I’m Watching You! (Manang’s new kalokohan)
Manang Linda, my ever reliable cleaning lady, is becoming less and less reliable. She almost broke my flush, for the second time. She squeezes my bras too much when she washes them, making them deformed. She broke my kitchen cabinet. She keeps eating my cupcakes. She keeps throwing away things I need and keeps keeping things I don’t need (she threw away a Meralco electric bill but kept a bus ticket she found on the floor)!
And yet, our arrangement is so convenient that I can’t afford to ditch Manang Linda.
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I used to have a poster of Batista on my ref door when I was still in my old condo. I had noticed then that everytime I came home after Manang cleaned the house, a fridge magnet would be covering Batista’s face. I thought then that maybe Manang didn’t like how Batista looks.
When I moved in to my new place, the movers threw away my Batista poster, so I just placed a baby picture of mine on the ref. When I got home one night after Manang cleaned up, I found MY face covered with a fridge magnet as well!!
So I set up an experiment…and here is what I found…
Before I left the house, my ref door looked like this:
