hmmmmm

Yesterday, because I am still downing DayQuil like it is Diet Coke and because we were expecting a house full of company, I called the cleaning service.   When I first decided to use a house cleaning service (about 2 seconds after I was married), I opened the phone book and immediately saw an ad for Oriental Lady Cleaning, Inc. Hmmmm. Odd, that. Everyone knows people are not to be referred to as oriental. Surely, this must be an error! But still, I called anyway because I wanted to know what the deal with that was. A very nice woman with a thick Chinese accent answered the phone and explained that with their service, the cleaning people are all married couples who come in and clean your house in half the time it would take one person.  It sounded alright. I booked some service than got brave and asked why she calls her business Oriental Lady. She said because all the couples are Chinese, then hung up. I don't think she really got what I meant, but ok. It's her business, she can call it whatever she wants.
When the couple came to clean our house, they were so nice! They were a Buddhist couple and the wife sang beautiful songs while she cleaned. Even on days when they were fighting as most married people do, she would sing and even her husband would  stop being mad and just listen. They also drove a Mercedes which often made me think I had chosen the wrong line of work. The last time they were here, I asked them why the owner of the company called it Oriental Lady and didn't they find that offensive (I did). The wife just hummed and they told me to have a nice day, then left. I guess I will never get the answer! And it still totally bugs me.
Yesterday, when the cleaners arrived, it was not my favorite singing couple! They sent a new couple. The wife doesn't sing! The husband doesn't even sing! WTF? What they do do, is put everything on the shelves according to height. This was a shelf in my bathroom after they left:

I think it is odd it goes from tall to short and not the other way around. I also think it is odd they put the room deodorizer right next to my hairspray...imagine the bad things that could happen!!!! AAAAH!
So basically, they sent MONK to clean my house.
And speaking of MONK, we keep forgetting to pimp our brother's newest MONK book and Sharona is back!

Comments

[claudine hellmuth]

LOL!! I can't stand to have cleaning people because it makes me crazy to have strangers in my house. Love how they arranged your bottles!
xxxxox

[Ronda]

Ok that's just odd...I like to arrange things by what they are used for...hair stuff together, perfumes together, lotions together...you get the point. But I never line things up. I group, typically with taller items in the back and shorter in the front.

And yeah, it would make me uncomfortable to have a stranger come in to rearrange and clean. Honestly, they would probably take one look at my messy art studio and run for the door!

Ronda

[Andi]

The arranged goods look like the "bars" commercial for the cellphones. Maybe it is subliminal advertising, instead of having those ad magnets on their cars, they arrange household goods instead :)

[suzi finer]

HELLO...did you never think that maybe they are Jewish?!!!
Love.

[pomskie]

I loved your experience with the cleaners! I wouldn't have cleaners in because I would have to have my house clean before they arrived, lol.