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The Teals go to Canada Part 2

I am so freaking tired of those self check in kiosks. If you add it up the airlines dropped their payroll by 50% because you do your own check in. However, the airline tickets haven’t dropped by much. Also I prefer to speak to a human I don’t want to self check. Anyhow we get to the airport with 2 and ½ hours till check in and the stupid Kiosk won’t let me check Tuesday in because she doesn’t have a passport. Well how do you explain to a kiosk that if they look online they will see that you don’t need a passport if you are 15 or younger and you are with both parents? So I turn around to the one service agent and I explain that we can’t check in.

“Where is the other passport?” she says.
“Tuesday is 15.”I said.
“She needs a Passport”, She said.
“No, She doesn’t we looked on line and the boarder crossing website says that you don’t need a passport…”I replied.
“I don’t care what the website said”, just than her eyes bulged out of her head and she grew 15 feet and had hooves and horns, and a giant pitch fork.
“United Airlines does not send any one out of the country with out a pass port. HA Ha HA ha.” She said in a voice that sounded like Linda Blair in the exorcist.
“She will have to get a passport before she gets on the plain”
“We can just stay home.” DeAnn says.
Just than I looked at Tuesday and she mouthed the words “I looked” while she was crying. I knew that Tuesday was right she is not a moron.

So I instantly put on my shield of light and picked up three small stones and grabbed my sling, and let the barrage of verbal stones fly.
“What the %^&* the federal government says its ok but United is not going to comply?”
“I am sorry sir? But it is Policy”
“Screw your policy; we have to get on this plane in 2 hours.”
“She will not be getting on the plane sir”
“Yes she will, we are …”
“No, Sir you will have to…”
“NO, SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?”

Just than she caved and said follow me, I though she was going to take me to Airport jail but I was ready. She walked us over to one of her Demonic cohorts and the fight started over, again. About 40 min. later the second troll discovered that Tuesday was right, and wrote a not for all of the other gates so we wouldn’t have a problem the rest of the flight.

At the end of the experience the Troll turned in to this beautiful princess that needed some hair color so I gave her a card with a free color attached and a hug from the Ryan the Giant Slayer.

Ryan Teal
Capello Salon
Soon to be TEAL
503-659-3626

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As some of you may know DeAnnalyn and I were lucky enough to be nominated in two categories and win one category at the “NORTH AMERICAN HAIRDRESSER OF THE YEAR AWARDS”. We have submitted and tried for years to just get a nomination and not to mention a win. Well early this year I found out through our photographer “Babak” that there is another award called the “CANADIAN MIRROR AWARDS”, and that we should submit to them. After some research I found out that the only category that we would be eligible for, would be the “International Hairdresser of the Year Award.”

So deadline for the entries was mid- February, so I got my CD together and the cash and between clients and teaching a class at the local Beauty School I submitted our work. The work that we submitted was the images that we submitted to NAHA for the “Hairdresser of the Year Award” category that we were not finalists in.

Anyhow early March I received a phone call.

“Hello…”

Hello is this Ryan Teal?”

“Yes”

“This is ……. From Canadian Hairdresser Magazine”

“Oh SH*&, Hang on, Hold on I got to sit down” I knew that this would be the phone call. Canadian Hairdresser Magazine is the company that puts on the Mirror Awards.

“OK, so you are about to make my day or ruin my week.” I said.

“Ha ha ha ha, well I think I am going to make your day.”

“Whoo, Who”. I screamed I didn’t even let her tell me that I was nominated I just started explaining how much I loved her magazine and how the Canadians are the coolest and oh wait.

“Am I Nominated?”

“Yes” She said.

Back I went into the barrage of how much I loved her magazine, Toronto, I might have even proposed Marriage of course we would have to move to a Suburban Home and have a Cable Drama. (Knowing my body shape we could call it “Really Big Love”)

I think after another 30 min. she was able to talk me off the phone and hang up.

So the first people to find out were DeAnnalyn and her client. After so many bad words that the client thought I might have had a mental problem De asked me to stop cussing and tell her what was going on. After that I went through the same chain of phone calls that I did for the NAHA Awards, The Models, The Crew, The Photographer, My Mom, and Tuesday our Daughter.

Tuesday, is great at organizing events and travel she is the perfect assistant for anyone who does a lot of traveling. So that evening she was on it she, scheduled our Hotel, Booked our Flights, Scheduled reservations and restaurants and double checked the Passport information. One thing that was surprising to me was that as a child traveling with both of her parents all she needed was a birth certificate.

Tune in Next week when you her me say, “NO, SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?”

Ryan Teal

Capello Salon

503-358-9032

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