These days, it is so difficult to find a house maid. Even if we find one, we have to be at her beck & call.
She is rightly known as, ' Domestic Goddess. '
Our middle aged is very neat & clean & is truly worldly wise. The moment she enters our house, she is full of complaints about her aches & pains. But gradually, when you start asking about her neighbors, her daughter-in-law, her sons & last but not the least, her grand daughter, whom she adores, her tone changes.
Like a typical mother-in-law, she is critical about her son's wife. But when you ask her about her grand daughter, her eyes start shining. She starts imitating her grand daughter's dialogues & compares her with all the top heroines of Bollywood.
Her husband is a rickshaw puller. But he is a drunkard, though like a typical Indian housewife, she doesn't talk ill about him.
One of her sons is hardly earning, but she dreams of marrying him to an educated girl of a fairly good family.
Like a typical domestic help, she takes quite number of leave. But when she does so, she is sincere enough to inform us, that very day. Right early morning, when we are half asleep, our mobile starts ringing & obviously, we are not happy to receive the information that she is not coming. Then half heavyhearted, we have to clean the utensils & do other household chores, which normally are done by her.
Let me tell you about her efficiency, too.She is very fast & excellent at cutting vegetables.She cuts & washes spinach very promptly.
Very rarely, she refuses us any work. When we ask her to get something from the market, she willingly does so & with the leftover money, she is sometimes tempted to buy a toffee or sweet for her granddaughter. We gladly let her do so & sometimes, give her money to get something more for her grand daughter.
She has all the the gossip about her ' Mohalla' & entertains us, while describing the different characters, living near her house.
She loves having strong tea, laced with sugar. Still it is difficult to please her, while making ' her kind of tea.'
Another very interesting characteristic about her is that whenever we buy some vegetable from the nearby market, she twists her lips in a peculiar manner & says that she can get better stuff, from the market, near her house.
In conclusion, we can say that she is a very contented person, but aspires to make a better living for herself & her family.
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