Pandifest '99 Part II

Welcome to....

Getting Wild in Ohio with Pervie & Co.

We snaked through evening rush hour traffic behind Pam's Purple Chariot, trying to keep up with her. Losing her at a red light where she "went" and we "didn't" was no problem. Pam merely parked her car in the middle of the road til we got the green and could rejoin her.
We finally arrived at our Ohio destination. Going into the secret backdoor of the "New Attitude Salon" we were greeted by darkness and a cloud of smoke. Our eyes adjusted to the lighting after being in the bright daylight and we discovered we were indeed in the Pervie's secret lair-her smoking room. When the urge to light up comes across her, she puts her client du jour under the dryer and heads to this little nook to grab a cig. And from the amount of smoke still filling the room, and my Lungs, we could tell she had just finished quenching her thirst in anticipation of our arrival.
We noticed that Pam had disappeared into the darkness and taking her place as guide was another of the Pervie's minions, her daughter, Shelly.
We all smiled widely at this first meeting with Shelly. It was great to finally meet her face to face! She had with her two bewitching small creatures also of the Pervie clan-her children Ashley & Alex. They even let this old Slug take their picture.

Alex & Ashley pose for the camera.

Ashley was looking forward to starting Kindergarten in the fall we discovered and is a very well behaved & beautiful young lady. Alex was also just as proud of his recent Potty Training Accomplishment & was full of that 3 year old boyish charm. It was nice to meet ya kids!
We were each wondering to ourselves at this point how Shelley, Pam, Ashley & Alex, folks who appeared so Normal could possibly be related to this thing we called the Pervie. A freak of nature?...perhaps. Time would soon reveal the answers we weary travelers came to Ohio to seek.
We crept down the narrow hallway toward the brightly lit room where we were told we would find Pervie plying her Hair Trade. We were finally face to face with this Woman of Mystery.
The Pervie was heard well before we spied her. She whirled around and let out a screech of delight!
"PAAAAAAAAAAANNDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"

All heads turned in the Salon and witnessed many hugs and smiles between us all. Soon it was back to the business at hand-to finish with the many customers awaiting her magic touch.

One of Pervie's faithful clients.

Pervie turned out to be quite the Dynamo-a blonde Tazmanian Devil in drag! I wondered how any one person could have that much energy. Little did we all know what Pervie had in store for us all. Bwwaaaaahhhhh!
After chatting with Pervie & Shelly a bit while they worked, the salon began to clear of bewildered customers.
Pervie had jokingly said if we stopped to see her she would do our hair. It turns out the Joke and Dye was on us as this Pervie wasn't joking after all! She mesmerized first one, then another, then another of our Trio into taking the Hot Seat & getting The Hair Works!

Sluggy before the Cherry Red Dye.

Pandi feeling a tad of trepidation?

Pandi gets the giggles while Shelly turns up the heat and Judi looks on.

Judi takes her turn at beautification.

Judi's ready to be the Belle of the Ball.

It was starting to get late so we all posed for one last group shot with our Mascot Swirly too!

Youngstown's Best lookin' chics.

We caravaned down the road a piece to a local eatery for some dinner before heading back to the road. We ate, drank and talked about everything and everybody!!! Then it was a quick stop at the store for Cigs for my copatriots and a bonus find of Pokemon Cards!LOL Tickled Pink with our finds and our fabulous make-over afternoon with Pervie & her clan we bid our farewells for now & looked forward to even more fun together in Minnesota later in the week.
In true Pervie style, as she bid us goodbye she took out her teeth and waved them in the air at us as she drove off down the road for home!lol
Still laughing and shaking our heads at her parting image, we pointed our Cougar west and took off down I-80 toward our next stop outside of Chicago, IL.