Amazing

I went to my volunteer museum position yesterday. It was so hot we sat
on the porch. One lady is full of stories as she knits a sweater for her
grandson. One story was going to the prom in the 1950's with the old
fashioned garter belts holding up her nylons. She came downstairs in a
vision of beauty floating in her black dress to have her garter belt
break and stockings fall down revealing her fish white legs. She said it
was good she did not deeply care about her date because he was
horrified.

Another was from her daycare providing daughter. A mother picking up her
son seemed upset and the daughter asked what was wrong. She said she
didn't have time to get her son's hair cut. The daughter volunteers to
cut the kid's hair, which made the mother so happy. So this mother tells
her son about the arrangement. He is unsure of this barber. The mother
assures him that this woman has cut her husband's hair for years, who is
bald, and the kid starts bawling.

The amazing story came partially from the intern and partially from this
lady. The intern had an arrangement with a university professor to clean
her house and watch her son in exhange for room and board. At least she
gets her own room in the center of traffic. The lady said a lot of
immigrants work for families she knows as live-in maids for $15 a week,
which is a lot of money coming from poverty. I was amazed because the
cleaning lady living across the street from my parents comes over to
clean my mother's house for $20 an hour. And my mother helps the
cleaning lady clean the house. That is a bargain compared to
professional cleaning service companies charge per hour.

My sister didn't believe me when I said that (I was living at home at
the time) and asked my mother about it. Yes, mother admitted to helping
the lady she is paying to clean her house. She usually pays her $60-80 a
day every other week depending if she just does the first floor or the
second floor too. I think the cleaning lady got a job somewhere from
much back pain and stopped cleaning houses for people, but she will
clean Mom's house because their friends. Mom says the lady likes the
Swiffer mop I got for Mom's birthday last year. Post later. Bye!