Do Our Friends Own Corporations or Just Businesses?

Dear Crystal Lou,

I was getting my nails done yesterday at Eileen’s, and oh my goodness are they so cute. She talked me into getting my usual French manicure with the white tips but she did the most clever thing. She painted the 4th finger, the ring finger, on each hand all white and painted the most darling long stemmed pink rose bud along the outer edge you’ve ever seen. It is a work of art. When I get my head shot done, I am going to make sure that you can see my hands. Eileen is the best.

When I was there, I started asking Eileen if she was a corporation and she looked at me as if I had lost my mind. I told her I was trying to learn about corporations and wouldn’t it be good if she and her employees (well actually it’s just her cousin and her daughter and they work part time at that) had some protection against someone suing them if they did something wrong.

She got all upset for a minute and almost spilled my glass of wine thinking that someone was bad-mouthing her business. I told her to settle down a bit I was only thinking out loud, no one was complaining about her.

Well after she took a big breath, she laughed and said that who would complain about her nail salon? If they didn’t like the manicure, they could always take the polish off or ask her to redo the nails. Her daughter is a little sloppy and lazy with the massage part of the pedicure she admitted but it wasn’t really a suing offense.

Well I wasn’t going to say anything after that but I did notice that when Ms. Ramseur came in for her appointment she just about tripped over the little plastic mat at the front door, and one time I did come down with a nasty infection in my big toe, just before Memorial Day and I swear to God I didn’t have it before having my pedicure at her daughter’s station. I have always thought that girl of her was dirty and I wouldn’t be surprised if she “forgot” to completely disinfect her basin.

Eileen also said that if someone wanted to sue her they just could go ahead and do it. She was barely making ends meet as it was, so if someone wanted to take all her half used bottles of OPI, a few nail files and a 50 gallon drum of acetone they were welcome to it. You can’t get blood from a turnip after all.

I don’t know, I guess a corporation is a little over the top for someone like Eileen but I would hate for someone like Mrs. Ramseur to trip and fall and have a greedy lawyer from Charlotte or Raleigh come down and make poor Eileen go bankrupt. Eileen laughed and said, she’d just change her name and go back to doing nails in the house. It be easier especially since her daughter and grand baby just moved back in.