The Two Dorothys
We made the decision to pull back on our cleaning lady (is "cleaning lady" pc? Should I be calling her something else?) right after the holidays. We had a wonderful woman named Dorothy who was uber-energetic and did a pretty good job when she came over every two weeks. Turns out, all those checks we were giving her were getting squirreled away somewhere. By the end of the year, she informed us that she was packing her bags and moving home to Poland because she said, "I have a degree in engineering, I can't clean houses for the rest of my life!" She subsequently sent us her sister - Agnes. While Agnes was very good, in an effort to save a few bucks each month, we've cut down her to once a month. The ramifications of that decision are for another post (most notably I am now on latrine duty). For this particular story, you have to know that my sister also used Dorothy to clean her house. Having your (now-ex) cleaning lady share the same name as your m