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#51

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:46am

that must have taken days (and made your already plastic-tasting brownies taste even more plastic)

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#52

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:55am

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#53

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:00am

I had one in my childhood, which worked pretty well, because my mom would never wake me up to go to school or cook. For awhile we had a maid who lived in the apartment and we also had another maid who'd come to help her clean a few times a week.

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#54

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:21am

Mamie, I bet you might appreciate this old photo... I always thought it looked like we stepped right out of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

This is "little me" with my grandmother's cleaning woman Catherine. I adored her and followed her around everywhere like a puppy dog. The feeling was mutual. She thought I was a "cute little kid." I used to like to watch her vacuum at Grandma's, and loved the smell and the wheezy, whirring sound of that (really) old vacuum cleaner she used. One day I asked her to show me where she kept it. So, with my father accompanying me, we went to Catherine's house and she showed me the closet where she kept her vacuum cleaner. Dad decided this was "too cute" to pass up as a photo op, so he brought his camera along that day.

(Dad had been a professional photographer in NY, so he brought along his camera almost everywhere out of habit.)

Cue the gorgeous Elmer Bernstein score...

re: Did any of you have a maid?

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#55

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:25am

it's cute until you realize that she owned the little cracker as her slave.

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#56

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:26am

I tried to air brush the dog collar out!

Can you still see that she's got me by the neck?

Damn. Better work on that.

On really warm days, she just used ME as her vacuum cleaner.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#57

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:32am

aww, i didn't read your post the first time to realize that you were the cracker. how sweet.

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#58

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:35am

Aw, gee... thanks awful.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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#59

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:46am

"On really warm days, she just used ME as her vacuum cleaner."

I heard someone say you suck like a Hoover - is that what they were talking about?

#60

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:50am

*blushes*

Well, I don't like to BRAG, but...

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#61

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:52am

Hazel used to work for us, but my father fired her, when he found most of the booze missing. He hired Grindl to replace her.

#62

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:14am

For a while, we had a cleaning lady who came in one day a week.

I never understood why the Bradys needed Alice. WTF did Carol do all day?

#63

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:15am

her hair

#64

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:17am

And practiced singing "O Come All Ye Faithful" in case there were any building collapses in town.

#65

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:20am

i still blame cousin oliver for that building collapse.

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#66

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:23am

Of course. He was a jinx.

#67

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:25am

That's a wonderful picture, b12b. It must bring back warm memories for you. I remember those old vacuums. My gran had one too (only she had to push her own around). Warm, happy memories.

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#68

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:35am

"Catherine, or Change"

#69

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:37am

WonderBoy, my grandmother was like that. She didn't trust the maid she hired with so many different tasks (she didn't do them *right*) that she ended up just letting her go, because there was nothing left for her to do.

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#70

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:40am

our cleaning woman left my mom a "dear john" letter after my mom left too many post-it notes around the house on mirrors and dressers that read "is this clean to you?"

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#71

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:02pm

"And practiced singing "O Come All Ye Faithful" in case there were any building collapses in town."

both as a soprano and a contralto.

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#72

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:09pm

She never did learn anything besides the first verse, however.

#73

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:11pm

Calvin...one verse is all it takes for the miracle to happen!

We had a part time maid...she was my best friend. Doris.

It was so Member of the Wedding.

b12b...that pic from the 40s? :)

#74

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:26pm

"I never understood why the Bradys needed Alice."

Somebody had to stand there and stir the boiling pot. If Carol Brady did it, it would steam the Dippity-Do out of her hair. And then she wouldn't look beautiful when Mike came home.

I always thought that Lisa Douglas on Green Acres needed a maid. She made such a big deal about leaving her Park Avenue life you'd think at least she could get one of those farm women to come in and swish a feather duster around.

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#75

re: Did any of you have a maid?

Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:45pm

doodle--that pic is from around 1965 or '66. I was born in Nov. of '62. (you whipper-snapper, you!!)

And it's KANSAS not Alabammy... which for you "geographically impaired" folks isn't the Deep South. We was a FREE STATE, baby. In the Midwest. As MID as you can get, actually.

But I can't help agreeing that it looks just like Macomb County, Alabammy here, in about 1932.

"Scout" is just around the corner from us. And that's not Catherine, it's Calpurnia!

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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