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I imagine Carol Brady spent her days contemplating the exigencies of running an American family at the dawn of the Space Age. One in which the inherent tensions of separate beginnings were played out daily and compounded by the conflicting personalities involved.
Mornings spent in a sort of existential ennui rooted in the understanding of her rapidly changing role in modern society and the looming spectre of middle age approaching.
…that, or she was busy making jello with fruit floating in it. :o)
Oh and every month/6 weeks, I have a young lady (she is from Gabon) come over and she cleans while I organize things and clean too. Basically we work together. I LOVE THAT! Sometimes we talk, sometimes we don’t but it is so relaxing and nice to have her.
I like certain types of service, appreciate it and accept it without any need to “bond” with the server and show some kind of implicit apology for their serving me. I am respectful but don’t socialize with waiters/waitresses and feel quite comfortable in getting other kinds of service (i.e. hate self-service in food places, even to the point of making my own coffee). But I am definately an American in other ways, i.e. not liking certain kinds of service.
I like to carry my own stuff, I like to pick out clothes and other stuff without help unless I ask for it.
I contrast my attitude to certain non-American friends, for example in Japan, a friend who will engage sales people in stores for tons of help, advice, conversation, comfort, etc. In Brazil, sales staff HOVER. They get close and start suggesting shoes, colors, etc. Don’t like that kind of service.
My housekeeper is a US citizen from Colombia. Her English has improved a lot in the 25 years I’ve known her but initially she’d’ve had a hard time finding remunerative work other than manual labor. As it is she has saved enough to be building a house in Colombia for her retirement & is able to rent it now to supplement her income.
If the photos are forced to be released, Obama has already set himself up to look good by saying he was not going to release them. If shit goes down as a result of them being published, people will know it wasn’t his choice.
denton- its very well written and the characters are much more complex than the comments on the OT would have you believe. Don’t judge it by what you read here. Judge nothing by what you read here, now that I think about it.
benson, I agree about the housekeeper but possibly for different reasons. I dislike the race/class implications. But in my last residence which was a coop it was amazing to see how many people with considerably less income than us had ‘household help’. Of course Mrs D is not happy about my feelings on the subject.
I imagine Carol Brady spent her days contemplating the exigencies of running an American family at the dawn of the Space Age. One in which the inherent tensions of separate beginnings were played out daily and compounded by the conflicting personalities involved.
Mornings spent in a sort of existential ennui rooted in the understanding of her rapidly changing role in modern society and the looming spectre of middle age approaching.
…that, or she was busy making jello with fruit floating in it. :o)
Oh and every month/6 weeks, I have a young lady (she is from Gabon) come over and she cleans while I organize things and clean too. Basically we work together. I LOVE THAT! Sometimes we talk, sometimes we don’t but it is so relaxing and nice to have her.
Aw, Denton, you had to have been there. (Good Wife)
So, what happened to the black bicyclist?
regarding, help:
I like certain types of service, appreciate it and accept it without any need to “bond” with the server and show some kind of implicit apology for their serving me. I am respectful but don’t socialize with waiters/waitresses and feel quite comfortable in getting other kinds of service (i.e. hate self-service in food places, even to the point of making my own coffee). But I am definately an American in other ways, i.e. not liking certain kinds of service.
I like to carry my own stuff, I like to pick out clothes and other stuff without help unless I ask for it.
I contrast my attitude to certain non-American friends, for example in Japan, a friend who will engage sales people in stores for tons of help, advice, conversation, comfort, etc. In Brazil, sales staff HOVER. They get close and start suggesting shoes, colors, etc. Don’t like that kind of service.
“But in my last residence which was a coop it was amazing to see how many people with considerably less income than us had ‘household help’.”
Denton;
Exactly. And since your coop was across the park from where I presently live, I think we’re talking about the same group.
My housekeeper is a US citizen from Colombia. Her English has improved a lot in the 25 years I’ve known her but initially she’d’ve had a hard time finding remunerative work other than manual labor. As it is she has saved enough to be building a house in Colombia for her retirement & is able to rent it now to supplement her income.
If the photos are forced to be released, Obama has already set himself up to look good by saying he was not going to release them. If shit goes down as a result of them being published, people will know it wasn’t his choice.
denton- its very well written and the characters are much more complex than the comments on the OT would have you believe. Don’t judge it by what you read here. Judge nothing by what you read here, now that I think about it.
benson, I agree about the housekeeper but possibly for different reasons. I dislike the race/class implications. But in my last residence which was a coop it was amazing to see how many people with considerably less income than us had ‘household help’. Of course Mrs D is not happy about my feelings on the subject.