ironporer

I don't get some women. I have made the offer to my poor overworked wife that I would be happy to pay for some deprived 19 yr old Spanish or Sweedish au pair to help her out...but she keeps refusing.

gruffbrown

What a very nice offer to your wife. If you get one with big breasts, she can dust the candle sticks at the same time as she does the mirror, it will save you money tell her

snowbunny

Some women can't bear to have another woman in the house rearranging things or even messing with them at all.

britontour

I'm not sure its the house rearranging she would be worried about.

Englishmum

Ha ha ha!

You've just reminded me of something. My Brummie friend Elaine in Singapore had a live-in housemaid from the Philippines. She was in her twenties and quite attractive. Elaine was 40 and trying to keep her looks and figure. Elaine's husband was in his mid-forties and had obviously had too many business lunches and dinners - he could be described as 'portly' and not the sort of chap most women would fancy (his wife excepted of course).

Anyway, Elaine was telling me that she was getting very worried and nervous with her maid's behaviour. She thought that her maid had some sort of crush on her husband (I did my best not to snigger) and asked me to go round to her apartment to observe what happened every time her husband arrived home from work.

It was astonishing....Perly (Perlita) rushed to the door to welcome 'sir' and take off his shoes. She would already have a cold beer poured out for him, ask him about his day and plump up the cushions on the sofa. She totally ignored Elaine whilst she was doing this and then when dinner was served she only paid attention to 'sir' and not the rest of the family. Poor Elaine was mortified but far too polite to put the maid in her place. The husband was highly amused (and flattered no doubt).

It was quite clear that the maid had an agenda as she knew that 'sir' was a highly paid company director and his wealth would have taken her and her family back home out of their life of drudgery and poverty.....it wasn't entirely unknown for expat marriages in the Far East to break down and the wife being replaced by a local Asian beauty half the age of the Western male - on the floor below mine in our condo the husband's wife and daughter returned to the USA and the maid stayed on as his employee.....it was fairly obvious why.

Me.....I only employed ugly housemaids LOL! I'd love to have one here but the current wage for a full-time live in maid in Singapore (6 day week) is up to S$450 per MONTH (US $278) for a very experienced one (S$320-350 per month for Indonesian maids) whereas here the Filipinas charge US$ 80 for just three hours of cleaning.....

Jerseygirl

[QUOTE=Englishmum]Ha ha ha!


It was astonishing....Perly (Perlita) rushed to the door to welcome 'sir' and take off his shoes. She would already have a cold beer poured out for him, ask him about his day and plump up the cushions on the sofa. She totally ignored Elaine whilst she was doing this and then when dinner was served she only paid attention to 'sir' and not the rest of the family. Poor Elaine was mortified but far too polite to put the maid in her place. The husband was highly amused (and flattered no doubt).


I'd have thrown her out with trash long ago. ]

Celtic_Angel

maybe if they were paid more they wouldn't have to resort to stealing husbands..

GlasgowBoy

If that's the case, I can heartily recommend our cleaners. Only caveat is you may wish to learn to say 'get your hands off my passport' in a variety of Eastern European languages.

Bloody GlasgowGirl told me she was doing Marketing in Newport Beach.

woodsey

alright mate, nice to see you on here.

GlasgowBoy

Cheers - it was great to meet you all the other night.

Eskimo

shouldn't you be in a TV dectector van eating donuts ?

GlasgowBoy

That's tomorrow. The lovies will have to fend for themselves if anyone wants to blow them up before then