Step one is that the nice Thai ladies wash your feet in a small plastic basin and it feels all too familiar to those awkward moments on the last night of youth camp. Next, you sit on a nice padded cushion above a tank of hundreds of cruising little sucker fish. Then you put your feet in. Instantly those hundreds of fish latch onto your feet and the first human reaction is to yank your feet out of the water. But you don’t. You clinch your teeth, scream, squirm, and ball up your fists real tight. The fish are eagerly nibbling away your dead flesh. It’s a cross between an unwelcome tickle fight and a scene from Indiana Jones. The first five minutes are horrific and hilarious. There’s no way to get around that. The remaining time is relaxing, soothing, and you’re even level-headed enough to snap a quick photo.
PS: Mom, they don’t really suck your blood. In the biz we call that a catchy title.
Taylor Brooks
January 25th, 2010
What’s the purpose of this again?
Mom
January 26th, 2010
Good grief, you know me far too well! Is this some sort of bizarre, extreme pedicure?
Gene
January 31st, 2010
Most women seem to be fine with it, but how do they deal with the hair on your legs?