Live without maids
I went to Chat’s place last Saturday. She’s an art dealer and is the secretary of our family doctor. I had a small painting framed. She showed me an Arturo Luz for delivery to a house in Dasmarinas Village, Makati. I am not sure if it’s been sold or for viewing pa lang. It belongs daw to her friend, pinapabenta lang sa kanya. She said so many people are looking for Sanso, kasi daw he has Alzheimer’s na. She doesn’t have Sanso daw.
I don’t either.
She wanted to give me 4 tickets to the Manila Art Fair on the 3rd floor of SM Aura. She couldn’t find the envelope containing the tickers. Her maid wasn’t there. She spent half hour looking for the tickets. Sayang din yun kasi I would be going with my children and their friends eh P200 per pax. I told Chat to call up her maid. Hindi rin sila nagka-intindihan sa telepono. “Nakakainis ka naman, di ba sabi ko iwan mo dito sa mesa para madali kong makikita?”
While she was looking, she served me two glasses of fresh buko juice.
I asked her “ilang taon na sa’yo ang maid mo?” She said four years.
Wow, ang bait nya siguro sa maid nya. I asked her “hindi mo sya pinapagalitan”.
Chat—– “Ay naku mam, hindi ko na lang sya pinapansin”.
Isa lang si Chat sa bahay, whole day sya wala. Sarap ng buhay nung maid nya. Hindi nga naglilinis.
Then she gave me lessons on how to handle maids. I spent another hour listening to her stories. I was supposed to go to another place, I got stuck.
Rule number one and the only rule:
NEVER EVER THINK THAT YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT MAIDS”.
This is Chat’s advice also to the patients at the hospital where she works. There are many pala that are brought there in the emergency room dahil nag-ko-collapse, na hihimatay sa galit o kunsumisyon sa maids nila. That vindicates me a little.
“Mam, may pasyente si doc, nito lang na-emergency dahil sa kunsumisyon nya sa katulong. Nahuli rin nila nagnanakaw yung maid. Kinuha yung 18,000 pesos sa cabinet nung anak nya”.
to be continued.
