Because I firmly believe in the adage “Treat others the way you would like to be treated” I tend to be rather trusting. I don’t screw people around, I treat people as fairly as I know how to do, and I trust people will do the same for me. I can have strong opinions, and will express them here, but don’t generally get impolite or rude in daily conversation. Even with idiots. I heard the saying “Karma is only a bitch if you are” the other day, and thought it was pretty true actually.
Anyone who knows me well, knows a couple of things about me. I like my house to be clean, but am NOT enamored with picking up after other people… sometimes not even myself. I like things to be put away, but I’m not organized… thankfully, I make a good enough living, I can hire someone ELSE to come in, put things away and clean the toilets every other week or so…. To me, that’s money well spent. Especially being the mom of two boys, who sometimes don’t have the world’s greatest AIM.
A few months ago, the cleaning woman I hired got a really good full time opportunity, so quit her cleaning business. I was really happy for her, but was disappointed I was going to have to look for someone else. I placed an online ad, and immediately had several responses. Because they were all pretty similar, I decided to interview the first person who responded. She turned out to be a young mom, building up a business to help supplement her husband’s income, in order to raise their adorable little 10 month old girl. She seemed to be pretty professional, but over time, the cleaning became really sloppy, and she was not really all that warm and fuzzy to deal with.
I had checked a couple of the references she gave me at the start, had interviewed her and given her plenty of time and slack when her daughter was ill, so finally, upon seeing that she wasn’t going to EVER clean behind my bathroom door, or move anything on the counter before wiping it down, I decided to let her go.
I figured I would rather send an email than text her letting her know I had to stop doing business with her, but realized I didn’t have her email address. She’d told me she was setting up a website, so I Googled her name to see if her site was up and running, and if her email address might be attached…
Instead of her cleaning business, I was SHOCKED to see her name and photo come up in a news article about how she and another woman had spent a year in jail for assaulting a 90 year old woman in a mall parking lot. I was polite when I let her go, but was certainly relieved to change the combination on the door lock. After the relief wore off, I realized I had to get back to finding someone to trust in my home.
While that’s weird enough, this story just gets better and better… I am not kidding, the following is absolutely, 100% true…
I completely believe God has a sense of humor, and sits up on a cloud laughing his ass off at us sometimes. Not only did he give me a little shocker with the housekeeper I was letting go, he decided to continue the fun. When I went into my email to start going through responses to my new ad, lo and behold, there was a response from an old friend of mine… If you don't remember "Smell Your Underwear Guy, read about him here...
Honest to Christ, you-know-who responded to my ad, telling me he would come and clean for free if I was a “Type ‘A’ Dominant”… good LORD! To each his own I guess, but I can’t think of many things less enticing than a guy I could order around! I don’t like an aggressive man, but I do need my man to be… well… MANLY.
I forwarded the creepy email he sent to CG with the message “Clearly his efforts on the dating site aren’t going so well….” His response was “Or it’s working REALLY, REALLY well and he’s branching out.” … eeeeeeew!
Later...
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