Housekeeping is a real pain. I can do if when I have to but generally try to make sure I don't have to. I contacted a local mob called Dial-A-Maid and set up a contract with them. It's a fixed price contract so if they finish the work quickly some days it's balanced out by them having to take extra time other days. I find they do a good job.
The maid that they have arranged to do my housework is Carlene. She's relatively young, early twenties is my guess, quite pretty and willing to work hard. She comes around twice a week.
After a while I noticed that Carlene always seemed to spend longer doing the house on Thursdays compared to Mondays. Initially I just chalked it off as one of those things, assuming that she does extra jobs on the Thursday. Like I said earlier, fixed price, so it didn't worry me.
On the first day she came Carlene asked if I minded if she had the TV on while she worked, as she liked to keep an eye on it. It served as a little distraction to her and she assured me it wouldn't interfere with the performance of her duties. It didn't worry me and I told her to go ahead.
Carlene proved to be a good and thorough worker and I had no cause for complaints from the service I was getting. I would have been quite willing to give Dial-A-Maid as a referral if anyone I knew was looking for that sort of service.
If I was asked if I had any complaints about the service the most I could come up with would be a couple of minor things. Not so much complaints as comments. Dial-A-Maid as part of their advertising insisted that their people wear a uniform and Carlene's uniform was a little on the revealing side. Not enough to cause offence, but it gave a sort of counterpoint to my second comment.
Carlene was mildly flirtatious. Nothing obvious and I'm not even sure she was aware of it. It just seemed as natural to her as breathing.
After a couple of months I finally found out why Carlene took longer at her work on Thursdays. There were a couple of soap operas on, and she was hooked on them. You know the sort of thing I mean -- Days of our Wives, The Young and the Breathless, things like that.
Carlene's habit was to spend time doing the lounge room while watching and once it was complete she'd nip into the other rooms whenever the ads were on to continue working. Once the shows were finished she would then concentrate on her work.
Carlene was totally hooked on these shows, to the point that she'd talk to the characters, giving them advice as they staggered from crisis to crisis.
By an odd chance I came across an article on one of these shows that indicated one of Carlene's favourite characters was about to undergo another crisis. I found myself curious as to how Carlene was going to react, so I quietly wandered into the lounge when I realised the big moment was coming up.
Carlene was leaning against the back of the couch, bouncing on her toes and trying to give advice to Mary-Beth, who by an odd coincidence was leaning on the back of a couch watching TV. Mary-Beth was a maid on the show and had to wear a maid's uniform, although more in the French style than the uniform that Carlene wore.
As I think I mentioned earlier, Carlene's uniform was probably a little more abbreviated that Dial-A-Maid wanted, and as she bounced on her toes her skirt was also bouncing, flashing her frilly panties at me.
Carlene was frantically telling Mary-Beth to turn around while Master Pierre was walking sneakily up behind her. The first intimation that Mary-Beth had of trouble ahead was when Pierre lifted her skirt and pulled down her panties. This is daytime TV, remember. We didn't actually see it happen but everyone knew that it had.
Carlene certainly knew what had happened as I couldn't resist the similarities. When Pierre tugged Mary-Beth's panties down I did the same with Carlene's. The squeals from Mary-Beth and Carlene were identical, and I'm sure the shocked faces were the same.
Carlene's shocked "What do you think you're doing?" exactly matched Mary-Beth's.
"I'm letting you find out exactly how Mary-Beth feels right now," I told Carlene. "Look at her. She's facing the same problem. What do you think Pierre will do now?"
