Remember the yellow pages? · Undependent Women's Club

Remember the yellow pages?

I remembered the experience a few days ago and just wanted to share it for grins and giggles. I can do that now but at the time it was a challenge. Many years ago I had a studio I worked out of behind my home. I taught yoga & meditation classes, saw clients for healing and did foot reflexology. One day a woman from the yellow pages called me to put a listing in the yellow pages. This was before energy work or even yoga was well known. Massage was beginning to grow so she suggested I put my ad under massage. When the new book came out I was horrified to find that my listing was in the section with women of the night! I came right after Harrisburg Fantasy Girls. OMG. For the next year + any time I got a phone call from a man I had to be really, really clear about what I actually do and don't do. One evening I did have a man insist that this was what he wanted but I felt really nervous. He mentioned that his friends said it would help him relax. I had my daughter lock the doors to the house. If he was expecting a different happy ending he didn't get it. It may have been an undercover cop checking me out also. I still had to fight the phone company. A letter from an attorney did the trick. The ad should have been placed under Massage Therapy! I hadn't looked, I trusted the sales rep to know.

How about you? Any crazy business stories?

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