet are sore.
Here’s another sign that assumes some strange anatomical features:
How many upper lips do you have?
Okay, “upper lips” and “under lips” may be a general reference to body parts, not a strict count of what’s on a client’s face. But why the singular “chin” then? A customer is more likely to have more than one chin than more than one upper or under lip, even in this city well supplied with supermodels who wear size zero. And what’s a “side face”? Is each side $10, or do some people opt for an asymmetrical look?
I’m not even going to speculate about the meaning of “Men Ear Wax or Thread.” But if you want to do so, go for it!