I got laid off after a hostile take over. We could barely make it on Dave's salary but we could squeak by. It was all the more frustrating to watch our nerdy neighbor Vince next door buy a sports car a motorcycle AND an RV in rapid succession. Dave found out that Vince had inherited a very nice amount of money from his grandparents. They had been killed in car accident. Dave could not get Vince to reveal the amount of money that he had come into but he did learn that if Vince didn't love his job so much, he could probably get buy for quite a while on his inheritance.
Vince loved his job at the university library. It was low stress, lots of fun, and Vince had been there so long that he was due a very nice pension in a few years. Dave had deduced that once Vince retired he would be living very large indeed. Vince is a nice guy he lets us use his pool in the summer and he cooks us some fantastic dinners when we come over but he is the biggest slob on the planet. His house is immaculate on the outside, as is his kitchen, but the rest of the place!
Why the rest off the house can not be as spotless as his kitchen is a mystery that I can't comprehend. It looks like the proverbial bomb went off. Books strewn about in cast off clothes and trash. He can't seem to throw anything away. I have tried to fix Vince up with some very nice women but they all flee in terror once he takes them home. He's not bad looking, tall, a bit thick and geeky, but certainly someone most women would look twice at. With lots of time on my hands now I thought that I could solve Vince's problem as well as help myself and Dave.
One sunny day in spring I knocked on Vince's door and made a proposal.
"Vince, I think that you need a maid. I am willing to work as one for you for a very good rate. In a couple of weeks, if you give me carte blanche, I can have this place looking spotless. Just think, the next time I fix you up with someone like Rosie Howell, again she won't run screaming from your house in horror of the mess. You're a handsome guy, you should have no problems getting women to spend the night IF you let me clean your house."
Vince invited me in and we discussed my proposal over tea. Once Vince knew that Dave was OK with the idea we agreed on my fee. I asked Vince for more than the hourly rate I was making when I was employed. To my surprise and utter delight, Vince did not even bat an eye. Vince wanted a regular employment with a contract. He also wanted to buy me uniforms for the job. I thought the uniform idea was a little weird but it was HIS money and I DID need the job. We agreed that I would start the next Monday. I would actually get some paid holidays and could even earn time and a half. Vince was quite good at employment contracts. At the university he supervised and drew up the contracts for the student workers. I thought that I had made a real sweet deal for myself.
The uniforms arrived Monday morning just after Dave had left for work. Vince starts work late. He doesn't go in until around noon most days. He wanted me to start working promptly at 9:00 A.M. He actually had a time clock thingie rigged up to a laptop computer in the kitchen. The thing had face recognition software and I had to push a button when I logged in or out. I'd forgotten how anal Vince could be. Anyway the uniforms were a shock. There were ten of them all in pastel colors with the day of the week they were to be worn stitched in the label with my name inscribed above the right breast. The things were one piece and fit me well but they were ridiculously short. The neckline also plunged. To go with each maid's dress was a pair of thigh high stockings in matching colors. I ALMOST called off the whole arrangement then and there but I had just had an expensive dental bill and Dave's car needed new brakes so I swallowed my pride and slid on Monday's outfit.
In the end I rationalized it by reminding myself that Vince had seen me in a bikini many times around his pool and the silly maid dresses covered a lot more of me than my bikinis did. If Vince wanted to pay for a vicarious thrill by having me dress that way, who was I to argue?
Before the uniforms arrived I had never really considered that Vince looked at me THAT way. I'm not conceited, I am quite attractive. I stand fife five and top out at 110 pounds. My hair is long and black and falls to the middle of my back. I have blue eyes, high cheekbones, and a nice complexion. No man has ever complained about the size of my bust and I have fantastic legs if I do say so myself. I am committed to Dave as he is tall and handsome with sandy hair and broad shoulders. I knew that Dave would NOT be happy about the uniforms and would probably say something rude to Vince if he found out about them. I could not afford to lose this job before it began. I decided on subterfuge. My schedule would have me in and out of Vince's house after Dave left for work and before he got home. There was no reason that he would ever have to find out about them. I was sure that Vince's infatuation was just a passing phase. Once enough time had passed so that my husband could see that my new employer was harmless, I could spring the uniforms on him. Vince also took care of some of the most minor details. A laundry bag was provided for my uniforms. Once a week the bag would be picked up at my house and the uniforms would be professionally laundered and returned. With any luck Dave would never even SEE the uniforms until I was good and ready to produce them.
I Tried to think happy thoughts as I made my way over to Vince's house. I fastened my hair in a ponytail. I was grateful for the hedge row that hid most of the front of my driveway from passing traffic. I rang Vince's front door. He opened it almost immediately. He was dressed casually as he usually was for work. Although he was polite enough to try and mask it, I saw his eyes drink in me and the outfit. I clocked in and he showed me the cleaning supplies. I decided to start with the bathrooms. Vince watched me, grinning blissfully for about fifteen uninterrupted minuets and then, fortunately. Left for the kitchen and began to get himself breakfast.
I had an eight hour day ahead of me with a half hour lunch and two fifteen minute breaks. I put in my ear buds and tried to groove to the music suitable for cleaning a house that I had loaded on my I Pod. I had made considerable progress on the main bathroom and had whipped the the half bathroom off the kitchen into first class shape by the time I was done. I was able to make progress in those two rooms only because Vince had cleaned them occasionally. I figured that the living room would take two weeks all by itself. I made sure that I punched in and out for lunch and at the end of the day. Vince had given me a spare set of keys to lock up as I left. I made it home and was out of the maid outfit and into a hot shower before Dave got home. I greeted my husband with a big kiss and told him that my day went well. I would get paid every second Friday of the month. I figured my maid job would keep the wolf away from the door for as long as we needed. I was submitting resumes electronically all over town. I thought that I would not be out of a "real" job long.
The first week passed uneventfully. The only irksome thing was that with each passing day, Vince spent more and more time watching me work. I realized that the way the uniforms were designed that when I bent over Vince had a clear shot either up my skirt or down my bosom. I thought about putting on a pair of shorts but I didn't want Vince to be offended, as he DID try to make it look like he Wasn't looking. So I compromised by buying some very large granny panties and making sure that my bras were new and tight to minimize my exposure. The uniforms were not a problem when Vince was not around. The fact that they were so non-confining allowed me to really use all the body English I needed. I was also grateful that I didn't have to clean them because most days when I returned home, I was filthy.
I felt that I really earned my first paycheck. Most of the first floor had had at least an initial cleaning. I could not believe the number of Trash bags I had filled. The carpets, the furniture and the window treatments would all need to be steam cleaned. Vince would have a cleaner delivered when I was ready for it, I noticed that there was an extra fifty dollars in my paycheck.
"What is the extra for Vince?" I asked.