Did any of you have a maid?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 4:53pm

When I was growing up, all the middle class people on tv had a maid. Did any of you ever have a maid?

Alice - Brady Bunch
Hazel - Hazel
Mr. French - Family Affair
Florence - The Jeffersons
Florida - Maude
Mrs. Livingston - Courtship of Eddie's Father
Teresa - All in the Family

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 4:54pm

We did. She wasn't live-in though.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 4:54pm

We had long-time cleaning ladies, but never a maid.

But, we were also an Asian household.

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 4:55pm

yeah, we called her "mom."

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 4:56pm

No - but our family would not have made good TV viewing.

[luvliza89]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:02pm

Hardly.

But my mom did have one growing up who did live with the family.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:03pm

Everybody ought to have a maid!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:03pm

I grew up in latin america. Lower middle-class. And we had a maid. Live-in. Everyone has a maid back home.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:06pm

We had and I have a cleaning lady that comes every two weeks.

Not quite a maid, but it sure is nice!

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:23pm

We had one but I wouldn't let her clean my room because she didn't clean it the way I liked it.

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:24pm

^ now THAT's gay!

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:32pm

RobbO--my partner is the same way. It's really tragic when they have to have it done "their way." I've offered to get us a maid, but NO! He won't have it.

Our place is spotless, though. But I swear he'll have a melt down before long. He gets like Joan Crawford on a bender. It's not pretty.

The only time we had a maid growing up was the year we lived with my grandmother (on my mom's side). She had a maid (not live-in).

My father grew up with a mini-fleet of servants. All "live-in." They had a nanny, cook, chauffeur, butler and gardener.

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:35pm

wouldn't joan crawford on a bender be exactly the same as joan crawford?

Updated On: 8/30/06 at 05:35 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:37pm

I was trying to elaborate for the kids playing along at home.

But you're right...

That one was from the Department of Redundancy Department.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:38pm

Yeah, in India we have multiple "servants" per household.

PC-types, back off. That's what they're called there.

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:41pm

wow. holly hobby AND servants - i think i love you.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:41pm

Servants? That's nothing.

My father's parents referred to their cook & chauffer (who were married) as a "couple." That was the term back then.

They had a "couple" living with them.

My Mom's mom called hers a "cleaning woman."

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:43pm

I won't say what term my grandmother used.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:43pm

...And there ends today's lesson in "PC."

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:45pm

The word PC means about as much to a woman born in the South prior to 1920 as the word Snapple would have meant to Aristotle.

[RobbO]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:45pm

it's okay calvin my grandmother often tells me stories about how some of the coloreds are nice.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:46pm

Had to let her go as times are tough

She was with us since we had the estate

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:46pm

The funny thing, RobbO, is that she used to ask my mother when her "colored girl" was coming to clean -- and my mother's maid was white.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:47pm

we had a mammy named Mamie who we shared on alternate days with Nita and Crocket who lived across the street. I'm ashamed.

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:48pm

Calvin---Now THAT's truly color-blind.

RobbO--I'm shocked that you would introduce the term "coloreds" in this thread.

But not surprised, at all.