Conversations from another reality...

[jsbowden]

So, I'm in the kitchen/break room making tea (Lipton, with plenty of sugar, because I grew up in the south, and all you and your funky foreign teas can bite me), and the conversation going on is about how you can tell when the maid service has been through.

Okay, so maybe things here are a bit different than the rest of the Commonwealth (of the four people in the kitchen getting coffee or tea, including me, three currently have maid service, and we used to at one point). Growing up? I didn't know a single person who had maid service.

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[omarius.livejournal.com]

My folks and other families we knew would sometimes have a "cleaning lady" once a week, which I guess is sort of like maid service, except mom would usually be cleaning right along with her.

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I did, but that's because I went to high school with people who lived in Potomac.

I lived in Silver Spring. So we, well, didn't.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Well, you did live in Mathews...and since you weren't dirt poor, that only leaves more money than god (seriously...there are what, 5 middle class families in Mathews? The rest are either watermen or visiting their zillion dollar summer houses).

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I thought Silver Spring is generally considered fairly affluent...being next door to Chevy Chase and Bethesda? Or is this a recent thing?

[(Anonymous)]

I always said we were aquatic white trash--boats pulled up on shore in the back yard instead of cars on blocks in the front yard. At least we had the fishing; I don't know how you Gloucester folks survived before Wal-Mart brought cheap canned grits and scrapple to the county.

[robeli.livejournal.com]

Lots of kids I went to school with had cleaning lady's too.
I didn't really think anything odd about it when we had one and sometimes still wish we did - if it wasn't for the 'cleaning up because the clearning service is coming' thing.