My friend tells me the LA Tan on the other side of town-you know, next to the abandoned shopping mall-is hiring. I thought, 'What could be a more easy an innocent job than helping more people get skin cancer for a relatively nice tanning chain?'
So I printed off an application online. You know the kind; a whole 2mm space to answer each question.
An important detail to include is that I didn't know where this LA Tan is b/c not much brings me to the side of town with the abandoned shopping mall. In any case, I'm driving down the street looking for the big yellow "LA Tan" sign with the palm trees and realized I must've missed it. So I turn around and realize the reason that I missed it was b/c the outdated sign had letters missing. I pull into the parking lot that is surrounded by a chain fence and has weeds growing all through it. The LA Tan store is in the middle of a 3 store front building; to the left is a "Roll Your Own Tobacco" store with bars on the windows the store on the right is empty.
Reluctantly I park and make my way to the building. Coming out of the store is a drag queen who glares at me like she would love nothing more than to kick my little ass. On the inside I realize that the wall had been knocked down between LA Tan and the empty store and that the empty store is actually where the tanning beds were.....lined up in open space......no rooms, no dividers, nothing.
However, because I am in desperate need for a job, I politely handed my application to J-Wow and left, scoping for the angry drag queen before I ventured out into the parking lot.