Posted by trouble on March 1, 2002, at 20:12:26
In reply to Re: squares » trouble, posted by Dinah on March 1, 2002, at 18:29:01
Dinah,
Oh well, I misread that ladies-ladies post and thought it said upper class.
So I was thinkning about the kind of Ivy leaguers I clean houses for, 4,000 square feet and no books in sight, all the furniture outsized b/c it needs to be huge so as not to appear drawfed by the spaciousness, I can't reach the ceiling fans even w/ a ladder and double extender, so they have people come in just to do that, the pools are thoroughly cleaned 3x a week even in winter all the wood has its own special furniture polish, once a week I walk into the house which is often swarming w/blue collar laborers of every specialization, including a man that cleans daughter's 30,000 $ engagement ring, the house is always awesomely immaculate, and I stand there snickering, knowing how they'll have me fill the next 6 hours. Behind the scenes cleaning, chair rungs, the inside bottom corners of guest room closets, the glass case of unused VERSACE salad bowls etc. These country club suburbanites, I hazard to say are a different breed from the rest of us.I USED to have a problem w/solid middle class homeowners until I started working more for the terrifying upper echelon, which means more money for less labor, but the rules of engagement are something else. I used to lose jobs all the time over things like playing w/ the baby. It's a don't speak unless spoken to kind of clientele, they don't take kindly to arousal. A polite person does not unduly arouse others. So whenever I'm around them I just think potato. I'm a potato, wiping the countertop, I'm a potato getting paid good money. Potato that's me, goin home soon and watching TV etc...
Compared to this rarified atomosphere I consider cleaning a middle class home a practical debauch.
take care,
trouble
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